Category:1012 First Avenue, Seattle

English: 1012 First Avenue, Seattle, Washington. Known from the late 1890s to the late 1900s as the Standard Building and throughout the 20th century as the Struve Building and later the Meves Building; Landmarked as the Schoenfeld Building but now known again as the Standard Building, the first 3 floors were built during the summer of 1891 by real estate developer, Interurban railway founder and Beacon Hill promoter Fred E. Sander as an investment property. When completed that August the first tenants were the Fred Gasch stove & tinware shop occupying the southern 2/3rds and the Washington Rubber Company in the remainder. Louis Schoenfeld leased the building in 1897 for his expanding furniture store, the Standard Furniture Co. The top 2 floors and a new façade were added in 1899 by architects Thompson & Thompson and within a few years the store would expand into a building built to the south in 1901, now demolished. By the end of the decade they had outgrown this store and built the massive Broadacres Building at Second and Pine. Central Loan, once Seattle's oldest pawn shop, operated out of the building from the 1950s until the mid 2010s, when the building underwent rehabilitation.

Much of this information can be found in the Seattle Department of Neigborhoods' Seattle Historical Sites database Summary for 1012 1st AVE / Parcel ID 0939000530, though they were apparently not aware of the 2-stage construction and that page dates from the era when the building still was known as the Schoenfeld Building and housed Central Loan.