PCAD - Estabrook Building #1, Downtown, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings; built works - commercial buildings - stores

Exterior view of the Estabrook Building, Seattle, c. 1904; from the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division, Seattle Photograph Collection

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1336 2nd Avenue
Downtown, Seattle, WA 98101-2005

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The Estabrook Building was located on the southeast corner of 2nd Avenue and Union Street.

Overview

The three-story Estabrook Building had a Neo-classical exterior, and housed storefronts on its first floor, and offices above. In 1904, the Norris Safe and Lock Company and Cline's Piano House occupoed the prime storefronts. The building was demolished; The Seattle Symphony's Benaroya Hall occupied the site after 1997.

Building History

A note in the Seattle Daily Times in 03/1900 read: "The Estabrook is now nearly ready for occupancy." (See "Notes," Seattle Daily Times, 03/24/1900, p. 13.)

Building Notes

A presentation drawing by J.B. Bridges, Jr., dated 1899, showed the Chicago Furniture and Stove Company as the main tenant of the first floor retail space of the Estabrook Building #1.

In about 1904, Cline's Piano House and the Norris Safe and Lock Company occupied first-floor storefronts in the Estabrook Building #1.

PCAD id: 6142

Publications

"$700,000 City Building Projects Announced Seven-Story Department Store Planned", Seattle Daily Times, 10, 1922-10-01. Seattle of Today Architecturally, np, 1905.

Estabrook Building #1, Downtown, Seattle, WA (1900-1901) demolished

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