Category:Buttnick Building

The Buttnick Building (200 1st Avenue South) was built (and allegedly designed) in 1908-9 by William H. Maud for the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, a national firm that manufactured pool tables, bowling alley equipment and other recreational fixtures. In the wake of the Great Seattle Fire, Maud began construction of an L-shaped building; 30' wide on 1st Avenue with a chamfered corner and 60' facing the alley. The original plans called for a 4-story hotel building clad in stone and crowned with a tower, but only the ground floor was ever completed. The remainder of the lot at 204 1st Avenue S was owned by George Kenyon, who had a simple 3-story brick lodging house constructed. Maud would later buy out Kenyon, reuniting the parcel. According to the building permit issued in October 1908, this building was referred to as an "alteration", indicating that it might still contain the bones of the original 1890 structures.

The Buttnick Building got its current name from a later occupant, the Buttnick Mfg. Co. (Harry Buttnick, manager), which made tents and other camping linens in the building in the 1920s-30s and whose ghost signs still cover its façade. Buttnick moved kitty corner to the Maynard Building in 1936.