Résumé

Principal, Matthew Dow, Contractor and Builder, Seattle, WA, c. 1890- ; in 1901, his office occupied Room 45 in the Colman Building.

Relocation

Matthew Dow, a native of Scotland, came to Ballard, WA, in 1889, just after the Great Fire of that year. The article, "The New Orpheum," spoke of Dow's fine reputation as a builder, saying "his twenty-one years' residence in Seattle and his name is a sufficient guarantee of excellence in the line of construction." (See "The New Orpheum," Town Crier, 05/20/1911, p. 7.) In 1901, he lived in a dwelling at Broadway and 2nd Avenue in what was the independent town of Ballard, WA.

Biographical Notes

The spelling of Dow's first name varied in different sources as "Mathew" and "Matthew."