Category:Cheasty Building (Seattle)

English: The Cheasty Building at the Northwest corner of Second Avenue and Spring Street, was built by local lumber baron Cyrus Walker in 1899 as a 3-story loft building. He had 2 more floors added in 1902 by architects Boone & Corner. The building was occupied for a few years by one of Seattle's leading men's stores, Cheasty's Haberdashery, though by late 1903 it had become G.L. Holmes Furniture Company. In 1921 the building was purchased by the Washington Mutual Savings Bank who took over the ground floor with a new John Graham-designed bank facade, with Cheasty's relocating to the second floor. In 1939 the bank began a total remodel of the building by architect C.E. Merriam, reducing it to two stories and sheathing it in art deco terracotta and granite. The bank would demolish the building in 1968 during the second phase of construction of their new Paul Thiry-designed headquarters building, which still occupies the site today.