January 2004: A Compendium of Potential Landmarks Downtown
By Mimi Sheridan and Historic Seattle's Advocacy Committee

Additional downtown area buildings that are potentially significant and are not City of Seattle Landmarks. Some eligibility information gathered from the files at Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. Some of these listings were identified in the Environmental Impact Statement for the Seattle Commons (Tobin, C. and Hart-Crowser, 1994.) Draft environmental impact statement for the Seattle Commons/South Lake Union Plan: Technical Appendix 15: Historic and cultural resources study. Prepared for NBBJ, Seattle, Washington. Submitted to the City of Seattle Office of Management and Planning.

Baillaergeon: 1100-08 Second Avenue

Catholic Seamen's Club: 2330 First Avenue

Centennial Building: 1900-10 Fourth Avenue

Central Building: 810 Third Avenue

Chamber of Commerce: 215 Columbia Street

Compton Lumber: 2315 Western Avenue

Davenport Apartments: 420 Vine Street

Devonshire Apartments: 420 Wall Street

Diller Hotel/Porter-Davis: 1220 First Avenue

Eitel Building (also, Nimmer Building): 1501 Second Avenue

Fifth Avenue Court: 2132 Fifth Avenue

Foster and Marshall: 720 Second Avenue

IBM Building: 1200 Fifth Avenue

Labor Temple: 2800 First Avenue

Lexington-Concord Apartments: 2402 Second Avenue

Lewiston Hotel: 2205 First Avenue

Lyon Building: 607 Third Avenue (NRHP listed)

Maritime Building: 911 Western Avenue

Mayflower Park: 405 Olive Way

Medical Dental Building: 509 Olive Way

MGM/Blu Canary: 2331 Second Avenue

Norton Building: 801 Second Avenue

Old Spaghetti Factory: 2800 Elliott Avenue

Pacific Lincoln-Mercury: 601 Westlake Avenue North

Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building: Third Avenue and Seneca Street

Pathe: 2325 Third Avenue

Rainier Tower: 1301 Fifth Avenue

Rivoli Apartments: 2127 Second Avenue

Roq la Rue Gallery: 2312 Second Avenue

Scargo: 2205 First Avenue

Seattle Trust: 804 Second Avenue

Securities Building: 1904 Third Avenue

Skyway Luggage: 2501 Elliott Avenue

Terminal Sales Annex: 1931 Second Avenue

Two Bells Tavern: 2315 Fourth Avenue

Union Livery Stable: 2200 Western Avenue

University Women's Club: 1105 Sixth Avenue

Vance Building: 1402 Third Avenue

William Tell Hotel: 2327 Second Avenue

Woolworth's: 1418 Third Avenue (has been reviewed and denied individual landmark status by the City of Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board)

YWCA: 1201 Third Avenue

Numerous hotels and apartment buildings, especially in Belltown.

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