The Cobb Building is an eleven-story building in
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...
, Washington. It was the third structure in Seattle's
Metropolitan Tract
The Metropolitan Tract is an area of land in downtown Seattle owned by the University of Washington.[Howells & Stokes
Howells & Stokes was an American architectural firm founded in 1897 by John Mead Howells and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes. The firm dissolved in 1917.
Howells & Stokes designed, among other structures, St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University; Wo ...]
architectural firm designed the building and sent
Albert H. Albertson to supervise its 1909-1910 construction. Sculpted Native American ornaments at the 9th and 10th floor cornice are attributed to
Victor G. Schneider. An early example of a high-rise medical office center, the Cobb Building later became commercial office space and recently was renovated for apartments.
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Cobb Apartments
Residential skyscrapers in Seattle
Downtown Seattle
1910s architecture in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Seattle
Office buildings completed in 1910
Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
Terracotta sculptures in the United States
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