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AKA: Group Health Cooperative, Administrative and Conference Center
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings
Designers: Lockwood Greene Engineers, Incorporated (firm); Naramore, Bain, Brady, and Johanson, (NBBJ) (firm); William James Bain Sr. (architect); Clifton J. Brady (architect); Stephen Greene (civil engineer); Perry Bertil Johanson (architect); Amos DeForest Lockwood (engineer); Floyd Archibald Naramore (architect)
Dates: constructed 1947-1948
The Group Health Cooperative moved into the old newspaper building in 1987; designed by New York-based Lockwood-Greene, Architects, with the local assistance of NBBJ Group; Caterina Provost, "Henry W. Bittman," in Shaping Seattle Architecture, Jeffrey Ochsner, ed., (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1994), p. 196, indicated that Henry W. Bittman was "...an associate architect and resident engineer for the new Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building (1947, now altered for use by Group Health), designed by Lockwood and Greene Engineers of New York City." This information is repeated in the appendix, "Locations of Extant Buildings and Projects Presented in the Text," p. 319.
A large neon globe sign bearing the P-I initials stood on the rounded corner of this building from 1948-1988; this globe was moved to a prominent location on the Post-Intelligencer's new offices on Elliot Way, Seattle, WA; remodeling and an addition of an upper story occurred in 1978;
PCAD id: 3109
