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Pioneer Square (Seattle, Wash.), First Avenue South, street elevation, east side between South Main and Jackson Streets
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| Title | Pioneer Square (Seattle, Wash.), First Avenue South, street elevation, east side between South Main and Jackson Streets |
| Architects | Boone, William E., 1830-1921
Corner, James N., 1862-1919
Breitung, Carl Alfred, 1868- |
| Artist | Steinbrueck, Victor |
| Client | Marshall, Ezekiel L.
Walker, Cyrus, 1827-1913 |
| Date of Drawing Execution | 1969 |
| Object Type | Architectural drawings |
| Physical Description | Ink and graphite on tracing paper: 46 x 61 cm. |
| Building Street Address | 310-322 1st Avenue S. |
| Building Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Purpose | Record drawings
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| Representation | Elevations
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| Descriptive Notes | Handwritten in title block:
First Avenue South
Handwritten beneath drawing:
So. Main St.
Globe Hotel
Nord Hotel
Walker Building
Capitol Brewing Co. [Jackson]
So. Jackson St.
Signed by artist:
[copyright] Victor Steinbrueck 1969 |
| Building Style | Chicago School
Queen Anne Style
Richardsonian Romanesque
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| Building Notes | Architect, educator, and artist Victor Steinbrueck helped foster responsible civic development though his efforts in promoting revitalization programs for the city of Seattle. Along with many others, Steinbrueck's work to raise awareness of Seattle's historic and architectural significance resulted in the city's adoption of historic preservation ordinances, including the one that made Pioneer Square the city's first National Register district in 1970. These drawings were part of a study he conducted of that area in the late 1960s, early 1970s. The Globe Building was designed by William E. Boone in 1890-1891 as the Marshall-Walker Block. The two portions of the building were jointly developed by Ezekiel L. Marshall and Cyrus Walker, who separated their respective portions with a brick wall. The structure was designed for warehouse use and to carry heavy loads; but the north half of the building originally had fifty separate offices. In the 1890s, it was converted to the Windsor Hotel and in 1898, renamed the Globe Hotel. The upper floors operated as a hotel until the 1960s and housed a saloon from 1891 and quilt company from 1926 to the 1970s on the ground floors. The Marshall-Walker/ Globe Building is an interesting combination of the grid-like tendencies of Victorian architecture, with many elements of Chicago School architecture: the strong base, middle and top (now gone), the wide arches in rusticated stone and repeated bays. The Nord Hotel was erected in 1890 and is significant both architecturally and as an early post-fire building. It combines repeated arched openings with the typical Victorian grid. The Walker Building was designed by Boone & Corner in 1904-5 for Cyrus Walker. In the drawing, the building retains the signage of one of its original tenants, the Seattle Quilt Manufacturing Company. Cyrus Walker was the head of the Puget Mill Company in Port Ludlow and Pope & Talbot Lumber Company. The Jackson Building, which originally housed the Capitol Brewing and Malting Company, was built in 1900 and designed by Carl Breitung. Although built as a utilitarian building, it is an elegant Renaissance Revival building. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Elevations |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Pioneer Square (Seattle, Wash.); Commercial buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle--Designs and plans |
| Digital Collection | Architecture Collection
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| Digital ID Number | ARC0513
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| Ordering Information | Restrictions apply to the ordering of this image. Please contact photos@u.washington.edu for more information. |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Victor Steinbrueck Collection |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2006. |
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