Pioneer Building (Seattle, Washington)

Title: Pioneer Building (Seattle, Washington)
LC Subject: Architecture, American Architecture--United States
Creator: Fisher, Elmer H.
Photographer: Shellenbarger, Michael
Creator Display: Elmer H. Fischer (architect, c. 1840-1905)
Description: National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 1977)
View: exterior
Provenance: Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Temporal: 1890-1899 1900-1909
Style Period: Queen Anne Style Shingle Style
Work Type: architecture (object genre) built works views (visual works) exterior views office buildings
Latitude: 47.605407
Longitude: -122.336894
Location: King County >> Washington >> United States Washington >> United States United States Seattle >> King County >> Washington >> United States
Street Address: 600-610 1st Avenue
Date: 1892/1909
View Date: 1979/1989
Identifier: pna_15624.jpg
Item Locator: Shellenbarger Collection, K:17 99-05892
Rights: In Copyright
Rights Holder: University of Oregon
Source: Gift of Michael Shellenbarger
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Set: Building Oregon
Primary Set: Building Oregon
Is Part Of: Pioneer Square (Seattle, Washington)
Institution: University of Oregon
Note: The Pioneer Building helps mark the heart of Seattle's early commercial development. It stands on the ground where Henry Yesler established the first sawmill of the area in 1853, thereby providing the city with its initial industrial base. He sold the land in the late 1880s, just before the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 turned the downtown into ashes. The foundation for the new Pioneer Building had already been excavated by the time fire swept through the city, but the ensuing construction crunch slowed the completion of the Pioneer Building. When it was completed in 1892, this beautiful building of red brick and terra cotta was arguably the finest of the 60 "fireproof" Richardsonian-Romanesque designs created by architect Elmer H. Fisher. Source: National Register Nomination