Hull Building
- Architect
- Elmer H. Fisher
- Year
- 1889
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- City
- Seattle, WA
- Collection
- pioneer square romanesque
The Hull Building — also known as the A-1 Laundry Building — was built in 1889 at 2401-2405 1st Avenue as an investment property for Seattle politician Alonzo Hull, a Pennsylvania-born Civil War veteran who'd arrived in the city only a year earlier. Designed by Elmer H. Fisher, one of the busiest architects rebuilding Seattle after its fires, it's a Romanesque Revival landmark in Belltown, standing beside the Battery Street Tunnel's south portal.
the building
Alonzo Hull's civic career. Alonzo Hull bought the corner lot for $13,000 from Dr. Edward C. Kilbourne in February 1889, then went on to serve on the Seattle City Council through the 1890s, where he helped establish the city's water system and secured the Cedar River watershed as Seattle's primary water source.
Kitty-corner from Bell's hotel. The building sits kitty-corner from the site of William Bell's grand hotel, which formed the nucleus of early development in what became the Belltown neighborhood.
the style
Built in 1889 in the Romanesque Revival style, the Hull Building reflects the heavy masonry and round-arched vocabulary common to Seattle's rebuilding boom of the late 1880s.
More on Romanesque Revivalthe architect
Elmer H. Fisher was one of the most prolific architects working in Seattle in the years after the city's great fire, and the Hull Building is one of his Romanesque Revival commissions.
significance
The Hull Building is an individually designated Seattle City Landmark (#90) and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- Barnes Building
- Bell Apartments
- Windham Apartments
- Calhoun Hotel
- Moore Theatre and Hotel Building
- Butterworth Building