Seattle Historical Sites

This two-story building with exterior concrete walls has a flat roof and parapet. Its footprint is 120’ by 150’, with the short dimension facing 4^th Avenue South. The original interior structure is heavy timber. The main façade is divided into five bays, marked by engaged concrete piers. These are expressed on the exterior of the facade by angled caps at the same level as the top of the second floor windows. The engaged piers, which flank the end bays, extend up to the parapet level and each end in an angled shape. There are several reveals below the parapet coping as well as a long, inset rectangular shape over the three central bays. This used to hold a sign for Henry Disston & Sons, Inc.

Below the parapet, each bay has one large window opening at the second level. At the ground level, the same is true, except in the case of the central entrance. Windows at the second level were once multi-pane sash, but this is no longer the case. Original photos, although not entirely clear, suggest that the same was true for the ground level window openings. Each opening is framed by brick veneer trim, while the rest of the façade appears to have been given a skim coat of stucco.

The longer elevation, which faces a parking lot, has seven bays. The first bay close to 4^th Avenue South resembles its neighbor on the main façade: engaged piers, which extend to the parapet level, brick trim around the window openings, stucco coating over the areas of the wall that do not have brick trim. The rest of the elevation is much simpler, with few engaged piers expressed, as well as replacement windows. Part of the interest of this elevation, which is a secondary one, was the multi-pane steel sash windows, but these have been replaced.