Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - banks (buildings)
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: [unspecified]
Overview
In 1935, the North Coast Bank and Trust Company maintained its only Seattle location at 919 2nd Avenue, in the heart of the city's banking corridor on 2nd Avenue. At the time, most of the major banks operating in Seattle maintained their headquarters on 2nd Avenue; this included the Bank of California at 815 2nd Avenue, Canadian Bank of Commerce at 2nd Avenue and Cherry Street, Seattle 1st National Bank at 2nd Avenue and Cherry Street, National Bank of Commerce at 2nd Avenue and Spring Street, Pacific National Bank of Seattle at 2nd Avenue and Madison Street, Seattle Trust Company at 2nd Avenue and Columbia Street, and the Washington Mutual Savings Bank at 1101 2nd Avenue. Two Japanese banks, the Sumitomo Bank of Seattle and the Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., operated a block away at 802 3rd Avenue and 822 3rd Avenue, respectively. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1935, p. 1662.)
PCAD id: 20759