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<p>Visible buildings include the New England Building, the Kenneth Hotel, the Empire Building, the Lowman Building, the Hoge Building, the Olympic Block, Hotel Seward, the Lyon Building, the Grand Opera House, Hotel Seattle, the Elks Building, and Saint James Cathedral. General view of Seattle downtown skyline, looking N.E. from near waterfront south of Pioneer Square. Catholic Cathedral on hill at extreme right, Hotel Seward below, Elks Building + Hoge Building in center, Lowman + Hanford office supplies, safe Kenneth Hotel, Olympia Beer sign. Note dome between twin towers of Cathedral which collapsed under now load in 1916 and was not rebuilt.
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Photo appears to be from the Schwabacher Hardware Company Building, built at the southwest corner of First and Jackson in 1906 and still extant in 2022 as part of Merrill Place Condominiums. "Elks Building" is misleading here, this is the Alaska Building, where the BPOE were based before their own building was built. Also: the Orpheum Theatre at Third &amp; Madison, visible here, opened in 1911, so the date is probably just a little later than Seattle Public Library thought.</div>
1910<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15015coll4/id/3555">Record in source catalog</a></li>
<li>DPLA identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/item/de05dc9d43103dd71200248fc8ab6a02">de05dc9d43103dd71200248fc8ab6a02</a></li>
<li>Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_gpn_180</li></ul></span>