Remember The Heffernan Building
March 24th, 2010 @ 12:40 am by Cliffe | Sorted Historic Buildings |
This is the Heffernan Building. From what I can gather it stood at 6th & Pine, presumably this would be at the site of the current and penis growth
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| Heffernan Building, Seattle, Washington. Designed by architect John Graham (1873-1955). Photographed March 24, 1966 by Marion Dean Ross. Image courtesy Visual Resources Collection, Architecture & Allied Arts Library, University of Oregon Libraries. |
Based on the alley (which normally run north/south), I’d say this is NOT where the Old Navy (I. Magnin) building is. Is it where Pacific Place is now?
The building that was there before Pacific Place was this scale, though massively remodeled when I knew it (and it housed Rosellini’s 6-Ten).
Say, is “Victor’s” a precursor to the 6-Ten? Seems very likely.
Yes, I’d guess this is the Pacific Place site as well. Notice the shadows, which indicate this building is on the north side of Pine.
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2495
This link shows that it was at 6th and Pine, maybe indeed, on the other side form the Old Navy building, and that it was a Seattle P-I plant in the 1930′s.
Pretty neat.
Vic Rosellini’s Victor’s 610 restaurant was at 610 Pine Street — his Rosellini’s Four-10 was at 410 University Plaza.
Another gorgeous photo of it at night:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm-desmo/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/imlsmohai&CISOPTR=2165&CISOBOX=1&REC=1
Here’s a photo of the building that Old Navy took over. According to the description, it was a 1919 terra cotta building that was completed rehauled over, so it was never torn down per se. It doesn’t mention the PI was there or the name Heffernan.
http://web1.seattle.gov/dpd/historicalsite/QueryResult.aspx?ID=-1866975847
It looks like the Victor’s 610 was roughly where the Tiffany’s is today. The J.Crew is about where an alley between two buildings was.
The Heffernan Building was on the north side of Pine. The building was remodeled sometime after the time the photograph was taken. It new face was a new red brick facade and was the downtown home to Klopfensteins men’s clothing retailer (sold in 1992) and Victor’s Rosellini’s 610 restaurant, established 1950. All businesses had vacated the building by the mid 1990′s and the site was cleared for the building of Pacific Place.
Yeah, this is the old Klopensteins Men’s store, isn’t it?
It is the Klopfenstein’s location too, yes. Across the street (where Old Navy rents now) was a rather distinctively styled branch of San Francisco’s swanky I. Magnin.
Was this also the site of the rug store Pande Cameron? I seem to remember it up in those arched windows…
I want to chime in and say that Casimir cleaners is in the right-hand corner and I have been going there for years, they’ve moved several times though and not sure if I ever went to them when they were at the location in the picture. Would this building be on 6th Avenue but in the present site right south on 6th from Pike Street? I think that may be a possibility, I remember a low level building similar to this with small shops and it was directly south of I Magnin on 6th Avenue.
Argh…I’ve read over the comments above and scratch some of what I’ve said above. I think the photographer is facing east and the traffic in the picture is heading west on Pike Street, and the intersection is 6th Avenue. So it is directly across Pike Street from the entrance of Old Navy. What exists there now and what you’d be looking at in a modern view is the Main Entrance on Pike Street to Pacific Place.
Yea, this was Pande Cameron most recently. I believe the hole across the street Tower 801 (still a hole there?).
This is the current site of Pacific Place, at the Northeast corner of 6th & Pine. Pande Cameron was not ever in this building as far as I remember – it was across the street and up a few blocks, near the Paramount Theatre. This building was re-faced in Red Brick (in the 60′s?), and Klopfenstein’s was right on the corner, across from I. Magnin and Frederick & Nelson.