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This venerable menswear store operated in Seattle from the 1880s into the 1910s. The firm moved into its seventh home on 03/01/1903 in the newly opened Lumber Exchange Building an office/retail building that had all of its spaces leased before construction was completed in 02/1903.

Following the Great Seattle Fire of 06/06/1889, clothier Paul Singerman (1847-1915) founded this clothing store in 1892, six months after the sale of his first apparel business, Toklas, Singerman and Company, to a business associate, J.B. MacDougall, and his partner, Henry C. Southwick. Singerman's post-1892 store was also known as "Toklas Singerman and Company" and it operated just to the south (about 707 1st Avenue) of the MacDougall and Southwick Store at 713 1st Avenue. This Toklas, SIngerman and Company store opened in the newly finished Lumber Exchange Building on 03/01/1903, and it operated at this address until at least 1911. Toklas, Singerman and Company

PCAD id: 17858