LPBCurrentNom WhiteMotorCoBldg

White Motor Company, Colyear Motor Sales
Company, Brown Building, 11th and Pine Street

Building, Velo Bike Building
1917-18
1021 E Pine Street, Seattle, WA

600350-0395
see below
NAGLES 2ND ADD.
13
LOT 7, BLOCK 13, JOHN H. NAGLES 2ND ADDITION TO THE CITY OF SEATTLE,
RECORDED IN VOL. 5 OF PLATS, PAGE 67, RECORDS OF KING COUNTY
Legacy Pine Street LLC

400-112th Ave NE Suite 230, Bellevue WA 98004
White Company
Automobile sales and offices
Julian F. Everett with William R. Kelley
unknown
Restaurant and offices,

cellular phone and data
tower location
Will Nelson, Legacy Commercial LLC

400-112th Ave NE, Suite 230, Bellevue WA 98004
425-460-4368
September 2014
White Company Building
Landmark Nomination Report

1021 E Pine Street, Seattle, WA
August 2014
Prepared by:
The Johnson Partnership

1212 NE 65th Street
Seattle, WA 98115-6724
206-523-1618, www.tjp.us

August 2014, page i
T ABLE
OF
C ONTENTS
1.
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................ 1
1.1
Background .......................................................................................................................... 1
1.2
Methodology ........................................................................................................................ 1
2.
PROPERTY DATA ............................................................................................................................... 2
3.
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ........................................................................................................ 3

3.1
Location and Neighborhood Character ................................................................................. 3
3.2
Building Site ......................................................................................................................... 3
3.3
Building Structure and Exterior Features .............................................................................. 3
3.4
Plan and Interior Features ..................................................................................................... 4
3.5
Documented Building Alterations ........................................................................................ 4
4.
SIGNIFICANCE .................................................................................................................................. 6
4.1
Historic Context: .................................................................................................................. 6
4.1.1 Neighborhood Historical Context: Capitol Hill....................................................... 6
4.1.2 Building History: White Motor Company Building ................................................ 7
5.
4.2
Associated Individuals or Groups: ......................................................................................... 8

4.2.1 Building Owner: White Motor Company ................................................................ 8
4.2.2 Other Associated Company: Colyear Motor Company ............................................ 9
4.2.3 Other Associated Company: Recreational Equipment Inc...................................... 10
4.3
Architectural Context.......................................................................................................... 11
4.3.1 Historical Architectural Context: Automobile Showrooms .................................... 11
4.3.2 Historical Architectural Context: Local Terra Cotta Manufacturing ...................... 12
4.3.3 Building Architect: Julian F. Everett ...................................................................... 12
4.3.4 Building Contractor: Unknown ............................................................................. 14
BIBLIOGRAPHY ................................................................................................................................ 15
APPENDIX 1FIGURES ............................................................................................................................. 21

APPENDIX 2ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS............................................................................................. 22

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L IST
OF
F IGURES
Figure 1. Location Map .............................................................................................................................. 1

Figure 2. Capitol Hill Neighborhood Map ................................................................................................. 2
Figure 3. Pike/Pine Neighborhood Plan Area ............................................................................................. 3
Figure 4. Neighborhood Aerial ................................................................................................................... 4
Figure 5. View AViewing east along E Pine Street ................................................................................... 5
Figure 6. View BViewing west along E Pine Street .................................................................................. 5
Figure 7. View CViewing southeast across Bobby Morris Playfield ......................................................... 6
Figure 8. View DViewing south along 11th Avenue ............................................................................... 6
Figure 9. Site Plan....................................................................................................................................... 7
Figure 10. White Company Building, viewing from the northeast .............................................................. 8
Figure 11. White Company Building, northern faade ............................................................................... 8
Figure 12. White Company Building, detail of entry on northern faade .................................................... 9
Figure 13. White Company Building, detail of second floor windows and spandrel on northern
faade .................................................................................................................................. 9
Figure 14.White Company Building, eastern faade ................................................................................ 10
Figure 15. White Company Building, entry detail on eastern faade ........................................................ 11
Figure 16. White Company Building, western faade .............................................................................. 11
Figure 17. White Company Building, interior main floor restaurant ........................................................ 12
Figure 18. White Company Building, interior lobby to upper floors......................................................... 12
Figure 19. White Company Building, interior at second floor .................................................................. 13
Figure 20. White Company Building, interior at third floor ..................................................................... 13
Figure 21. White Company Building, interior at third floor mezzanine .................................................... 14
Figure 22. White Company Building, interior at rooftop penthouse ........................................................ 14
Figure 23. 1904-1905 Composite Sanborn Insurance Map, Vol 2, Sheets 192-194, and 220-222; Vol
3, Sheets 263-265 .............................................................................................................. 15
Figure 24. 1905-1951 Composite Sanborn Insurance Map, Vol 2, Sheets 192-194, and 220-222 ........... 15
Figure 25. James Moore ............................................................................................................................ 16
Figure 26. Pike Street from Broadway Avenue E, 1911 ............................................................................. 16
Figure 27. 1893 Streetcar map, detail ...................................................................................................... 17
Figure 28. 1915 Streetcar map, detail ....................................................................................................... 17
Figure 29. Lincoln Reservoir under construction, September, 18, 1899 .................................................... 18
Figure 30. Children playing on Broadway playground, ca. 1907 .............................................................. 18
Figure 31. Children in wading pool at Lincoln Park ca. 1911 ................................................................... 19
Figure 32. Lincoln Park Reservoir, n.d. .................................................................................................... 19
Figure 33. Holy Names Academy and Normal School, 1908 .................................................................... 20
Figure 34. St. Josephs, n.d. ...................................................................................................................... 20
Figure 35. Residences on 14th Avenue E, Capitol Hill, n.d. ..................................................................... 21
Figure 36. Residential street, Capitol Hill, ca. 1917 .................................................................................. 21
Figure 37. White Company Building, 1937 ............................................................................................. 22
Figure 38. White Truck, n.d. .................................................................................................................... 22
Figure 39. White Truck, 1914 .................................................................................................................. 23
Figure 40. Pacific McKay and Ford McKay Buildings .............................................................................. 23
Figure 41. Cosmopolitan Motors/Murray Marsh/ 2024-2030 8th Avenue building, 1937 ....................... 24
Figure 42. N&K Packard dealership at Belmont and Pike in 1909 ........................................................... 24
Figure 43. Taggart Motor Company, Georgetown, 1925 .......................................................................... 25
Figure 44. Great Western Motors Building, 1158 Broadway, 1937 .......................................................... 25
Figure 45. Nelson Chevrolet ..................................................................................................................... 26
Figure 46. Former S.L. Savidge Dealership ............................................................................................... 26

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Figure 47. King County Courthouse, 1921 ..............................................................................................

Figure 48. Artic Building, 1916 ...............................................................................................................
Figure 49. The Times Square Building, 1920 ...........................................................................................
Figure 50. Coliseum Theater, 1934 ..........................................................................................................
Figure 51. Crystal Swimming Pool, 1915 .................................................................................................
Figure 52. Joshua Green Building, 1912 ...................................................................................................
Figure 53. The Securities Building, 1916 ..................................................................................................
Figure 54. Frederick and Nelson Department Store, ca. 1918 ...................................................................
Figure 55. L.C. Smith Building, 1914 ......................................................................................................
Figure 56. J.R. Toole Mansion, 1005 Gerald Avenue, Missoula University Area Historic District,
Missoula, Montana ............................................................................................................
Figure 57. Temple de-Hirsh-Sinai, 1400 Union street ..............................................................................
Figure 58. Third Presbyterian Church, 414 W Howe Street .....................................................................
Figure 59. Redelsheimer Residence, 200 40th Avenue E ...........................................................................
Figure 60. Pioneer Square Pergola ............................................................................................................
Figure 61. B.P.O.P, Port Angeles ..............................................................................................................
Figure 62. Leamington Hotel and Apartments, 1915-16, 317 Marion Street ............................................
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A UGUST 2014
Prepared by:
Larry E. Johnson, AIA
The Johnson Partnership
1212 NE 65th Street
Seattle, WA 98115
www.tjp.us
1. I NTRODUCTION
This historic resources report provides information regarding the architectural design and historical
significance of the building originally known as the White Company Building. The building is
located at 1021 E Pine Street, in Seattle, Washington. The Johnson Partnership prepared this report
at the request of Legacy Pine Street LLC
1.1 BACKGROUND
The City of Seattles Department of Planning and Development (DPD), through a 1995 agreement
with the Department of Neighborhoods, requires a review of potentially eligible landmarks for
commercial projects over 4,000 square feet in area. As any proposed redevelopment of the subject
building described within this report will require a permit from DPD, The property owner is
providing the following report to the staff of the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board (LPB) to
resolve the propertys status.
1.2 M ETHODOLOGY
Research and development of this report were completed in July and August 2014, by Larry E.
Johnson, AIA, principal of The Johnson Partnership, 1212 N.E. 65th Street, Seattle, WA. Research
was undertaken at the University of Washington Special Collections Library, the Seattle Public
Library, the Museum of History and Industry, the Seattle Times Digital Archives, and Internet sites.
The site and buildings were photographed to document the existing conditions in June and July
2014.

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2. P ROPERTY D ATA
Historic/Common Building Names: White Motor Company, Colyear Motor Sales Company,
Brown Building, 11th and Pine Street Building, Velo Bike Building
Address: 1021 E Pine Street, Seattle, WA
Location: Capitol Hill Neighborhood, south of Cal Anderson Park
Assessors File Number: 600350-0395
Legal Description: LOT 7, BLOCK 13, JOHN H. NAGLES 2ND ADDITION TO THE
CITY OF SEATTLE, RECORDED IN VOL. 5 OF PLATS, PAGE 67, RECORDS OF KING
COUNTY
Date of Construction: 1917-18
Original Use/Present Use: Automobile sales and offices/Restaurant and offices, cellular phone
and data tower location
Original Owner: White Company
Present Owner: Legacy Pine Street LLC
Original Designers: Julian F. Everett with William R. Kelley
Other Designers: Arai Jackson (1984 remodel), Carter Woollen (2011 office lobby)
Zoning: NC3P-65
Property Size: 4,800 sq. feet (0.11 acres)
Building Size: 18,158 net sq. feet

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3. A RCHITECTURAL D ESCRIPTION
3.1 Location And Neighborhood Character
The subject building is located at the southwestern corner of the intersection of E Pine Street and
11th Avenue. Cal Anderson Park and Bobby Morris Field, running from E Pine Street north to E
Denny Way, lies directly across E Pine Street to the north. The surrounding neighborhood is a
mixture of commercial and apartment buildings, dating in age from the early 1900s, to the present
day, with some older single-family residential buildings located a few block to the northeast. The
subject building is within the Pike/Pine Commercial District. The Seattle Community College
Central Campus and the Broadway Commercial strip are located two blocks to the northwest. See
figures 1-8.
3.2 Building Site
The corner site measures 80 feet east-west along E Pine Street and 60 feet north-south along 11th
Avenue. The site is bordered on the north and east by concrete sidewalks. Street trees are planted
along E Pine Street. The site is level and is fully occupied by the subject building, as well as extending
into the adjacent rights-of-way at the basement level. See figures 9-10.
3.3 Building Structure & Exterior Features
The subject building is a three-story reinforced concrete building with a full basement. The structural
system is composed of three east-west and four north-south structural bays, with structural concrete
slabs supported by square concrete columns and major north-south structural concrete beams and
east-west structural purlins supporting structural concrete floor slabs. The northern and eastern sides
of the basement extend into the rights-of-way approximately 14 feet and 10 feet respectively. Three
north-south heavy-timber Howe trusses support the roof over the third floor. The upper chords of
the truss extend above the buildings parapet, with the roofline following the outer diagonal members
down to the parapet and perimeter gutter. The roof is covered with a built-up membrane, and is
largely taken up with mechanical and communication equipment. There is an original elevator
penthouse at the southeastern corner of the roof, which is now used for building utilities and cell site
connections. The exteriors of the northern and eastern faades of the building are clad with white
terra cotta, with light-blue accent tiles, and the southern and western building walls are painted cast
concrete.
The northern faade is primary and is classically composed of three floors, a street-level base, a twostory shaft, and a minimum parapet crown, divided vertically by engaged columns into four
structural bays, the outer two being slightly larger than the inner two. A wrought-iron fire escape runs
down from the roof at the western side to small balconies at the third and second floors.
A centrally located projecting entry is a major feature of the main floor faade. It consists of a gabled
pediment with returns, supported by an arched gable wall segment, and two fluted and banded
engaged rectangular columns. The round arch is gauged and has a recessed grillwork clathrie
extending downward to an upper transom trim. A non-original single store door with sidelights and
transom window has replaced the original full-height pair of glass-paneled doors. Four full-height
fluted and banded engaged rectangular columns with simple flared ogee capitals support the second
spandrel. The storefront glazing consists of large glazed windows, resting on a short tiled stem wall,
with divided upper transoms windows. Double-glazed windows separated by narrow vertical mullions
have replaced the original large plate glass storefront windows. The western bay contains an original
secondary doorway with sidelights. The transoms above the doorway have been blocked-off. See
figures 11-13.
The second floor spandrels each have a rectangular horizontal recessed panel. The two outer panels
each have nine spaced light-blue diamonds. The inner spandrel panels are abbreviated by recessed
squares on their outer ends. The squares originally held simple round embossed ornaments that are
no longer present. The simple rectangular columns separating the four bays have vertical recessed

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panels, each with a centrally placed simple bulls eye. The bases of the columns have rectangular
recessed panels, each of which originally held cinched sheaf-like ornament. Only the westernmost
ornament remains. The second floor windows retain their original configuration in the easternmost
two bays, each bay having two outer vertical mullions. The outer windows are divided into four
lights, with the upper lights forming transoms. The inner windows originally were divided into eight
lights, with the upper lights forming transoms. The lower sections of the two westernmost bays have
been re-glazed, losing their vertical muntins. The windows all have a projecting terra cotta sill.
The third floor spandrels are similar to those on the second floor although the two inner bays share
one long recessed panel terminated at each end by square recessed panels absent of their original
ornamentation. The simple rectangular columns separating the four bays have vertical recessed
panels, each with a centrally placed simple bulls eye. The bases of the four outer columns have
rectangular recessed panels, each of which contains a diamond. The third floor windows originally
had the same configuration as the second floor. Four of the lower window lights have been modified
with small operable units.
The upper architrave and parapet has three recessed horizontal panels similar to the third floor
spandrel, although all panels contain spaced light-blue diamonds. Above each column is a rectangular
recessed panel containing a diamond relief. The crown is a simple projecting ogee tapering back to a
copestone.
The eastern faade is secondary, and is similar to the northern faade, although containing only three
bays. The outer bays are approximately half the size of the central bay. The main floor central bay has
a recessed doorway with a pair of non-original store-doors with sidelights and an upper transom,
replacing the original full-height full-width pair of leaded glass-paneled doors. The entry is flanked
on the northern side by storefront glazing similar to the northern faade, and on the southern side by
a narrow strip of storefront glazing and a pair of utility doors with an upper sub-transom window.
The northern bay has storefront glazing similar to the northern faade with three upper transom
lights. The southern bay was originally used to access a large automobile elevator lift and has a large
exposed steel lintel and a contemporary recessed metal doorway infill, called Patina Gate System
which was added in 2010 along with a glass awning for the entry to the office lobby. The office lobby
entry contains non-original aggregate with reclaimed timer cladding on the walls. The upper portion
of the faade is similar to the northern faade. The windows of the central bay are divided into three
sections by vertical mullions. The lower sections of the two central northern bays on the second floor
have been re-glazed, losing their vertical muntins. At least two other windows have been modified to
allow the insertion of small awning windows and the upper transom of the southernmost window on
the second floor has been filled with a louvered vent. A wrought-iron fire escape runs down the
northern bay column from the roof to small balconies at the third and second floors. See figures
14-15.
Only the upper most portion of the southern building wall is visible as it is partially covered by the
adjacent building. The western wall is completely blank. See figure 16.
3.4 Plan & Interior Features
The two northern bays of the ground or main floor, which contained the original showroom, are
fairly open, exposing the original square concrete columns and upper concrete beams and purlins.
The purlins each have an ornamental corbel at their ends. There presently is a centrally placed
horseshoe bar with a back bay, and an entry foyer containing an elevator and stairway accessing the
basement and upper floors. Most finishes are contemporary. The upper floors have an elevator and
egress stairway near the southeastern corner of the building. Both the upper floors have been repartitioned and contain no original finishes. The heavy-timber roof trusses on the third floor are
presently exposed. The western two bays of the third floor have a non-original mezzanine with an
access stairway located at the southwestern corner of the building. See figures 17-22.
3.5 Documented Building Alterations

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The exterior of the building has had glazing changes, changes to the doors and doorways, and the
removal of some terra cotta detailing. The volume of the original main floor street-level showroom
remains, as well as some detailing on the purlins, although all other finishes are contemporary as
noted above. The original automobile elevator was removed at some point and replaced by a
standard-sized elevator. Interior finishes on all floors are non-original, and new restrooms were added
at the first floor. HVAC has been retrofitted into the building at all levels, and a cellular phone site
has been added in the basement and runs up to the roof towers.
Significant Recorded Building Permits (as recorded)
Date
1918
1963
1966
1984
Designer
W. R. Kelley and J. F. Everett
Patterson
Kojev
Arai Jackson
2011
Woollen Studios Inc.
2013
Mallet
2013
Mallet
Description
Build
Construct display area per plan
Opening between buildings
Alterations (add loft to third
floor)
Canopy and Security gate east
side
Replace upper floor windows
(STFI)
Replace storefront windows
Permit #
unknown
504993
517756
6272926
6368748
6368596

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4. Significance
4.1 HISTORIC CONTEXT
4.1.1 Historic Neighborhood Context
The project site is situated within a mixed single-family and multi-family residential area located near
the southeastern edge of the Capitol Hill Neighborhood. Commercial development is located to the
south along the Pike-Pine commercial district and west along Broadway.
The Capitol Hill neighborhood is located on a long north-south ridge that overlooks the central
business district and Lake Union on the west, and the Madison Valley and Lake Washington on the
east. The first known use of the area by European/American settlers was for a cemetery, later named
Lake View Cemetery, at the areas highest point, near its northern end. Logging of the area began in
the 1880s, followed soon after by residential subdivisions. James Moore (1861-1929), Capitol Hills
chief developer, gave the hill its name in 1901, the area having previously been known as Broadway
Hill. Moore is thought to have chosen the name for the quarter section of land he purchased in 1900,
primarily because his wife came from Denver, another western city that had its own Capitol Hill. See
figures 23-25.
J. H. Nagels First Addition, bounded by Harvard Avenue on the west, a half block east of 14th
Avenue on the east, Union Street on the south and Thomas Street to the north, was platted by David
Denny in 1880, as trustee and guardian of the estate of John H. Nagel who was at that time confined
to the Insane Asylum for Washington Territory. Nagel, a German immigrant and early Seattle
pioneer, had homesteaded the area amounting to 161 acres in 1855, raising fruits and vegetables.
Denny left an open tract that encompassed most of Nagels original farm, lying one block east of
Broadway to the east side of 12th Avenue, and from the north side of Gould Street (now Pine Street)
to the south side of Hawthorn Street (now Denny Way), possibly in hope that Nagel would
eventually recover. However, Nagel died in the mental institution in 1897. The City of Seattle
purchased 11.133 acres of the open tract for use as a reservoir. The reservoir and hydraulic pumping
station were completed in 1901, with the remaining area developed as a park (1902, Olmstead
Brothers), and playfield (1908). The reservoir and park were named Lincoln Reservoir and Lincoln
Park and in 1922 renamed Broadway Playfield to avoid confusion with the new Lincoln Park in West
Seattle. The playfield was renamed the Bobby Morris Playfield in 1980. In 2003, the entire site was
named Cal Anderson Park in honor of Washington States first gay legislator.1 See figures 27-30.
Many of the new plats were laid out in conjunction with streetcar lines, specifically to attract new
property owners. The Yesler Way cable car line to Lake Washington opened in 1888. Within 12
months, builders constructed approximately 1,569 homes within three blocks of the cable car line. In
1901, the City Park trolley line was constructed from downtown to what would become Volunteer
Park. By 1909, the Puget Sound Traction Light and Power Company would extend three more lines
north along the Capitol Hill Ridge. Similar to the City Park line, the Capitol Hill line approached
the ridge along Pike Street to reach the last long leg of its route on 15th Avenue. Another line
followed 19th Avenue, and the 23rd Avenue line was laid along the line of the old wagon road as far
north as Portage Bay, and to the entrance of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition on the
University of Washington Campus. Another streetcar line running up Pike street was laid by 1912.
See figures 31-32.
Capitol Hill quickly became a streetcar suburb with residential areas constructed to the sides of the
business and transportation strips of Broadway, 15th, and 19th Avenues. By 1912, there were more
than 40 platted additions within the Capitol Hill area, including Fourth, Yesler, and Moores seven
Capitol Hill tracts, and the several Pontius additions. Capitol Hill became a mix of large grand
houses, and modest family houses, often sharing the same block. As platted, the lots are generally
small, usually around 60' x 120'. Many of these homes were built in the form of the efficient Seattle
1
Dotty Decoster, Nagle, John H. (1830-1897), HistoryLink.org Essay 9268, January 23, 2010,
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9268, accessed August 23, 2014, pp. 1-6.

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Box style.
Because of the proximity of large Catholic churches and schools built in the area at that time;
including Holy Names Academy (1907) at 22nd Avenue and Aloha Street, St. Josephs Church (1907)
and School (1908) on 18th Avenue, and Forest Ridge School (1907) on Interlaken Boulevard; many
large Catholic families moved into the neighborhood. See figures 33-34.
Other areas developed a more unified character of grander houses. The first was Millionaires Row
developed by Moore on 14th Avenue just south of Volunteer Park, followed by what became known
as the Harvard/Belmont district. See figures 35-36.
St. Lukes Hospital, the future home of the Group Health Cooperative was built in the 1920s on 15th
Avenue E., but was purchased in 1947, as one of the first medical facilities for the Group Health
Cooperative.
Apartment house development occurred parallel and in some cases immediately adjacent to single
family residential development. Many of the early multi-family buildings provided large units within
handsome structures with garden areas, providing housing for families. Later, many of these larger
apartments were divided into smaller units for single occupants. Likewise, many larger single-family
residences were converted to rooming houses. A few bungalow courts in their various forms were also
built in the area within easy walking distance to streetcar lines in the 1920s.
Capitol Hill is now a vibrant community, with a thriving business district along Broadway Avenue
and along 15th and 19th Avenues. It is home to Volunteer Park and the Seattle Asian Art Museum, St.
Marks Episcopal Cathedral, as well as other churches, Seattle Central Community College, Cornish
College for the Arts, as well as many shops, restaurants, night classes, and coffeehouses. Madison
Street has also seen major redevelopment. The Miller Park area has an active neighborhood
organization that has worked over the last twenty odd years on improving social problems and urban
design issues.
Note: A history of the Capitol Hill area is available in the form of a context statement in the City
of Seattles Department of Neighborhoods Historic Preservation Program Historic Property Survey
Report: Seattles Neighborhood Commercial Districts, available at:
http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/preservation/contextcommercialreport.pdf.
4.1.2 Building History:
The subject building was built in 1918, for the White Motor Company, an early automobile and
truck manufacturer.2
The White Motor Company moved into the Seattle sales market in 1914, promoting Gerhardt R.
Hubner (1877-1940) formerly of the Portland, Oregon, office, to branch manager of the Seattle
office.3 The company was originally located at 1314 3rd Avenue, and specialized in delivery and
logging trucks ranging in size from to 5-ton models.4 It appears that an attorney retained by the
company, J. E. Willett, originally commissioned Julian F. Everett to design the building at 1021 E
Pine Street in 1917.5 The company moved into their new building late in 1918, with senior company
officials inspecting the building in January 1919.6 At that time some of the ground-floor space was
rented to a radiator shop owned by Sydney Renner.7 C. W. Cornell of the Portland office, suddenly
replaced Hubner as manager in April 1922.8 The company moved or left the Seattle market around
W. R. Kelley and J. F. Everett Architects, Building For The White Co.-Seattle, December 3, 1917, dwgs. 1-10.
Seattle Daily Times, White Factory Puts Branch In Seattle, September 27, 1914, p. 42.
4
Seattle Sunday Times, White Trucks, October 21, 1917, p. 58.
5
J. F. Everett-Architect, Building for Mr. O. L. Willitt, July-August, 1916, dwgs. 1-10. The original drawings include the
design of a two-story building, later changed to three-stories. Willitt could also have been an independent developer who
sold the project to the White Motor Company.
6
Seattle Daily Times, Off For San Francisco, January 12, 1919, p. 40.
7
Seattle Daily Times, Sydney Renner Kills Self In Dive Under Car, May 2, 1924, p. 17.
8
Seattle Daily Times, New White Manager, April 9, 1922, p. 24. After his dismissal, Hubner briefly managed an outlet
for a competing truck company, and then formed Hubner Motors in West Seattle.
3

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1928.9
Rowland & Clark, an Auburn Automobile distributer, occupied the building shortly beginning in
1928.10
From 1938 to around 1954, the Colyear Motor Sales Company, a dealer in wholesale auto parts,
used the building as a warehouse and store.11
The Craig Corporation, a recording equipment retailer, moved into the building around 1958.12
Kar Craft Auto Upholstery moved into a space at the eastern side of the building at 1534 11th
Avenue, and in 1963, Spray Craft Auto Painting Inc. moved into another portion of the building.13
Recreational Equipment Incorporated (REI) acquired the building around 1966. As the company
grew, it expanded outward from its second retail location at 1525 11th Avenue, creating a complex of
interconnected adjacent buildings. Seattle architects Arai Jackson oversaw renovations of the upper
floors of the subject building for office space between 1984-85, although leaving the exterior
generally intact.14 REI moved out of what was now a multi-building complex in 1996, relocating to
their new flagship store in south Lake Union.
The main floor was remodeled into a bicycle shop in 1984.15 The Stranger newspaper offices moved
into the upper two floors in the late 1990s. The ground floor is currently occupied by a bar and
restaurant, the Rhino Room.
See figure 37.
4.2 ASSOCIATED INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS
4.2.1 Original Building Owner: W hite M otor Company 16
The subject building was originally constructed in 1918, as a showroom and offices of the White
Motor Company.17
Rollin White and his two brothers, Windsor and Walter White, founded the White Motor Company
in Cleveland, Ohio, as a division of the White Sewing Machine Company. Utilizing a patent owned
by Rollin White for an improved steam engine, the company began offering automobiles for sale in
1901. Whites first product was a small delivery truck, dubbed the Pie Wagon. It was a two-cylinder,
undercarriage-mounted affair, utilizing tiller steering and chain drive. The company became
independent of its parent company in 1905. At that time, Whites Model M, a seven-seat tourer was
its most popular product. The company switched over to producing gasoline engine powered vehicles
in 1908, producing its last steamer in 1912. The company built up its reputation for expensive, highquality, and rugged cars and light trucks. A three-ton truck model, the GTA, appeared with a 30
horsepower engine and chain drive and also in 1912, the five-ton TC was added. Rollin later left the
company, forming the Cleveland Motor Plow Company, later Cletrac, manufacturing of farm
tractors.
By the beginning of World War I, the company was producing heavier vehicles, essentially utility
9
R. L. Polk Co. Polks Seattle City Directory, 1928.

Seattle Daily Times, Yes, we pay more, but you dont, May 27, 1928, p. 32. R. L. Polk Co. Polks Seattle City
Directory, 1928.
11
Seattle Daily Times, Colyear Motor Sales Moves To New Home, October 7, 1938, p. 35. R. L. Polk Co. Polks Seattle
City Directory, 1938. R. L. Polk Co. Polks Seattle City Directory, 1954.
12
13
14
Arai Jackson Architects & Designers, 11th & Pine Building, 1984, degs. A-6 A-11.
15
William E. White, sign permit drawing, December 6, 1984.
16
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trucks, allowing it to secure several military contracts during the war years. The company completely
discontinued passenger car production after the war, concentrating on trucks, soon capturing ten
percent of the United States truck market. The company produced trucks in all sizes, ranging from
light delivery vehicles, fire trucks, armored cars, to heavy semi-trucks. Whites first six-cylinder
platform, the three-ton Model 59, appeared in 1928, and a 10-ton, three-axle versions followed in
1930.
The company that originally had a benevolent corporate culture, was reorganized after Walter White
died in a traffic accident. As a result, disgruntled company employees formed one of the nations first
automobile unions in 1933.
During the 1930s, the company manufactured approximately 500 Model 706s, a small passenger bus
intended specifically for carrying passengers through seven major western National Parks. The
distinctive rollback canvas convertibles, dubbed red jammers, where designed by noted industrial
designer Alexis de Sakhnoffsky. A number of restored buses still operate in Glacier and Yellowstone
National Parks.
During the Depression, due to a drop in sales, the company was forced into a brief merger with
Studebaker. Robert F. Black became president of the company in 1935, steering the company to
profitability and relatively peaceful relations with its work force.
During World War II, the company again produced military vehicles, including the M3 scout car
and the M2 and M3 half-tracks.
After World War II, White only produced heavy trucks, and expanded operation through acquiring a
number of competing truck manufactures including Sterling, Autocar, Diamond T, and REO Motor
Car Company. From 1951 to 1977, the company also sold Consolidated Freightways Freightliner
trucks through its dealerships. White trucks then were produced under the Autocar nameplate from
1953 to 1977, and Diamond T and the REO became Diamond REO, a division of the White Motor
Company. The company created the Western Star division in 1967, marketing trucks in the Western
states.
Sales declined during the 1960s, leading the company to consider additional mergers, and opening
plants in Virginia and Utah, non-union states, in its struggle to remain profitable. By 1980, however,
the company was insolvent, and AB Volvo acquired all United States assets in 1981, continuing to
produce trucks under the Autocar nameplate until it purchased GMCs heavy truck business in 1987,
creating the White-GMC brand. Volvo continued to manufacture Autocar trucks until 2000,
subsequently selling the brand to Grand Vehicles Works, which continues to manufacture Autocar
low cab forward trucks. Presently Volvo manufactures trucks in the United States market under its
own nameplate, Volvo Trucks North America.
An Alberta based company, NovaCorp, acquired all Canadian assets, and continued to produce
trucks under the Western Star nameplate for sale in the Canadian market. Western Star was sold to
Australian investor, Terry Peabody in 1990, and resold to Daimler-Chrysler and subsequently
merged into its Freightliner subsidiary.
White Farm Equipment, a former white subsidiary, produced White tractors until 2001. See
figures 38-39.
4.2.2 Other Associated Individuals or Groups: Colyear M otor Sales Company
Curtis Calhoun Colyear (1875-1943) incorporated the Colyear Motor Sales Company in 1912.
Colyear, a self-made California businessman, had previously founded Colyears New and
Secondhand Furniture, a downtown Los Angeles institution in the early 1900s, followed by Colyears
Van & Storage. The Colyear Motor Sales Company would ultimately become the largest
independent distributor of automotive replacement parts on the West Coast with several retail
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in 1965.18
4.2.3 Other Associated Individuals or Groups: Recreational Equipment
Incorporated
Recreational Equipment Incorporated, occupied the subject building as part of a complex of
buildings it owned and occupied on Capitol Hill from the mid-1960s to 1996.19
Lloyd and Mary Anderson, with attorney Ed Rombauer, formed the Recreational Equipment
Cooperative in 1938, with the intent of obtaining high quality outdoor gear that could be bought
only through special order, sharing special purchases among their friends. The co-op soon held its
first meeting, issued its first 23 numbered membership cards, and opened its first merchandizing
location at a former grocery store at 2129 Western Avenue. By 1940, the co-op had 2,000 members
and $3,000 in annual sales. The co-op moved to a former gas station at 803 Virginia Street in 1943,
and moved again to a store adjacent to the Mountaineers clubroom at 523 Pike Street in 1944.20
The co-op members voted to incorporate as a non-profit, in 1956, becoming Recreational
Equipment Incorporated, known more familiarly as REI. By 1959, REI finally moved inventory
storage out of the Anderson home, opening a warehouse and store at 1525 11th Avenue. The
following year REI had nearly 20,000 members and $500,000 annual sales. REI officially moved to
1525 11th Avenue in 1963, retaining the old location as a small warehouse and discount location.
That same year, REI employee, Jim Whittaker, became the first American to summit Mount
Everest.21
By 1970, REI had nearly 200,000 members. The company opened its first retail location outside of
the Seattle area in 1975, in Berkeley, California, and two years later opened its first distribution
center in Tukwila, Washington. The administrative offices were also moved to the distribution center
at that time. The 1970s ended with the company having six retail stores, a membership of one
million, and $50 million in annual sales.22
Membership swelled to around two million by 1990, with approximately $230 million in annual
sales, and 26 retail stores throughout the United States. The company built a state-of-the-art
distribution center in Sumner, Washington in 1992, and opened its large flagship store in South Lake
Union in September 1996. The company also launched its retail website in 1996.23
By the year 2000, the company claimed nearly five million members, with 61 retail stores and $700
million in annual retail sales. Annual sales reached one billion dollars in 2006. With approximately
ten million members in 2010, REI started the decade with 114 retail stores and $1.66 million in
annual sales.24
REI continues to expand its operations throughout the United States, currently operating
18
ARTFIXdaily, Estate of Orange County Philanthropist Elizabeth Colyear Vincent Brings More That $2-Million,
http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/estate-of-orange-county-philanthropist-elizabeth-colyear-vincent-brings-morethan-2-million, accessed August 13, 2014, p. 1. Justia US Law, Estate of Colyear, 17 Cal. App. 3rd 173,
http://law.justia.com/cases/california/calapp3d/17/173.html, accessed August 13, 2014, p.1.
19
Recreational Equipment Incorporated (REI), Celebrating 75 Years of Adventure, http://reihistory.com/1960/, accessed
August 8, 2014, p. 1.
20
August 8, 2014, p. 1. Recreational Equipment Incorporated (REI), Celebrating 75 Years of Adventure,
http://reihistory.com/1940/, accessed August 8, 2014, p. 1.
21
22
23
August 8, 2014, p. 1.
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approximately 126 retail stores, while remaining dedicated to environmental stewardship through
several internal programs, as a member of the outdoor industry Conservation Alliance, and a
charitable foundation supporting outdoor recreational for youth and families.25
4.3 HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT
4.3.1: Architectural Stylistic Context
The subject building was designed as a three-story eclectic automobile showroom and office
building.26
Prior to the early 1900s, auto dealerships had no distinct typology, as they were usually associated with
other transportation related sales including livery stables, blacksmiths, or bicycle shops. Between 1910
and 1920, automobile manufacturers began to influence the design of dealer showrooms.
Manufacturers encouraged dealers to build grander, even palatial, buildings that were on par with
downtown banks and hotel buildings. These showrooms became corporate status symbols, and
showrooms became virtual sales palaces, where affluent potential buyers were entertained with subtle
salesmanship.27 These buildings built just before and during the 1920s, were often two or three-story
buildings flush with their street-front property lines and featured large plate glass windows that allowed
better views of the automobiles inside.28 The exterior faades were patterned similar to other
contemporary commercial buildings. The buildings were often constructed of reinforced concrete to
allow fireproof construction and to accommodate heavy loads of vehicles that were often serviced on
upper floors above the showroom.29 Brick masonry, cast stone, and terra cotta were used on the
exterior, the latter two often highly ornamented with eclectic compositions of Classical detailing.
The Pacific McKay and Ford McKay Buildings, previously located on Mercer Street and in the process
of being relocated due to the Mercer Street reconstruction project, were designed by architect Warren
H. Milner and are probably the best example of a 1920s dealership in Seattle. These new dealership
buildings were often clustered, creating auto rows, often near wealthy residential areas. The first auto
row in Seattle was on Capitol Hills Broadway, but others developed along Westlake Avenue, Mercer
Street, and Pine Street.30 See figures 40-44.
The Depression of the 1930s had severe consequences on automobile manufacturers and their
dealerships, with many leaving the scene, and others drastically cutting back operations.31 Automobile
manufacturing capacity was redirected to the war effort in the early 1940s.32 Post-war prosperity and
new highway construction brought increased automobile production and expansion of dealerships.33 As
automobiles became streamlined, so did the buildings that housed them. The former S.L. Savidge
dealership (now the Washington Talking Book library) designed by Naramore, Bain, Brady, and
Johanson, and built in 1948, is undoubtedly the finest example of an Art Deco automotive showroom
in Seattle. See Figure 6.
As the cult of the automobile evolved in the 1940s and 1950s, allowing for the expansion of suburbia,
automobile dealers were encouraged to leave the decaying city cores for outlying areas with less
25

http://reihistory.com/1990/, accessed August 8, 2014, p. 1. Recreational Equipment Incorporated, 2010 Stewardship
Report, http://www.rei.com/stewardship/report/community/rei-foundation.html, accessed August 13, 2014, p. 1.
26
R. L. Polk Company, Polks Seattle City Directory, 1968.
27
Ezra Abraham The Evolution of Seattles Early Automobile Showrooms on Capitol Hill, In Preservation of the
Vernacular Environment III, Edited by Gail Lee Dubrow, Neile Graham, and Amy Scarfone (Seattle, WA: University of
Washington, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Preservation Planning & Design Program Working Papers, Vol.
III, Winter 1999), pp. 111-123.
28
Abraham, pp. 111-123.
29
30
31
32
Abraham, pp. 111-123
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expensive land that allowed for large car lots and sprawling one-story showrooms and service centers.34
Early expansion areas included Ballard, Roosevelt Way, and Lake City, but soon dealerships were
located to the eastside in Bellevue, to the north in Lynnwood, and south as far as Auburn.35
Architectural style for these new low-rise buildings included streamlined Modern or boxy International
Style knockoffs, evolving into George Jetson futuristic spaceports, also known as Googie style. See
figures 45-46.
4.3.2 Building M aterials and M ethods: Local Terra Cotta M anufacture
As the demand for lighter and fireproof exterior cladding material grew in Seattle in the 1880s, four
West Coast terra cotta manufacturing companies grew to dominate the industry.36 Two of these
companies were locally based, the Puget Sound Fire Clay Company and the Northern Clay Company.
The Washington Brick, Lime, & Sewer Pipe Company was based in Spokane, while the GladdingMcBean Company was located in Lincoln City, California.37
The Denny Clay Company was organized in 1882, after Arthur A. Denny took over the assets of the
Puget Sound Fire Clay Company whose factory was near Van Asselt, a former town on the Duwamish
River where the current Boeing factory is now located. By 1900, the company was marketing its tile
along the West Coast from California to Alaska. Around that time the company relocated to Taylor,
Washington, just east of Buckley, opening large clay mines and building a large factory.38
The Denny Clay Company merged with the Renton Clay Company in 1905, forming the DennyRenton Clay Company.39 This company produced terra cotta for many well known downtown Seattle
buildings including the King County Courthouse, the Arctic Building, and the Times Building.40 See
figures 47-49.
The Northern Clay Company was organized in 1900, in Auburn, and supplied terra cotta for the
Coliseum Theater, the Washington Securities Building, the Crystal Swimming Pool, the Joshua Green
Building, the Securities Building, and the Frederick and Nelson Department Store.41 See figures 5054.
The Washington Brick, Lime, and Sewer Company had a large plant in Spokane that was capable of a
monthly production of 450 tons.42
Gladding-McBean, was the preeminent producer of terra cotta in California, and produced terra cotta
for the Smith Tower, the Pioneer Building, and the Federal Office Building.43 See figure 55.
In 1925, the Denny-Renton Clay Company merged with Gladding McBean. Gladding McBean is
presently the only terra cotta manufacturer in the United States.44
Original drawings do not specify where the buildings terra cotta was manufactured.
4.3.3 Building Architect: Julian F. Everett (1869-1955) with W illiam R. Kelley
Seattle architect Julian F. Everett and William R. Kelley designed the subject building in
collaboration with William R. Kelley.45
34

36
Mark Smith, The History of American Terra-Cotta and its Local Manufacture, In Impressions of Imagination: Terracotta Seattle, Edited by Lydia Aldredge, (Seattle, WA: Allied Arts of Seattle, 1986), p. 3.
37
Smith, p. 3
38
Smith, p. 3.
39
Smith, p. 3.
40
Smith, p. 3.
41
Smith, p. 3.
42
Smith, p. 3.
43
Smith, p. 3.
44
Smith, p. 4.
45
35

Julius (Julian) Franklin Everett was born in Leeds, Wisconsin on October 5, 1869, the fourth child
of Benjamin and Elizabeth Everett.46 He graduated from Poynette High School in 1889.47 Everett
studied at Syracuse University between 1891 and 1893.48 He moved to Bozeman, Montana, around
1902, where he worked briefly for the architectural firm of Link & Carter.49 This firm is known to
have designed Buttes Masonic Temple around 1902. He is known to have designed the J.R. Toole
Mansion (1903, 1005 Gerald Avenue, Missoula University Area Historic District, National Register,
now Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority House) a large Neo-Classical featuring a two-story entrance
porch with Doric columns.50 See figure 56.
Everett relocated to Seattle around 1905, practicing as an architect with an office on the fourth floor
of the Walker Building, later moving to the Boston Block.51 His practice originally focused on church
buildings, including the Pilgrim Congregational Church (1906, 500 Broadway Avenue E, altered), a
Classical Revival brick masonry church on Capitol Hill, the Temple de-Hirsh-Sinai (1907, 1400
Union street, demolished), a brick masonry building combining Renaissance revival in the main
structure and Venetian Gothic revival styling on its prominent twin towers; and the Third United
Presbyterian Church (1907, 414 W Howe Street, altered), a modest Mission style brick masonry
church on Queen Anne Hill.52 See figures 57-58.
In 1906 wealthy Jewish clothier Julius Redelsheimer, commissioned Everett to design a hip-roofed
Seattle Box (1021 Summit Avenue, demolished) on First Hill. Redelsheimer later hired Everett to
design a large Colonial Revival mansion (1914, 200 40th Avenue E, National Register, altered), in the
Denny Blaine neighborhood.53 See figure 59.
In 1909, Everett won an architectural competition to design a comfort station in Pioneer Square. The
City of Seattle Parks Commission selected his design over five other entries since it was the least
conspicuous by leaving an unobstructed view of the plot and leaving ample room for the carrying out
of the proposed plan to erect a monument to the pioneers on the other (northern) portion. The
Victorian style metal and glass structure, now known as the Pioneer Square Pergola (Pioneer National
Register District, altered), originally housed underground lavatories that are now blocked off from
public access.54 See figure 60.
In 1913, Everett designed a brick masonry three-story lodge building in Port Angeles for the
B.P.O.E. (Elks).55 The same year he designed another lodge building in Port Angeles, and two
hospitals for the Sisters of Charity, although it is not known if any of the three were completed.56 See
figure 61.
Everett collaborated with architect Walter R. B. Wilcox (1869-1947) in 1915, designing the
Leamington Hotel and Apartments (1915-16, 317 Marion Street, City of Seattle Landmark,
46
State of California; California Death Index, 1940-1997; SS#561203295. United States; 1870 Census, Leeds, Columbia
County, Wisconsin; July 1, 1870; p. 143.
47
Poyneete High School Yearbook, Alumni 1884-1929,
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wicolumb/new/poquette1930.html, accessed July 28, 2014, n. p.
48
Syracuse University; Surface; Alumni Record, Non-Graduates, 1871-99; p. 838.
49
This firm is known to have designed Buttes Masonic Temple around 1902.
50
The Anaconda Standard, Among New Residences, December 18, 1904, p. 8.
51
R. L. Polk Company, Polks Seattle City Directory, 1905, p. 462.
52
Seattle Daily Times, Plans Now Being Drawn For Church Edifice, November 1, 1905, p. 4. Seattle Sunday Times,
The New Temple De Hirsh, February 4, 1906, p. 14. Seattle Sunday Times, Selection of Exposition Sites Suits Majority
of Realty Men of the City, June 24, 1906, p. 52.
53
Seattle Sunday Times, Beautiful New Home On Lake Shore, August 31, 1913, p. 22. Rose Wong and Marilyn
Sullivan, Redelsheimer-Ostrander House, National Register of Historic Places nomination, Section 8, p. 4. The residence
is also known as the Redelsheimer-Ostander House, since Redelsheimer died shortly before the project was finished.
54
Seattle Daily Times, Pioneer Place To Have Comfort Station, April 7, 1909, p. 11.
55
The Pacific Coast Architect, Seattle, February 1913,
https://archive.org/stream/pacificcoastarch31912port#page/n409/mode/2up, accessed August 1, 2014, p. 232.
56
See Appendix 3.

National Register, now Pacific Hotel, altered), for Dr. Edward Lincoln Smith, the founder and
pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church.57See figure 62.
Everett also collaborated in 1917, with William R. Kelley (1877-1945), on a three-story white terra
cotta commercial building (subject building) on Capitol Hill for the White Company. Kelley, the
author of a catalog of homes designs, Homes: A Collection of Choice Designs, occupied an office in
the same building, the Boston Block, as Everett and had recently completed a garage building at 615
Pine Street.58 See figure 37.
Everett also designed the Path Building in 1922, a one-story brick masonry building in Seattles Bell
Town neighborhood, used for film distribution.59
The last major project attributed to Everett was the Hunters Hotel (destroyed by fire 1932), in Hot
Springs, Montana, completed in 1925.60
Everett retired to Ventura, California, around 1922, and passed away there on January 13, 1955, at
age 86.61
4.3.4 Building Contractor: Unknown
57
Seattle Daily Times, New Apartment House Planned, June 28, 1915.
William R. Kelley, Homes: A Collection of Choice Designs, Distinctive Homes Company, 1912. The American
Architect. Building News. Vol. CXI, No. 2166, June 27, 1917, p.
16.http://books.google.mw/books?id=zFogAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onep
age&q&f=false, accessed August 1, 2014, p. 16.
59
Seattle Daily Times, Building Permits, May 10, 1922, p. 19.
60
Rose Wong and Marilyn Sullivan, Redelsheimer-Ostrander House, National Register of Historic Places nomination,
Section 8, p. 4.
61
State of California; California Death Index, 1940-1997; SS#561203295.
58

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Urban Planning, Preservation Planning & Design Program Working Papers, Vol. III, Winter
1999.
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F IGURES
Google Maps
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Figure 1. Location Map

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City of Seattle City Clerks Office
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Figure 2. Capitol Hill Neighborhood Map

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City of Seattle Strategic Planning Office
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Google Maps
E Olive Street
Bobby Morris
Playfield
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11th Avenue
10th Avenue
E Pike Street
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Figure 4. Neighborhood Aerial

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The Johnson Partnership, 6-3-14
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Figure 5. View AViewing east along E Pine Street

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Figure 6. View BViewing west along E Pine Street

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Figure 7. View CViewing southeast across Bobby Morris Playfield

Figure 8. View DViewing south along 11th Avenue

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The Johnson Partnership, 8-2014
Bobby Morris Playfield
E Pine Street
street parking
sidewalk
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Figure 10. White Company Building, viewing from the northeast

Figure 11. White Company Building, northern faade

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Figure 12. White Company Building, detail of entry on northern faade

Figure 13. White Company Building, detail of second floor windows and spandrel on northern faade

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Figure 14.White Company Building, eastern faade

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Figure 15. White Company Building, entry detail on eastern faade

Figure 16. White Company Building, western faade

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Figure 17. White Company Building, interior main floor restaurant

Figure 18. White Company Building, interior lobby to upper floors

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Figure 19. White Company Building, interior at second floor

Figure 20. White Company Building, interior at third floor

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Figure 21. White Company Building, interior at third floor mezzanine

Figure 22. White Company Building, interior at rooftop penthouse

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Sanborn Insurance Maps
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Figure 23. 1904-1905 Composite Sanborn Insurance Map, Vol 2, Sheets 192-194, and 220-222; Vol 3, Sheets 263-265
Sanborn Insurance Maps
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Figure 24. 1905-1951 Composite Sanborn Insurance Map, Vol 2, Sheets 192-194, and 220-222

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UW Spec Coll. A-Y-P-E Coll., AYP1242
Figure 25. James Moore (1861-1929)

UW Spec Coll. Seattle Photograph Coll., SEA0505
Figure 26. Pike Street from Broadway Avenue E, 1911

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Seattle Municipal Archives 7280
Figure 27. Lincoln Reservoir under construction, September, 18, 1899

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Figure 28. Children playing on Broadway playground (now Bobby Morris Playfield), ca. 1907

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MOHAI 1983.10.7988
Figure 29. Children in wading pool at Lincoln Park (now Cal Anderson Park), ca. 1911
UW Digital Collections CFT0108
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Figure 30. Lincoln Park Reservoir, n.d.

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Leslie Blanchard, The Street Railway Era in Seattle
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Figure 32. 1915 Streetcar map, detail

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UW Spec Coll. Asahel Curtis Coll., CUR509
Figure 33. Holy Names Academy and Normal School, 1908

Figure 34. St. Josephs, n.d.

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Figure 35. Residences on 14th Avenue E, Capitol Hill, n.d.

Figure 36. Residential street, Capitol Hill, ca. 1917

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Puget Sound Regional Archives
Figure 37. White Company Building, 1937

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Figure 38. White Truck, n.d.

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Seattle Times
Figure 39. White Truck, 1914

UW Digital Collection SEA3115
Figure 40. Pacific McKay and Ford Mckay Buildings (Harlan Thomas and Clyde Grainger, 1925)

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Seattle Times
Figure 41. Cosmopolitan Motors/Murray Marsh/ 2024-2030 8th Avenue building, 1937
MOHAI
Figure 42. N&K Packard dealership at Belmont and Pike in 1909

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MOHAI 1983.10.3076.3
Figure 43. Taggart Motor Company, Georgetown, 1925

Puget Sound Regional Archives
Figure 44. Great Western Motors Building, 1158 Broadway, 1937

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MOHAI 1983.10.142627
Figure 45. Nelson Chevrolet

The Johnson Partnership 2007
Figure 46. Former S.L. Savidge Dealership

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MOHAI 2002.48.610
Figure 47. King County Courthouse, 1921

MOHAI 1983.10.10417
Figure 48. Arctic Building, 1916

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MOHAI 1983.10.6468.2
Figure 49. The Times Square Building, 1920

MOHAI 1983.10.4493
Figure 50. Coliseum Theater, 1934

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MOHAI 1983.10.769
Figure 51. Crystal Swimming Pool, 1915

MOHAI 1983.10.2876.1
Figure 52. Joshua Green Building, 1912

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MOHAI 1983.10.10350.2
Figure 53. Securities Building, 1916

MOHAI 1983.10.1237
Figure 54. Frederick and Nelson Department Store, ca. 1918

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UW Digital Collections, CUR1412
Figure 55. L.C. Smith Building, 1914

Unknown
Figure 56. J.R. Toole Mansion, 1005 Gerald Avenue, Missoula University Area Historic District, Missoula, Montana (Julian
F. Everett, 1903, National Register, now Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority House)

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Unknown
Figure 57. Temple de-Hirsh-Sinai, 1400 Union street (Julian F. Everett, 1907, demolished)
qapresbyterian.org
Figure 58. Third Presbyterian Church, 414 W Howe Street (Julian F. Everett, 1907, altered)

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Seattle Times
Figure 59. Redelsheimer Residence, 200 40th Avenue E (Julian F. Everett, 1906, National Register, altered)
Unknown
Figure 60. Pioneer Square Pergola (Julian F. Everett, 1909)

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Unknown
Figure 61. B.P.O.P, Port Angeles (Julian F. Everett, 1913)

Unknown
Figure 62. Leamington Hotel and Apartments, 1915-16, 317 Marion Street (Julian F. Everett with Walter R. B. Wilcox,
1915-16, City of Seattle Landmark, Nation Register, now Pacific Hotel, altered)

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A PPENDIX 2
A RCHITECTURAL D RAW INGS

A PPENDIX 3
J ULIAN F. E VERETT A TTRIBUTIONS
Year
Address
Client or Name
Notes
1903
J.R. Toole
Residence
Pilgrim Congregational Church/Dr.

Edward Lincoln Smith
George A. Smith
Julius Redelsheimer
Temple de-Hirsh-Sinai
Unknown
Church, altered
1905-06
1905-06
1906-07
1906
1005 Gerald Ave,

Missoula, MT62
500 Broadway Avenue
E63
Alki64
1021 Summit Ave.65
1400 Union St.66
Kennett, CA67
1906
1908
1908-09
414 W Howe St.68

935 22nd Ave. N69
722 18th Ave. S70
Third United Presbyterian Church

Mrs. N. O. Reichart
City of Seattle, Fire Station # 23
1909
1910
1912
Pioneer Square71
902 24th Ave. E72
6th Ave. S and
Connecticut St.73
Port Townsend74
Seattle75
200 40th Avenue E76
City of Seattle, Comfort Station

J. F. Everett
Seattle Cracker & Candy Co.
B.P.O.E. Lodge
1913
1913
1913?
1915-16
131 E 1st St. Port

Angeles, WA77
Renton Junction78
Victoria, B.C.79
Juneau
317 Marion St.80
Bungalow
Seattle Box, demolished
Synagogue, demolished
Residence, destroyed by Shasta
Dam construction.
Church, altered
Residence, altered
Now Cherry Hill Neigh. Center,
altered, Seattle Landmark
Altered
Residence
Four-story factory bldg.,
demolished
Project
One story garage bldg., Project?
Residence, altered, National
Register
Three story, $30,000
1918
1021 E Pine St.
Grandstand and garage

Sisters Hospital
Sisters Hospital
Dr. Edward Lincoln Smith,
Leamington Hotel and Apts.
O. L. Willett/White Company
Project?
Project?
Project?
Apartments, w/ W. R. B. Wilcox,
Seattle Landmark
w/ W. R. Kelley
1905-06
1912
1912
1913-14
1913
62
Elks Lodge
T. M. Jeffrey
Julius Redelsheimer
The Anaconda Standard, Among New Residences, December 18, 1904, p. 47.
Seattle Daily Times, Plans Now Being Drawn For Church Edifice, November 1, 1905, p. 4.
64
Seattle Sunday Times, With The Realty Dealers and Investors, December 17, 1905, p. 66.
65
Seattle Sunday Times, Home of Jules Redelsheimer, February 4, 1906, p. 39.
66
Seattle Sunday Times, The New Temple De Hirsh, February 4, 1906, p. 14.
67
Seattle Sunday Times, With The Architects, June 10, 1906, p. 39.
68
Seattle Sunday Times, Selection of Exposition Sites Suits Majority of Realty Men of the City, June 24, 1906, p. 52.
69
Seattle Sunday Times, Many New Homes To Be Built, August 23, 1908, p. 29.
70
Seattle Sunday Times, Prefontain Place To Be Improved, December 20, 1908, p. 37.
71
Seattle Daily Times, Pioneer Place To Have Comfort Station, April 7, 1909, p. 11.
72
Seattle Daily Times, Court Fight On Hospital Opens, March 14, 1910, p. 8.
73
Seattle Daily Times, Factory Building Contract is Let, April 3, 1912, p. 19.
74
The Pacific Coast Architect, Washington, Vol. 4, December 1912, p. 457.
75
The Pacific Coast Architect, Washington, Vol. 4, November 1912, p. 88.
76
Seattle Sunday Times, Beautiful New Home On Lake Shore, August 31, 1913, p. 22. Rose Wong and Marilyn
Sullivan, Redelsheimer-Ostrander House, National Register of Historic Places nomination, Section 8, p. 4.
77
The Pacific Coast Architect, Seattle, February 1913, p. 232.
78
The Pacific Coast Architect, Washington, Vol. 1, 1913, p. 457.
79
The Pacific Coast Architect, British Columbia, Vol. 11913, p. 186.
80
Seattle Daily Times, New Apartment House Planned, June 6, 1915, p. 18.
63

1922
2025 3rd Ave.81
1925
Hot Springs, MT82
81
Bldg.
Film Exchange/Winnie
Crawford/Path Bldg.
Hunters Hotel
Destroyed by fire 1932
Seattle Daily Times, Building Permits, May 10, 1922, p. 19.

The Philipsburg Mail, Dr. A.J Hunter Developed Hot Springs in Park Country: Old Historical Site Destroyed by Fire
Three Years Ago, June 14, 1935, p. 3.
82

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Restaurant and offices,

Will Nelson, Legacy Commercial LLC

White Company Building

Landmark Nomination Report

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PROPERTY DATA ............................................................................................................................... 2

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ........................................................................................................ 3

Associated Individuals or Groups: ......................................................................................... 8

APPENDIX 1FIGURES ............................................................................................................................. 21

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Figure 1. Location Map .............................................................................................................................. 1

White Company Building

Figure 47. King County Courthouse, 1921 ..............................................................................................

White Company Building

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White Company Building

White Company Building

White Company Building

White Company Building

Woollen Studios Inc.

White Company Building

White Company Building

White Company Building

R. L. Polk Co. Polks Seattle City Directory, 1928.

White Company Building

White Company Building

White Company Building

Recreational Equipment Incorporated (REI), Celebrating 75 Years of Adventure, http://reihistory.com/1970/, accessed

White Company Building

Abraham, pp. 111-123

White Company Building

White Company Building

White Company Building

The Pacific Coast Architect. Seattle. February 1913,

White Company Building

White Company Building

Figure 1. Location Map

White Company Building

City of Seattle City Clerks Office

Figure 2. Capitol Hill Neighborhood Map

White Company Building

City of Seattle Strategic Planning Office

Figure 3. Pike/Pine Neighborhood Plan Area

White Company Building

View referenced in this document

Figure 4. Neighborhood Aerial

White Company Building

The Johnson Partnership, 6-3-14

Figure 5. View AViewing east along E Pine Street

Figure 6. View BViewing west along E Pine Street

White Company Building

The Johnson Partnership, 6-3-14

Figure 7. View CViewing southeast across Bobby Morris Playfield

Figure 8. View DViewing south along 11th Avenue

White Company Building

The Johnson Partnership, 8-2014

Bobby Morris Playfield

Figure 9. Site Plan