Many of the wooden buildings destroyed in Seattle's 1889 fire were replaced with large, modern brick buildings. Businessman Henry Yesler commissioned the Pioneer Building on the site of his original Seattle home. At the time this photo was taken, the building housed insurance agents, a bank, law offices, a cigar store, and an agency which sold tickets to Alaska.The brick and stone building still stands at Pioneer Square.
<p>This photo, taken between 1897 and 1900, shows the Pioneer Building at the corner of First Avenue and James Street in Pioneer Square. Awnings shade some of the windows on the ground and upper floors. Earthquakes later weakened the tall tower above the front entrance, and the tower was removed sometime in the 1930s.
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<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Business districts; Office buildings; Pioneer Building (Seattle, Wash.)</li>
<li>People: Yesler, Henry L. (Henry Leiter), 1810-1892--Homes &amp; haunts</li></ul>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Anders_Beer_Wilse" class="extiw" title="w:en:Anders Beer Wilse"><span title="Norwegian photographer">Anders Beer Wilse</span></a>
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circa 1898 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1898-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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