File:Seattle - Northwest Fixture and Electric Co. - 1900.jpg

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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 76001888.

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English: "Exterior of building occupied by the Northwest Fixture Co.", from brochure Seattle and the Orient (1900). According to accompanying text, this was "…probably the largest electrical supply concern on the [West] Coast", and occupied "the entire four stories of the building at 1018 First Avenue and three floors of the Starr building across the street".

A large sign on the building says "The Northwest / Fixture and / Electric Co."

The building is now known as the Holyoke Building, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, ID #76001888.
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p. 149 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. The photo is uncredited.
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Object location47° 36′ 20″ N, 122° 20′ 05″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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