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.

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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, and painted on the exterior. The lines left by the board forms are evident on the exterior.

 According to the plan, the building was organized into four discrete sections on each floor separated by east-west concrete walls running the full width of the building, presumably for fire control as well as structural requirements.
Pg 7 The original structure was completed in 1910
Pg 12 The Pacific Warehouse Company, which may have been incorporated prior to 1903 and reorganized in Washington State by 1908, was led by Edmund Cardin, president, and W. W. Williams, W. J. Hamlet, and Stephen A. Hull as officers. Several of these men were already involved in the commission business. Later, in the early 1920s, the Pacific Warehouse Company (by that time led by president Stephen Hull) built and operated the eleven-story Terminal Sales Building (Henry Bittman, 1923) at First Avenue and Virginia Street (and a designated Seattle landmark).15 The Pacific Warehouse Company’s offices were relocated to the Terminal Sales Building, where they remained, managing it and the subject building until at least the late 1940s.


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The Maritime Building was sold and upgraded -
Daily Journal Of Commerce http://www.djc.com/news/re/12112780.html
Good historic information -
July 13, 2018 After rehab and expansion, Beacon sells Maritime Building for $186M
After the 2015 sale, Beacon proposed an eight-story addition, which was rejected by the Landmarks Preservation Board in 2016, after the building was landmarked.
Beacon then changed its plan to a three-story addition, working with architect NBBJ and Turner Construction.
The building now has eight stories and 187,000 square feet of offices, which were fully leased to Big Fish Games in 2016.

New post stabilizing the building in the recent renovation. 

Maritime Building today per plan

Jim Anunson memories - 

In the late 1950’s or early 60’s the owner I remember was a Mr Hull. I remember he was a laughing cigar smoking fellow who dad easily worked for as Maintenance Man for the building. Mr Hull died suddenly and the building was in receivership or some such and managed by Mr Williams who was with an insurance company. Mr Williams managed the building for several years and as I understand dad had to help with collecting rent and such at times. Then Dr Hodson purchased the building and dad worked easily with him for many years. Dad likely worked at that spot for maybe 30 years. He totally had ownership of that job scheduling much of the work himself. Each morning he would tour the building greeting everyone opening some doors of the tenant businesses to say hello. He checked for building conditions, like burned out lights and too much trash on the loading dock. Then after a coffee break he would begin his work ending with a project on hand like creating  new office out of warehouse space or installing florescent fixtures.