Located in a potential historic districe (National and/or local).
The original building, which first housed the Bedford Hotel from
1911 to 1940, was erected in 1911. After World War II,
this building continued to serve as a seamen’s and travelers’
hotel. Restored as an office building in 1967, it was known
in the 1969-70 National Register nomination as the
Pacific Banking Building. Its earlier address was
“67-71 Yesler Way,” but it seems that the address
“ 1 Yesler Way” is now official according to current
King County Records.
The draft of Victor’s Seattle
Register Nomination Form for the Pioneer Square
Historic District and the Pioneer Square Preservation
District Inventory, done by the Seattle Department of
Community Development in 1982 – apparently based on
Steinbrueck’s assessment - both claim that the building was
“restored and rebuilt in 1967.” While the north facing
street level has obviously been redesigned and probably
in the 1960s, the fenestration of the upper level appears
exactly as it does in a King County Property Record card
photo of 1936. Also, the photograph shows that the
parapet did rise at the corners and south elevation of the
building, as it does now, although there were overhangs
that ran the length of the lower parts of the parapet.
All this suggests that,
despite changes in 1967, particularly
at the lower level of the north elevation, the building has
retained much of its fabric and integrity from 1911 or has
been reconstructed so as to retain its essential architectural
characteristics. This is small, three story, brick clad building,
triangular in plan. It has a flat roof and a parapet which
rises at the corners of the building and at the narrow
south elevation. The main elevation faces north and has five
asymmetrically placed arched openings toward the west at the
ground level, which date from a 1967 remodel.
One of these
serves as an entry to a business, currently a restaurant.
Al Boccalino Ristorante.
Above the storefront on the north and on the east and west
elevations, rectangular window openings are placed in a more
or less consistent fashion from elevation to elevation.
They are equally spaced on the east and west elevations and
less regularly on the north elevation, with the first two rows
of windows to the east spaced more closely.
