Overview

The George W. Harris Company Bank, formed in 1882, became the Seattle 1st National Bank one year later. It occupied space in the Yesler-Leary Block for about seven years, before the building perished in the Great Fire of 06/06/1889. It was replaced by the Seattle 1st National Bank Building #2 (aka the Mutual Life Building) in 1891.

Building History

The MA-born banker George W. Harris (1848-1914) founded his eponymous bank in 1882, and quickly petitioned for a national charter which he received shortly in 1883. He located his first bank in the Yesler-Leary Block, a design by pioneer architects Boone and Wilcox, that was destroyed in the Seattle Fire of 06/06/1889. In 1884, Harris served as the bank's president, assisted by W.R. Wadleigh, cashier. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1884, p. 101.)

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