Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - stores
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: [unspecified]
Overview
This multi-story commercial building was in operation by at least 1908.
Building History
The Century Furniture Company, Incorporated, operated at 1101 2nd Avenue in 1908.
By 1939, the Washington Mutual Savings Bank had its headquarters at 1101 2nd Avenue. (See Washington Mutual ad, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 03/26/1939, p. 6HS.) In 1939, Washington Mutual Savings Bank's Board of Trustees included: L.C. Gilman, Retired Vice-President of the Great Northern Railway Company, Volney Richmond, President of the Northern Commercial Company, Raymond Frazier, Chairman of the Board, Dietrich Schmitz, President, Claude A. Philbrick, Vice-President of the Seattle-First National Bank, William L. Rhodes, President, Rhodes Brothers Company, C.L. Engtvedt, President of the Boeing Airplane Company, Roy E. Campbell, Executive Vice-President of Arden Farms Company, S.L. Barnes, a manufacturer, Alexander F. McEwan, President of the Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company, Paul Pigott, President of the Pacific Car and Foundry Company, Willis S. Darrow, Vice-President, W.V. Tanner, Lawyer of Tanner and Garvis, and Stuart C. Frazier, Vice-President.
Demolition
This commercial building was razed. A bank building at this address was designed by Seattle architect Paul Thiry in the 1960s.
PCAD id: 23152