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On verso of image: Ramona. ca. 1903

• Subjects (LCTGM): Hotels--Washington (State)--Seattle; Utility poles--Washington (State)--Seattle; Cobblestone streets--Washington (State)--Seattle; Street railroad tracks--Washington (State)--Seattle
• Subjects (LCSH): Hotel Ramona (Seattle, Wash.); First Avenue (Seattle, Wash.); Seneca Street (Seattle, Wash.); Central business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle

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This building was built in 1889 by Guy C. Phinney and was originally known as the Phinney Block. Built very quickly after the fire it was completed and occupied that October. William E. Boone was the architect. The southernmost of a row of small hotels built just after the Great Seattle Fire along First Avenue between Seneca and University Streets, this was also the first to be demolished, with one sandstone column left attached the adjoining building. Until redevelopment of the entire block began for the current building, the Phinney Block site was last occupied by a small fenced playground. The others, out of frame to left, lasted into the 2010s (most of them much altered); all but the northernmost (the Diller, at the corner of University) are gone in 2019. A photo from the Seattle Public Library taken shortly after the building's demolition in 1975