File:2nd Ave, looking north from Cherry St, ca 1913 (SEATTLE 3080).jpg
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English: 2nd Ave., looking north from Cherry St., ca. 1913 |
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English: This photo predates August of 1914, and should be 1913. You may be able to verify this through buildings, but I was looking at the clocks on 2nd Avenue. I am looking at the clocks. There is a clock with a dark face at 1010 2nd, which is on the right side of the street near a streetcar and adjacent to a "United Cigars" sign. This clock belonged to L. L. Moore, who shut down and liquidated in 1913. Albert Hansen moved here in 1914, and put a different clock in its place. You can see that clock in an 8/1914 photo at the Seattle Municipal Archives #43364. So this could be after the metal superstructure was put up in 1913, and could possibly be in 1914 but certainly is before August. (Note per researcher 1/2013) Shows the Hoge Building on 2nd and Cherry st. On verso of image: North on Second Avenue from Smith Tower, 1920s ?
This would be a view from the Smith Tower while it was still under construction. According to a postcard clearly based on this photograph, the picture is indeed 1913 and was taken by Frank H. Nowell. That makes sense, because Nowell took a series of photos documenting the construction of the Smith Tower. |
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Depicted place | Seattle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1913 date QS:P571,+1913-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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Order Number InfoField | SEA1483 |
Annotations InfoField | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
Hoge Building, still extant 2019
American Savings Bank and Empire Building. (sign says "Empire Building")
Burke Building
Alaska Building, still extant 2019
sign: "Mehlhorn Building | Offices [Matson Navigation] Co. | Alexander and Baldwin Ltd. | Marine & Fire Insurance". Building still extant, 2019.
"Matson Navigation" is not really clear in this photo but can be seen plainly in File:Seattle - Repaving work at 2nd and Columbia, 1914.jpg
sign: "The Right Hotel | Rates 50¢ to $150 "
sign: "Billiards"
sign: "The Post Telegraph Building"
Colman Building, still extant 2019
sign: "Arlington Dock Co." Pier 4 (since 1944: Pier 55)
sign: "Milwaukee Pier No. 6" (since 1944: Pier 57)
sign on skyway: "Virginia Dock & Warehouse Co."
Lenora Street viaduct
sign: "Washington Mattress Co."
Schwabacher Dock (Schwabacher's Wharf)
Pier 8 (since 1944, Pier 59)
The "stubby" Salt & Fish Docks
Pier 5 (since 1944: Pier 56)
sign: "Cecil Hotel". This and the other buildings in this block on this side of First Avenue are all still extant as of 2019, and are combined into the Alexis Hotel.
largely illegible sign, includes the name "Forsyth"
sign: "Spokane Grain Co."
sign, not entirely legible, appears to be for Frank Waterhouse.
multiple signs, not readily legible
sign "Pacific [illegible] C[o]" At lower left appears to say "Ship Chandler". Lower right not legible.
sign: "Fischer Brothers"
sign "[Fe]ed & Grain City Mills."
sign: "Galbraith Bacon & Co." This is the Wall Street Pier; after 1944, Pier 67, torn down to build the 1962 hotel now known as The Edgewater.
Great Northern piers at Smith Cove. These were later Pier 89 & 90; this area is now filled land, the present-day piers 91 & 92 are west of these.
sign: C.C. Belknap Glass Co.
sign not legible, appears to be a sand & gravel pier
The adjoined Gaffney & Virginia Docks; since 1944, Piers 63 & 63.
sign: "Standard Furniture Co." This is the Broadacres Building, still extant 2019.
sign: "Hotel Nelson". Later Wayne Apartments, Commodore Hotel. Demolished 2008.
Star Tobacco ad
Star Tobacco ad
sign "Hotel Newport" (this was at 1411 1/2 1st Ave.); ad between that not fully legible but seems to be "Export Cigars 5¢".
sign: "Sanitary Public Market". Part of Pike Place Market, still extant 2019.
1909 Washington (state) National Guard Armory
Corner Market Building, Pike Place Market, still extant 2019. Here, with Bull Durham tobacco add on rooftop billboard.
signs: "Hotel Oxford"; the building is still extant in 2019
sign: "Morris", presumably a hotel. To its right is a Coca-Cola ad.
sign: "Toys"
Moore Theatre & Hotel and New Washington Hotel (now Josephinum), both still extant 2019.
water tank with sign for "The Bon Marché"
sign: "Seattle Dry Goods Co | Wholesale"
sign: "Hotel Diller". The Diller is still extant, 2019; with various demolitions in the 2010s, it is the only older building remaining on its block.
sign "J.J. Kelley | Fancy Liquor Store" The rest of the sign is illegible.
illegible sign (at left) and sign just saying "Hotel"
ad for Export Cigars
sign: "Lumber"
sign: "Grand Pacific Hotel" & Owl Cigar ad
sign not readily legible
sign not readily legible, includes "…CRUS…" and the word "office"
sign: "Northwest Fixture Co. | Cart Bros. West …"
sign: "Frederick — & — N[elson] — Entrance 2[nd] Ave."
sign: "Bank | Union Savings and Trust"
engraved: "Haller Building"
sign: "United Cigars"
sign: "Florsheim Shoe"
Partially legible sign, possible "Stone Bros."
sign: "Cafeteria"
illegible circular sign
illegible sign
sign: "Thompson's Cafe | Watches & Jewelry"
A tiny bit of the Stetson-Post Block (which would have been in its last years) poking out.
sign: "812"
sign: "Stratford". We can see from File:Potlatch parade - 1911.jpg that this was the farthest north sign on the Stetson-Post Block.
several illegible signs, presumably the "Diner" and "Grill" signs visible in File:Potlatch parade - 1911.jpg
Rainier Beer ad
Denny School in the distance
sign: "The Bon Marché"
signs for Hotel Savoy. The Savoy lasted into the 1980s and was demolished to build Benaroya Hall (the symphony hall).
This entire block is now (2019) the Seattle Art Museum and Russell Investments Center (which share a building).
sign, not fully legible, appears to say "Fraser", probably Fraser-Paterson who built a building on this site in the late 1920s.
sign: "Garvey Buchanan Wholes[ale]". There is some other text between "Garvey" and "Buchanan", not readily legible
sign: "Toys"
back of sign, appears to include the word "Trunk".
sign: "United Cigars". Quite a few less legible signs near this.
sign: "Piano"
sign: "Pantages"
sign: "Stephen[… illegible]"
sign: "Hats"
several signs in this area, none readily legible.
sign: "Olympia"
This is the L. L. Moore clock referred to in the description.
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