Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses - apartment houses
Designers: Bumgardner Architects (firm); Sellen, John H., Construction Company, Incorporated (firm); Albert Orin Bumgardner (architect); Raymond Chalker (engineer); Collins (engineer); Alan Grainger (architect); Chris Libby (architect); Putnam (engineer); Scott (engineer); John Henry Sellen Sr. (building contractor/civil engineer)
Dates: constructed 1983
22 stories, total floor area: 85,094 sq. ft.
Building History
Built between 08/1981-07/1983, the Watermark Tower utilized salvaged pieces of the nearby Puget Sound Mill Building (Bebb and Gould, 1924); the southeast corner of the new apartment building re-used some of the previous building's terra cotta sheathing on the first floor. The main entrance way, with its ornate door frame and pediment, was reused in its entirety.
Building Notes
This reinforced concrete tower has one of the more distinctive pinnacles in the Pike Place Neighborhood, with black, blue and brown Art Deco tile work stepping up and down the building's top floors. This 276-foot tower contains five office floors and 15 floors of condominiums, 85,094 gross square feet, 70,464 net. The lot covered 0.3 of an acre.
Tel: (206) 622-2670 (2005).
King County Assessor Number: 9197200000 Department of Assessments eReal Property GIS Center parcel report GIS Center parcel viewer GIS Center iMap viewer
PCAD id: 4776