PCAD - Boone and Willcox, Architects

Exterior photo of the New York Building, Seattle, WA, 1910. Photo by Asahel Curtis, University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Asahel Curtis Photo Company Collection no. 482, Item #CUR797, accessed 12/06/2023

Exterior view of the Frink Building, also called the Washington Shoe Manufacturing Company Building, Seattle, WA, 1892 (Photo by Joe Mabel)

Exterior view of the New York Building, Seattle, c. 1920; from HistoryLink.org and the Tacoma Public Library

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William Ely Boone, William H. Willcox

Active 1890-1892

Firm Notes

Boone and Willcox practiced together in Seattle, WA. Boone was the established practictioner in Seattle, but Willcox re-energized his practice with new ideas brought from back East. Willcox landed in Seattle just after the 1889 Fire, when so many migrated to the city to find work. They had an office in Rooms #58 and #59 of the Boston Building in Seattle in 1891. (See R.L. Polk's Seattle Directory Company's Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1891, p. 173.)

PCAD id: 3885

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Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Frink, John M., Building, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA	1891-1892	Seattle	WA
New York Building, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA	1890-1892	Seattle	WA
University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Administration and Belles Lettres Building Project, Seattle, WA	1891	Seattle	WA

Publications

Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, "Seeing Richardson in His Time: The Problem of the Romanesque Revival", H.H. Richardson The Architect, His Peers and Their Era, 126, 1999. "Three Fine Buildings Almost Finished", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 5, 04/02/1892. "To Foreclose on the Building", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 5, 03/24/1895. Dorpat Paul,, "Now & Then: The Romanesque Empire", Seattle Sunday Times, 23, 2003-03-09.

Boone and Willcox, Architects (Partnership)

Buildings and other works

Publications