but "white" (actually very light gray) brick throughout was chosen instead, an unusual choice for the time, and a trendsetting one. It was also unusual (though not unique) for its time in having electric (rather than hydraulic) elevators. Used in its early years for a series of wholesale businesses (including Roy & Company, H N. Richmond and Company and John B. Agen), its floors were designed to carry loads of 250 pounds per square foot. The National Grocery Company occupied space in the building until moving into the much larger National Building at Western Avenue and Madison Street in 1904, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Union Trust Building and most of Squire's Pioneer Square property would be purchased shortly after his 1897 death by New York banker and industrialist Lyman Cornelius Smith who would eventually build the famous Smith Tower. The building today is largely intact, although it is missing part of its original parapet. This was most likely caused by the 1949 Olympia earthquake which damaged many buildings in the Pioneer Square district. The Union Trust Annex The adjacent Union Trust Annex (1900–1901) continues a similar design. Brothers Paul and Michael James Heney commissioned Saunders and Lawton to design a building matching the Union Trust Building in November 1900. M.J. Heney was a contractor in the Yukon who had been responsible for building most of the White Pass and Yukon Route from Skagway to Whitehorse and used the profits from that project to invest in Seattle property. The name Union Trust Annex dates only from the 1970s. It was built for Ernest Thurlow, and was intended for his Superior Candy and Cracker Company; the Seattle Cracker and Candy Company was already operating in the adjacent Union Trust Building. Superior Candy and Cracker Company occupied the entire annex building from March 1901 to 1915. Unlike the Union Trust Building, the Union Trust Annex retains all of its original parapet. The Union Trust Annex was the original home of the Seattle Unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, opening in 1979 after several years of work. That move one block south and one block east in 2005 to new quarters in the former Cadillac Hotel. Notes Commercial buildings completed in 1893 Commercial buildings in Seattle Pioneer Square, Seattle 1893 establishments in Washington (state)