Building History

This building housed the Armour Meat Company in Seattle, WA. The Seattle Times stated in 1900 of the Armour Company buying tidelands south of Pioneer Square in 1900: "The establishment of Armour & Co.'s new cold storage plant in Seattle is a potent recognition of this city's future as a distributing point. Heretofore Portland has been used as a basis for distribution through the Northwest, but the present arrangement gives the Seattle storage plant more than double the capacity of the Portland plant, and it is from here that a great portion of the State of Washington will be supplied, all of Alaska. This latter business is assuming mammoth proportions and Seattle is fortunate in being selected as the base to supply this trade. The property on which the Armour building is being erected, is block 4, in Plumber's addition, on the tide flats. The block is 240 feet long on Eighth Avenue South and seventy feet on Plummer Street. the building will fill in part of the block, now occupied by floating shingles, thus improving the adjoining property. The Armour Company paid H.H. Dearborn & CO. $4600 for the property." (See "Real Estate News," Seattle Times, 03/31/1900, p. 13.)

PCAD id: 6039