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Pioneer Building (Seattle, Washington)

Creator Display
  • Elmer H. Fischer (architect, c. 1840-1905)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • 1892/1909
Description
  • National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 1977)
View
  • exterior
View Date
  • 1979/1989
Temporal
  • 1890-1899
  • 1900-1909
MODS Note
  • The Pioneer Building helps mark the heart of Seattle's early commercial development. It stands on the ground where Henry Yesler established the first sawmill of the area in 1853, thereby providing the city with its initial industrial base. He sold the land in the late 1880s, just before the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 turned the downtown into ashes. The foundation for the new Pioneer Building had already been excavated by the time fire swept through the city, but the ensuing construction crunch slowed the completion of the Pioneer Building. When it was completed in 1892, this beautiful building of red brick and terra cotta was arguably the finest of the 60 "fireproof" Richardsonian-Romanesque designs created by architect Elmer H. Fisher. Source: National Register Nomination
Subject
Work Type
Style / Period
Location
Street Address
  • 600-610 1st Avenue
GPS Latitude
  • 47.605407
GPS Longitude
  • -122.336894
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon
Identifier
  • pna_15624.jpg
Item Locator
  • Shellenbarger Collection, K:17 99-05892
Source
  • Gift of Michael Shellenbarger
Provenance
  • Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Is Part Of
  • Pioneer Square (Seattle, Washington)
Institution
Conversion
  • This image is derived from a master TIFF (3000 x 5000 pixel, 16 bit) created by scanning a 35m slide which remains as the archival artifact. Digital editing may have included cropping, color correction, and removal of dust, scratch, or other artifacts reproduced in the scanning process.
Submission Date
  • 05/04/2015
Modified
  • 08/11/2022
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Fisher, Elmer H. http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/FisherElmerH
2 Shellenbarger, Michael http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88672943
Architecture, American http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700
Architecture--United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006693
exterior views http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300124515
office buildings http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300007043
views (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015424
architecture (object genre) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263552
built works http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418
10 Shingle Style http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300018214
11 Queen Anne Style http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300021197
Seattle >> City of Seattle >> King County >> Washington >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5809844/
United States https://sws.geonames.org/6252001/
King County >> Washington >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5799783/
Washington >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5815135/
10 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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