1411 Fourth Avenue Building

Architect
Robert Reamer
Style
Art Deco
City
Seattle, WA
Collection
seattle deco
1411 Fourth Avenue Building
Photo: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0
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The 1411 Fourth Avenue Building is a 15-story-plus-basement Art Deco tower built in 1928 for the Stimson Realty Company, under the direction of the Metropolitan Building Company, for $1.1 million. Contractors Teufel & Carlson erected the entire structure in seven months, setting a record for a building of its size, to designs by architect Robert Reamer.

the building

Seven-month construction. Teufel & Carlson, the contractors, completed the full 15-story-plus-basement building in just seven months in 1928, a record pace for a building of its size.

Corner site. The building occupies the northwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Union Street, with its main entrance at 1411 Fourth Avenue.

the style

The building is designed in the Art Deco style, completed in 1928.

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the architect

Robert C. Reamer, known for the Old Faithful Inn, served as architect for the building.

significance

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 28, 1991 (ID #91000633). From 1997 to 2012, its ground floor housed a Tully's Coffee flagship store, closed after Tully's bankruptcy filing. In 2016, the building sold to the Onni Group for $29.6 million.

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