Original caption: "The Oriental American Bank Building, Seattle". This was at Fifth and Main. The first 3 floors were built in 1904 by the Oriental Development Company, the 4th floor was added in 1905. Thompson &amp; Thompson were the architects.
credited to H.T. Furuhata of the "The North American Times", which was a Seattle-based Japanese newspaper.
1909
<i>The Coast</i> magazine, November 1909, Volume XVIII, Number 5, p. 253, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0LARAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=RA2-PA200&amp;lpg=RA2-PA200&amp;dq=magazine+%22Coast+Publishing%22+Seattle+Alaska&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=0d8lI_LC8j&amp;sig=jpdcxZ5yWjQqoc-fzvLPMcWtqUo&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=6gmYS42-EonUMu2oxHo&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=4&amp;ved=0CBcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&amp;q=magazine%20%22Coast%20Publishing%22%20Seattle%20Alaska&amp;f=false">accessed</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books" class="extiw" title="w:Google Books">Google Books</a>.