File:Seattle - Lincoln Apartments under construction - 1900.jpg

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English: "The Lincoln Apartment House. / Fourth and Madison—Seven stories, stone and white pressed brick—under construction by the Moore Investment Co." from brochure Seattle and the Orient (1900). Moore Investment Co. was J.A. Moore, best known today for the Moore Theatre and Hotel.
The Lincoln Apartment House was once "the first and finest apartment house west of Chicago," (Jacqueline Williams, Capitol Hill: A New Seattle Neighborhood, Courtesy of J. A. Moore, Columbia, magazine of the Washington State Historical Society, Spring 2002, Vol. 16, No. 1). It later became the Lincoln Hotel, but burned April 7, 1920. See annotated photo Fire at Lincoln Hotel, Seattle, April 7, 1920 on the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections. An account of the fire is included in SFD History: 1910-1920, Seattle Fire Department (relevant passage begins "Despite the efforts of the Fire Marshal's Office personnel…").
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p. 137 of Seattle and the Orient (more properly, Seattle …and the… Orient), a 1900 "souvenir" pamphlet edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen and published by The Times Printing Company (that is, the Seattle Times).

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Author Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen. Photo is uncredited.
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