Washington Pioneer Hall, date unknown, view S. E. 43rd & Blaine Str. E. Photo shows two-story brick building with arched windows and “Washington Pioneer Hall” carved near top. Sign on side says “Olympic Boat Works.” Image courtesy Washington State Digital Archives.

Architectural drawing of the White Building by Howells & Stokes, 1908. Part of the master-planned Metropolitan Tract — the Cobb Building is the only one standing today. Demolished 1974. Image courtesy U.W. University Libraries Digital Collection.

Trinity Church, Everett Washington. Architectural rendering, 1919-1921, Edward Osborn, Seattle Washington. Image courtesy U.W. University Libraries Digital Collection.

The beautiful and peaceful entrance to the St. James Cathedral, Seattle, Washington. Ektachrome by Max R. Jensen. Circa 1950′s or 1960′s.

Mutual Life Building, Seattle, Washington. Photo by Marion Dean Ross, May 4, 1974. Image courtesy University of Oregon Libraries, Architecture of Oregon & the Pacific Northwest.

Mutual Life Building, Seattle, Washington. Photo by Marion Dean Ross, May 4, 1974. Image courtesy University of Oregon Libraries, Architecture of Oregon & the Pacific Northwest.

Architectural study of proposed development for Second Avenue, Seattle. 1925-1935 by John Graham & Company. Image courtesy University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division.

The Torrington. Architectural rendering, 1935, Edward Osborn, Seattle Washington. There is no record that The Torrington was ever built. Image courtesy U.W. University Libraries Digital Collection.

Architectural drawing of alterations & additions for the Rainier Club. Architect: Bebb & Gould, 1928. The Rainier Club was founded by Judge Thomas Burke, E.M. Carr, and W.A. Peters as a social club and boarding house for men in 1888. The current building was erected in the early 1900′s. It was designed by Spokane-based architects Kirtland K. Cutter and Karl G. Malmgren in the Jacobean-style and modeled after Aston Hall in Birmingham, England. Beginning in 1919, architect Carl F. Gould designed several additions to the club, including a complementary south wing and a new entrance in 1929. Image courtesy U.W. University Libraries Digital Collection.

Architectural study of Frederick & Nelson department store addition. 1949-1950. Frederick & Nelson was originally built in 1916 in the terra cotta clad steel frame structure typical of the sort done in Chicago at the turn of the century. It was later altered vertically and lost its original cornice. John Graham, Jr. was assisted by the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in the redesign of the Frederick & Nelson department store starting in 1946. John Graham, Jr. had taken over the firm upon his father’s retirement that same year. During the remodel three s toreys were added to the existing five-storey structure, shipping and receiving concourse w as removed from the street level to basement, and new elevators and a natural day-like lighting system on the main floor was installed. Image courtesy U.W. University Libraries Digital Collection.

Architectural study of Frederick & Nelson department store addition. February 1949. Frederick & Nelson was originally built in 1916 in the terra cotta clad steel frame structure typical of the sort done in Chicago at the turn of the century. It was later altered vertically and lost its original cornice. John Graham, Jr. was assisted by the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in the redesign of the Frederick & Nelson department store starting in 1946. John Graham, Jr. had taken over the firm upon his father’s retirement that same year. During the remodel three storeys were added to the existing five-storey structure, shipping and receiving concourse was removed from the street level to basement, and new elevators and a natural day-like lighting system on the main floor was installed. Image courtesy U.W. University Libraries Digital Collection.