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AKA: First National Bank of Seattle, Headquarters Building #1, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA; Mutual Life Building, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - banks (buildings); built works - commercial buildings - office buildings
Designers: Blackwell, James Eustace, Architect (firm); Fisher, Elmer, H., Architect (firm); Olson / Walker Architects (firm); James Eustace Blackwell (architect); Elmer Horace Fisher (architect); James William Park Olson (architect); Gordon Kendall Walker (architect)
Dates: constructed 1890-1897
6 stories
Overview
Located at 601-607 1st Avenue, this large office building housing the Seattle 1st National Bank Building #2 was owned by three Euro-American pioneers Henry Yesler (1810-1892), George W. Harris (1848-1914) and John Leary (1837-1905). Harris had incorporated the bank in 1882 on this parcel, whose first office was situated in the Yesler-Leary Building (destroyed in the Great Fire of 1889). Yesler and later landowners completed construction of the building incrementally between 1890 and 1897.
Building History
In 1892, the 1st National Bank of Seattle operated on the northwest corner of Front Street (later renamed "1st Avenue") and Yesler Way. In that year, J.H. McGraw was its president, and Lester Turner, its cashier. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1892, p. 370.)
Alteration
The 1st National Bank Building underwent remodeling and addition in 1916.
The Seattle architectural firm of Olson / Walker Architects supervised a large-scale renovation of the Mutual Life Building beginning in 1984.
PCAD id: 22226
