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AKA: Unico Properties, LLC, Henry Building, Downtown, Seattle, WA
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings
Designers: Howells and Stokes, Architects (firm); Metropolitan Building Company, Developers (firm); Seattle Cornice Works (firm); Stone and Webster, Incorporated (firm); Unico Properties, Incorporated (firm); Abraham Horace Albertson (architect); John Francis Douglas Sr. (developer); John Mead Howells (architect); Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (architect)
Dates: constructed 1908-1909
Building History
This office building and its conjoined neighbors, the White and Stuart Buildings, were built for the Metropolitan Building Company, a major developer of Downtown Seattle, WA, in the 1900s-1910s. Metropolitan created an ambitious Beaux-Arts master plan for a tract vacated by the University of Washington, which moved to its lakeside location in 1895. The Metropolitan Tract Plan consisted of a theater, hotel, stores and several office buildings set in a symmetrical plan, with a park, University Plaza, gracing its center.
Building Notes
Part of the conjoined White-Henry-Stuart complex of office and retail buildings in the Metropolitan Tract constructed between 1907-1915.
In 1924, the architectural firm of Howells and Albertson had its office in Room #727 of the Henry Building.
Demolished; Unico Properties had the Henry Building torn down in 1974 to make way for Rainier Plaza.
PCAD id: 6083
