Maritime Building
The Maritime Building is on the right which was on the waterfront. I suspect the near road is wood on piling with railroad tracts running along the waterfront. When I worked at the building in the 1960’s the wood was gone and there was a 3 foot drop from the buildings landing and the road surface on the western -seaward side of the building. ________________________________ from Seattle.gov - https://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/Neighborhoods/HistoricPreservation/Landmarks/CurrentNominations/LPBCurrentNom_MaritimeBuilding.pdf Pg 6 The building is five stories in height with a basement consisting of a single floor. According to drawings on file, floor to floor heights are 9 foot 7 inches at the basement, 16 foot 5 at the first floor, 12 feet at the second through fourth floors, and 13 foot 6 at the fifth floor to top of roof (with a 3 foot parapet). Exterior walls are load-bearing cast-in-place concrete, plastered and painted, or simply painted, on the interior,...