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Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - corporate headquarters; built works - commercial buildings - office buildings
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: constructed 1874
2 stories
Overview
The Seattle Gazette, the city's first weekly newspaper, debuted in 1863. It became the Seattle Intelligencer in 1876, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer following a merge with the Seattle Post in 1881.
Building History
The pioneer lumber mill owner Henry Yesler (1810-1892) built this two-story, wood-frame building which, two years later, served as the office of the Seattle Intelligencer newspaper. It was a gable-roofed building with a false front, a common vernacular type in the Western Frontier. The first edition of the Seattle Intelligencer newspaper was printed 06/05/1876.
The Seattle Intelligencer also took on other printing jobs to add to its income.
PCAD id: 18196
