Chauncey B. Seaton (March 14, 1848 - December 2, 1896) was an architect in the U.S. He was born near

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, studied at

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and then at a technical school in Chicago. He worked as an architect in

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before returning to Chicago and working in

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. He ventured out to what was then known as Spokane Falls after the

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and designed the Spokesman-Review building in Spokane, Washington in 1890. Some sources credit him with the Northwest Industrial Exposition Building constructed in 1890, but others credit

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C. Ferris White worked with him.

Spokane-Review building

After the Spokane Fire of 1889, Chauncey B. Seaton designed the Spokane-Review building with an irregular shape to fit the shape of the lot. He left Spokane before the Spokesman-Review building was completed. It housed both the Spokesman-Review and the Spokane Daily Chronicle, both owned by Cowles of the Cowles Company, until the Daily Chronicle Building was completed next door in 1928. He died December 2, 1896 after a long period of illness.

Work

*Spokane Falls Review building ( The Spokesman-Review building) *Northwest Industrial Exposition building (burned) *State Normal School at Cheney (destroyed in the

1891 State Normal School at Cheney fire The 1891 State Normal School at Cheney fire was a conflagration on the morning of August 27, 1891, that consumed the only building then housing the State Normal School at Cheney in Cheney, Washington. There were no deaths, but the destruction of t ...

) *Pioneer block of Boise *H. B. Wadsworth residence *H. M. Stephens residence *Rufus Merriam residence *W R. Orndorff residence *J. H. Vagin residence *Six cottages for E. L. Shannon *McQuillan Block in St. Paul, Minnesota

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Seaton, Chauncey 1848 births 19th-century American architects 1896 deaths People from Bucyrus, Ohio