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March 27, 2020 City of Seattle Landmarks March 27, 2020 City of Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board 600 4th Avenue, 4th Floor Seattle, WA 98124 Attention: Ms. Sarah Sodt, City Historic Preservation Officer Re: Booth Building, Seattle, Landmark Nomination Supplemental Information Dear Ms. Sodt: At the nomination hearing for the Booth Building, located at 1534 Broadway Avenue, the Landmarks Preservation Board (LPB) members requested additional information on the several topics. The topics included: Additional information on early tenant and music educator, Nellie Cornish Additional information on the influence of women in the music and arts community around the time of the Booth Building construction Additional information on other Booth Building tenants, especially arts educators and teachers Expanded list of other buildings designed by the building architects, Thompson and Thompson Buildings As your request I am providing the attached memo, which I believe provides the supplemental information requested. One board member also requested more images of the building and the architectural changes over time. Those images will be presented at the designation hearing, when that is scheduled. Please let me know if you need any additional information at this time. Sincerely, Rhoda A.R. Lawrence, AIA, Principal cc: Robert Baca, Capitol Hill Housing; Paul Ramirez, YouthCare; and Stephanie Hsie, Weinstein A|U MEMORANDUM DATE: March 27, 2020 RE: Booth Building Landmark Nomination Supplemental Information TO: Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board and Sarah Sodt, City of Seattle Preservation Officer FROM: Rhoda Lawrence, AIA, Principal Booth Building Architects - Thompson and Thompson, Additional Buildings As noted in the landmark nomination for the Booth Building, it was designed by the father and son architectural team of Thompson & Thompson. As also noted, the firm was established in 1899 by Charles Lawton Thompson (1842–1927) and Charles Bennett Lawton (1873- 1956). Prior to moving to Seattle, the elder Thompson practiced in Vineland, NJ, and in Salt Lake City , UT, where he designed the Harmon and Telluride Buildings and St. Marks’ Hospital (ca 18720; the Agricultural College at Logan (now Utah State University), and the Reed Hotel Building in Ogden.1 The firm practiced until about 1927, after which Charles B. Thompson practiced on his own until circa 1936. The Booth Building was completed in 1906, relatively early in their career, seven years after establishing their Seattle practice. Review of numerous archival Seattle Times documents, the Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD), and an undated monograph (provided by Historic Seattle) indicates that Thompson and Thompson designed numerous residences for prominent doctors, bankers and merchants (many quite elaborate), churches2, and commercial business, a substantial number in Seattle’s International District. As is abundantly clear from the previous list of buildings and as supplemented here, Thompson and Thompson were both prolific and versatile in their approach, designing various project and building types in a wide range of styles, seeming to respond to the fashion of the times and desires of their clients. Many of the apartments and commercial buildings were quite simple, while other projects reflected contemporary tastes and high-style design. In addition to the Booth Building, the following is list of their many of their commissions (some of which are no longer extant): Single Family Residences 1. J.W. Roberts Residence (1901, altered), 168 Highland Drive3 2. C.E. Thurston Residence (1901), 1818 14th Avenue4 1 The Thompson and Thompson monograph attributes several residential and commercial buildings to Thompson and Thompson; many of these have not been confirmed or located, and are noted as such 2 The Thompson and Thompson Monograph cites churches among their commissions, but only the religious buildings in Seattle attributed to them are two synagogues (see list) 3 Seattle Times. “Real Estate & Building News.” December 21, 1901, p. 15, and Thompson and Thompson monograph Page 1 of 8 SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION PAGE 2 of 8 DATE: March 27, 2020 REMARKS (cont.): 3. J.R. Booth Residence (1905), 1014 14th Ave E.5 4. Huessy Residence (1906), 161 30th Ave6 5. S. Frauenthal Residence (1902)7 6. Singerman Residence/Gaslight Inn (1907) 1727 15th Avenue (City of Seattle Landmark) 7. Galbraith Residence (1902 – 1904; demolished; City of Seattle Landmark) 1729 17th Avenue 8. G.A. L’Abbe Residence (from monograph, date unknown) 9. W. T. Whitney Residence (from monograph, date unknown) 10. Sidelsky Residence (from monograph, date unknown) 11. N. H Latimer Residence (from monograph, date unknown) 12. H. Pederson Residence (from monograph, date unknown) 13. J. Frauenthal Residence (1902), 17th and E. Madison8 14. A.J. Laurie Residence (from monograph, date unknown) 15. C. Allen Dale Residence (from monograph, date unknown) Apartments 1. Hallett Apartments (from monograph, date unknown) 2. Monmouth Apartments/Clairemont Apartments (1909), 2014 E. Yesler Way9 3. Overnell Apartments (from monograph, date unknown) 4. Raymond Apartments (from monograph, date unknown) 5. Martin Apartments (1914), 1415 Republican Religious Buildings 1. Bikur Cholim Synagogue/Langston Hughes Cultural Center (completed by B. M. Priteca) 2. Herzl Synagogue (from monograph, date unknown) Commercial Buildings 1. Schoenfeld Building (1899), 198 Pine, altered10 2. Samuel Rosenberg Family Hotel/Livingston Building (1901)11 3. J. Laurie Building (from monograph, date unknown) 4. Low Building (1908)* 5. Japanese Club House (from monograph, date unknown) 6. W.D. Hofius Building (from monograph, date unknown) 7. Lewis C. Cohn Building (from monograph, date unknown) 8. Boyd Building (from monograph, date unknown) 9. Silver Okum Building (1910), 1530-34 Pike Place12 4 Seattle Daily Times. “Building Permits.” May 26, 1901, p. 15 5 Seattle Daily Times. “Building Permits.” April 26, 1905, p. 15, and Thompson and Thompson monograph. 6 Seattle Times. “Building Permits.” August 24, 1906, p. 18. 7 Seattle Daily Times. “Building Permits.” July 20, 1902, p. 24, and Thompson and Thompson monograph. 8 Ibid. 9 Seattle Times. “Monmouth Apartments Just Completed at Cost of $110,000.” July 18, 1909, p. 35 10 Jeffrey Ochsner attributes multiple buildings by Thompson and Thompson in his book, Shaping Seattle Architecture, which are noted here, although some have not been confirmed or located. Those entries are noted with a *. 11 Improvement Bulletin, Volume 23, Chapin Publishing Company, 1900 12 Seattle Times. “Plans Under Way for Many New Buildings.” November 28, 1909, p. 37. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION PAGE 3 of 8 DATE: March 27, 2020 REMARKS (cont.): 10. East Kong Yick Building/Wing Luke Museum (1909 - 1910), 715-725 S. King Street 11. West Kong Yick Building (1910), SE corner 7th Ave S. & S. King Street 12. Bing Kung Tong/New American Hotel (1915 – 1916), 520 S. King 13. Goon Dip Young Building/Milwaukee Hotel (1911), 664 S. King Street 14. City Stables (from monograph, date unknown) 15. Nippon Kan Building (1907, altered)* 16. Satori Building/Moses Building (1900 – 1901), 312 2nd Avenue, altered 17. Columbia City 2-story store & office building (1912), 4851-53 Rainier Ave S. 18. Columbia City 2-story commercial building (1914), 4914 Rainier Ave S. 19. Tokiwa Hotel/Evergreen Apartments (1916), 651-661 S. Jackson Street The Booth Building was designed in the Mission Revival style, with ubiquitous elements of that style, such as stucco cladding, deep overhangs, curvilinear parapets and quatrefoil decorations, on the upper floors. The ground floor storefront lacked those stylistic elements, instead incorporating the large wood framed display windows and true-divided light transoms, typical of other commercial structures of the time. Other buildings in the Mission Revival style by Thompson and Thompson have not been discovered. Music and Studio Buildings in Seattle, 1890s to 1912 In the years both before and after the completion of the Booth Building in 1906, there were a few other unique buildings that provided upper floor studios and offices for individuals and small organizations. They included the following: Holyoke Building/Block, was constructed in 1889 – 1890, and was six stories tall. Within ten years of its completion, it had become the nexus for the musical and drama scene in Seattle, providing spaces for artists, especially musicians, to perform, and studios in which to work and live. A popular music instructor and early building tenant, Louise C. Beck, promoted the building to other musicians, including Nellie Cornish, who opened a studio there in 1900 when she arrived in Seattle. Many of the teachers Cornish met there later joined the faculty at her Cornish School.13 (Of note, the 1890 Polk Directory also lists the offices of both Dr. William G. Booth and Dr. John R. Booth in the Holyoke Building, at the corner of 1st and Jackson.) Eilers Music House Building (later became Chickering Hall/Montelius Music House) circa 1907, was on the site of the current Benaroya Hall. At eight stories tall, it was one of the tallest of the studio buildings and was first named for the building’s founder, D.S. Johnson, who stocked the store with what was promised to be the “largest shipment of high-grade pianos ever made west of Chicago.”14 The building served as a retail music store on the ground floors; teachers and musicians rented spaces above, along with other services such as dentists, brokers, accountants and physical surgeons. Eiler’s billed itself as the largest musical establishment in America. In 1914, the same year as the opening of the Cornish School of Music, there were 29 listings for music teachers in the Eilers Music House, out of the total of 285, about 10%. International Order of Odd Fellows Building (I.O.O.F), nearby the Booth Building at 915 E. Pine, dates from 1908. The four-story building was built as a social club with retail on the ground 13 The Autobiography of Nellie C. Cornish, p. 65. 14 Seattle Daily Times, advertisement, August 11, 1907, p. 11. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION PAGE 4 of 8 DATE: March 27, 2020 REMARKS (cont.): floor, and offered meeting rooms, apartments and offices for lease.
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