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Beginning on 03/06/1899, the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company main offices in Seattle, WA, were located at 1108 3rd Avenue. Sunset began as a subsidiary of the Bell Telephone conglomerate in the early 1880s, leasing an office from the Western Union Telegraph Company. Sunset provided long distance service initially, but got into local service by at least 1906; it grew rapidly, having 318 Seattle customers in 1889 to 3,612 in 1899. By 1910, the firm served 28,527 telephones in the city. Over time, the Bell Telephone Company bought up most small, independent telephone companies serving major cities. By 1912, it had renamed its Seattle operations from the Sunset name to the "Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company." Bell's consolidation of local companies became complete by 1916, when all operations owned on the Pacific Coast were listed under the "Pacific Telephone and Telegraph" name.

PCAD id: 18108