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The Metropolitan Building Company had erected the Neyhart Building on the southeast corner of 4th Avenue and University Street by 1916. A notice in the Seattle Sunday Times of 03/28/1915 stated: "The construction of a new one-story building on the Metropolitan tract at University Place and Fourth Avenue, west of the Metropolitan Theatre, was announced last week by the Metropolitan Building Company, lessees of the tract. The building will be on the site where the Kennedy Hotel Company formerly contemplated erecting a hotel. It will be known as the Neyhart Building and will provide for ten or twelve stories. It will have a frontage of seventy-two feet on University Place and of 165 feet on Fourth Avenue. The completion of the structure will transform what was formerly an attractive park into a thriving business center." (See "New Store Building on University Tract," Seattle Sunday Times, 03/28/1915, p. 21.)

Demolished; the Olympic Hotel was erected on the block bounded by University Street on the north, 4th Avenue on the west, Seneca Street on the south, and 5th Avenue on the east. The Neyhart Building stood on this site for no more than 10 years, probably less.

PCAD id: 14793