PCAD - Kline and Rosenberg Company, Store Building, South Washington Street, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings; built works - commercial buildings - stores

Washington Street
Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA 98104

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South side of Washington Street between Commercial Street and Occidental Avenue South.

According to Jeffrey Karl Ochsner and Dennis Alan Andersen, this Kline Rosenberg Building was one of the earliest of several erected following the Seattle Fire of 06/06/1889. Designed by the Seattle firm of Towle and Wilcox, this building did not last long.

Demolished; due to improper foundation work, one of the walls sank causing a collapse, requiring the demolition of the building, perhaps as early as 04/1890. Ochsner and Andersen wrote in their book, Distant Corner: "...it was at a location where the sawdust may have extended to twenty-five feet below grade. Apparently, the piles under the building were not deep enough and gave way beneath the weight of one of the walls." (See Jeffrey Karl Ochsner and Dennis Alan Andersen, Distant Corner, [Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003], p. 343, footnote #77.)

PCAD id: 18209

Kline and Rosenberg Company, Store Building, South Washington Street, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA (1889)