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Building History

This was the location, a storefront leased for $25 at 1st Avenue and Cedar Street, of the first Bon Marche Department Store--operated by Edward and Josephine Nordhoff--in Downtown Seattle, WA. It then moved to its second location at 2nd Avenue and Pike Street in 1896. The third and final downtown store was located at 1601 3rd Avenue, which was built c. 1929.

Hahn Department Stores, a 29-store group, bought the Bon Marche in 1929. Federated Department Stores, a holding Company composed of the Bon Marche, Hahn, Abraham and Straus (A & S), of Brooklyn, NY, Filene's, Boston, MA, and F and R. Lazarus and Company, emerged in 1929, as well.

Building Notes

The founders of the Bon Marche, Edward and Josephine Nordhoff settled in Seattle in 1890. They operated this location for approximately 6 years, from 1890-1896. They, like the originators of the Frederick and Nelson Department Store, began operations in the wake of the Great Fire of 1889 that refashioned the face of Seattle's Downtown.

Demolition

This building was razed in the 1980s.

PCAD id: 6243