by Chan Boswell
The Pacific Apartments
Designed and constructed in 1916 and known previously as the Leamington Hotel, the multidimensional Pacific Hotel was constructed to serve both Seattle’s local and transient population as a traveler’s hotel and apartment building until the early 1970s. Prior to Plymouth purchasing and rehabilitating it, the abandoned hotel gained its certification of historical significance in the early 1990s. Plymouth purchased the Pacific after the opportunity was solidified by a group of protesters who occupied the building to highlight its necessity as low-income housing in 1992.
Haddon Hall
After the near decade-long regrade of Denny Hill in the early 1900s, apartment complexes like Haddon Hall were developed along Third Avenue. Previously known as the Kelley-Gorham apartment building, Haddon was built in 1910 to serve Seattle as multi-family housing. Little is known of its developers, W.R. Kelly and Charles W. Gorham, other than that they may have been a real estate firm. Its exterior facade has remained intact and is a good example of the early masonry construction residential/commercial hybrid building establishments that started to go up in the early 20th century. It was purchased by Plymouth Housing in the late 1990s.
