File:Seattle Post-Intelligencer's first building, ca 1881 (MOHAI 6108).jpg

English:

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the descendant of two early newpapers. The Weekly Intelligencer began publishing in 1867 and became a daily newspaper in 1876. The Post was started in 1878 and merged with the Intellligencer in 1881. This photo of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's first building was taken on Mill Street around 1881. Mill Street is now called Yesler Way. The tower of Providence Hospital can be seen in the background.

Original copy negative. Original photograph: ca. 1881. Copied after 1902 by Webster & Stevens

• Subjects (LCTGM): Newspaper industry; Office buildings

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The statement about this being the Post-Intelligencer's first building, and on Mill Street, is almost certainly wrong. Other sources (e.g. http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15015coll4/id/3188) say this was the home of Leigh and Lizzie Hunt on 4th Avenue and Columbia, where the P-I was temporarily based right after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. File:Fourth and Marion, 1914 (3290167769).gif shows this house (in rather dilapidated condition) in 1914, after it had been moved a block.