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Overview

In 1889, the Coast Seaman's Union had its Seattle office at 424 Commercial Street (what became 1st Avenue South). (See R.L. Polk's Seattle City Directory, 1889, p. 158.) It was one of a handful of early unions organized to represent sailors in Pacific Coast port cities.

Building History

This labor organization formed on 03/06/1885 in San Francisco, CA, and changed its name to the Coast Seaman's Union in 1885. Early union official Andrew Furuseth (1854-1938) presided over the merger of the Coast Seaman's Union with the Steamship Sailor's Union to form the Sailors' Union of the Pacific (SUP) and remained active in it until his death. SUP has remains an affiliate of the larger Seafarers International Union of North America. In 2018, the SUP had branch offices operating in Wilmington, CA, Norfolk, VA, Honolulu, HI, and Seattle, WA.

This Seattle Coast Seaman's Union branch was an early office in the organization, and was located nearby to port activites.

Demolition

The office burned in the huge fire that swept through Seattle's Pioneer Square and Waterfront neighborhoods in 1889.

PCAD id: 22097