Year Built: 1916
Architect: Fiske & Meginnis

Built in 1916 on part of the Seaton & Lea Foundry site, this sturdy warehouse is the second Olson Construction Co. project of our tour and the first Fiske & Meginnis design- combining the district’s most prolific contractor and designer.  The brick-clad structure is massively built of reinforced concrete to carry the heavy loads of moving and storage operation.  On the fourth floor are specially heated rooms for the safe year-round storage or pianos.  The loading dock in the first of our tour that is fully sheltered by a canopy- a common feature along 8th Street which adds much to the special flavor of the Haymarket district.  The building is one of the few in the Haymarket to continue in a single function (thought for various owners) from its construction to present.  The single-story addition to the north dates in large part from 1957, but incorporates fragments of an early structure on the site.