The Occidental Fine Arts building wears a facade of rounded Romanesque arches carved deep into rough-hewn Chuckanut sandstone. When architect William E. Boone finished this block in eighteen ninety, Seattle was still rebuilding from the Great Fire of the previous year. He designed it as a hub for artists and merchants, filling the upper floors with studios that caught the northern light. A decade later, the building served as a headquarters for miners heading north to join the Klondike Gold Rush.
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