Comments on: Bittersweet Henry Jackson Federal Building

By: vicky

vicky — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:19:31 +0000

although i have only gotten to walk in your fair city just a handful of times, i an enamored by this building. I have not the pleasure of walking up and down its graceful steps yet but when i move here it will be one of the first things i do. i know you natives consider it just a building that makes you think you have lost some of it’s former glory and that is is not worthy of the Seattle you “see”. it is not on any of the tourist registers as i believe it should be for it’s stairways. the life that surrounds the nondescript skyscraper is what gets me. you all get to run and jump and walk on those stairs as you live your busy city lives.

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By: John

John — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:49:25 +0000

I worked in the old Burke Buidling in the 1960′s. It was a beautiful old six story structure completed in 1890. You can see an early photograph of the building at the following site:

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM16D0_Burke_Building

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:28:02 +0000

By old boss worked on the building. The entire facade was designed as brick, Which may explain some of the proportions. I think they switched to precast to save money.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:24:30 +0000

Cool thanks!

I work across the street in the Wells Fargo Bldg and spend all day looking past this building at the water, mountains, and ferries (yes, I love my cubicle). You’re right – it’s not a horrible building, but what a shame that we lost those buildings it replaced.

By: Cliffe

Cliffe — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:05:50 +0000

Matt: That should have read Burke Building only. Fixed.

Dave: Updated the post with links to the former buildings.

Cliffe

By: dave

dave — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:34:05 +0000

Any pics of the buildings it replaced?

By: Matt the Journeyman

Matt the Journeyman — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:59:41 +0000

Jess,
I was aware that the front arch from the Burke Bldg. was spared and incorporated in the plaza, but you mention remnants of the other buildings. What are those?

By: Brian Lutz

Brian Lutz — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:57:54 +0000

I used to work across from the street from this one, and as far as soul-crushing monoliths of godless bureaucracy go, this one’s actually not all that bad. Given the fact that this was a (most likely) lowest-bidder project from the mid-Seventies, the results could definitely have been worse…