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Building History

The Gottstein Family, who had sold liquor and cigars in Seattle since the 1880s, owned the Gottstein Building #2 between 1903 and the imposition of Prohibition in Washington State in 1916. In 1889, Meyer Gottstein and his brother Kassel operated their profitable liquor and cigar business in a building on the southeast corner of 1st Avenue and Columbia Street. (See Polk's Seattle Directory Company's Seattle City Directory, 1889, p. 517.)

After the Gottsteins vacated, the North Pacific Banknote Company occupied space at 206 1st Avenue South. The City Loan Company later owned the building.