English: The Cascade Laundry Building at Main Street and Second Avenue Extension South in the 1930s, showing the clashing styles of Edwin Houghton's original 1900 design and the 1928 facade created by the new street alignment. Cascade Laundry was established by H.E. Stumer in the 1880s, and later Corliss P. Stone bought an interest. After the fire Stone and his nephew Fred H. Kilbourne (brother of Charles & Dr. E.C. Kilbourne) bought out Stumer's interest and put Charles in charge. In 1899 they purchased this property from George Kinnear and commissioned Edwin W. Houghton to design a 3-story utilitarian building that they would fully occupy. After absorbing several other laundries in the 1920s they became the largest commercial laundry in Seattle and with the proposed Second Avenue Extension about to make their building even smaller, they completed its reconstruction in 1928 while beginning construction of a new building in South lake Union at Fairview and Thomas Streets, now known as the Troy Laundry Building. Later on their old building was known as the Postal Telegraph Building, a name their previous building at 1st Ave & Columbia St continued to use even after their departure. They shared this building with the Sportcraft Knitting Co. who made sweaters and coats and wholesale druggist John Wyeth & Company. The top 2 floors were removed after the 1949 earthquake, and the remains were occupied by a restaurant until the 1960s. The building has been vacant for decades and has been slowly collapsing from the inside with multiple attempts at redevelopment falling through.