File:Seattle - Oriental Building 1905.jpg

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English: Oriental Building (also known as Oriental Block), 606 2nd Ave. Seattle, Washington, 1905. This was the Corona Hotel. It was restored in 2000 and now contains loft housing and street-level retail space. See http://www.smrarchitects.com/?p=market_rate&name=corona_hotel.
The white-on-black lettering is not part of the actual building, it was added by Polk's.
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Source Polk's Seattle City Directory, 1905, p. 30. Photographed digitally from a copy in the Seattle Room at the downtown Seattle Public Library, then cleaned with GIMP.
Author Unknown, possibly Webster & Stevens
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current04:40, 16 November 2008Thumbnail for version as of 04:40, 16 November 20082,094 × 2,112 (1.39 MB)Jmabel (talk | contribs)== Summary == {{Information |Description=Oriental Building (also known as Oriental Block), Seattle, Washington, 1905. I believe this was at 917 Second Avenue, in the block now (2008) occupied by the Wells Fargo Bank building. The white-on-black lettering

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