File:Seattle - G.O. Guy - 1900.jpg

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This is an image of a building or other location within the Pioneer Square-Skid Road Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district has been successively enlarged, and hence has multiple NRHP IDs: 70000086, 78000341, and 88000739

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Page 150 of brochure Seattle and the Orient (1900). This page includes text plus a photo captioned "Property of Yesler Estate, Incorporated. / Intersection of Yesler Way and Second Avenue." The buildings are still there in 2007, though much altered. The building front and center is the Metropole Building (originally H. K. Owens Building), which according to some sources was built some time before the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 (which it survived), though the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods says it was built "between 1892 and 1893". This was the first G.O. Guy drugstore (see en:G. O. Guy), where, a year or so after this photo was taken, on June 25, 1901 just-fired Seattle police chief William L. Meredith tried to shoot vaudeville/burlesque/"box house" theater owner John Considine, missed, and was shot by Considine.[1] [2] [3] [4]

The building was severely damaged by a fire May 21, 2007, but the exterior walls appear to be intact.

Visible signs in photo say:

  • On wall of building at left: "Exclusively / Park & Tilford" (those last four letters are partially obscured and are slightly conjectural, but Park & Tilford was a distillery.)
  • Lettering on the awning at left is only partly legible, but ends in "rty".
  • Lettering over next awning says "[illegible] Market". Other pictures of the building show this as the Yakima Market.
  • Lettering on the window to the left of the main arched entrance says "London / Loan Office" and gives the address 103. There is some smaller, illegible lettering.
  • Lettering over the remaining windows says "G.O. Guy Ph. G. Leading Druggist." There are several signs in the store window, but they seem just below the level of legibility. The word "Electric" can be made out near the top of the column at the corner, but I can't read the rest of it.
  • At the top of the building behind at right (now known as the Interurban Building, also known at times as the "Seattle National Bank Building", "Pacific Block", and "Smith Tower Annex" [5]), it appears to say "S. Dent Deposit and Auxiliary Savings Bank". One floor down, it says "Homer M. Hill Publishing Co."
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p. 150 of Seattle and the Orient (more properly, Seattle …and the… Orient), a 1900 "souvenir" pamphlet edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen and published by The Times Printing Company (that is, the Seattle Times).

Scanned at 300 dpi; images cleaned up using Picture Publisher's "remove pattern" feature.
Author Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen. The photo is uncredited.
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