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One-term Seattle Mayor Beriah Brown (1815-1900), co-founder of Seattle's Puget Sound Dispatch newspaper in 1871, lived at this address in 1890. Brown, a friend of the great New York newspaper editor Horace Greeley, was a passionate defender of civil rights, defending an Afircan-American student at the University of Washington against attacks or joining Seattle's Volunteer Home Guard, a citizen's group dedicated to helping police protect local Chinese-Americans from mob attacks. He served as the city's ninth Mayor in 1878-1879; he was the tenth in sequence, but ninth different person to occupy the job, as stone mason John T. Jordan served twice, 1871-1872, 1873.

Brown's residence occupied a hilltop above the King County Courthouse.

Demolished;

PCAD id: 16509