Historic Name: |
G & H Investment Corporation |
Common Name: |
Trade-Marx Sign & Displat Corporation |
Style: |
Other - Utilitarian |
Neighborhood: |
Duwamish |
Built By: |
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Year Built: |
1960 |
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Significance |
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Plat: South Seattle Addition, Block: 9, Lot: Portion
This simple utilitarian building dates from 1960. It was built for the G & H Investment Company. Photos from 1960 suggest that the building has, in fact, changed little since that time, although windows have been replaced. The building was constructed on the site of a wooden shed and storage building, built during the mid-1910s and owned by the Seattle Brick and Tile Company.
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Appearance |
This warehouse building has a modified T-shape plan, which includes a very large rectangular warehouse portion with concrete walls and few openings other than services entrances, as well as a smaller attached two-story office wing, also rectangular in plan. The warehouse is one story, but the same height as the office wing. The office wing has a similar design on the east and west elevations, primarily characterized by two levels of repeated rectangular window openings. There is also a utilitarian entry, accessed by steps, on the west elevation. Currently the building is painted in a colorful combination of blue-green and yellow with a red and yellow angled stripe motif on the coping. |
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