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Northcliffe Apartments Destroyed

February 26th, 2008 @ 11:37 pm by Cliffe | Sorted Historic Buildingsborder
Your daily commute down Boren Ave just got a little emptier. Holly Birge sent in this depressing camera phone photograph and word that the Northcliffe Apartment Building is indeed gone — destroyed. I profiled the Northcliffe here last month. The large brick apartment building loomed over boren for over 80 years and will now be replaced with a Virginia Mason hospital wing. Thanks to Holly for sending in the photograph, as sad as it is.
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Where the Northcliffe Apartment building used to stand, Boren & Seneca. Photograph courtesy Holly Birge.

3 Responses:

  1. Ben Lukoff wrote:

    Too bad they couldn’t have reused the building or at least maintained the facade. Looks from their campus like they USED to do that….oh well.

  2. Jack wrote:

    The hospital owned and operated the apartments as housing for families of patients from out of state when I worked there. Perhaps their growth will continue this tradition.

  3. didi wrote:

    Oh, man, it was the one that had your name on it, Cliffe!

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