The building at 914 2nd Avenue, built 1904-1906, demolished no later than 1983, was variously known as "American Savings Bank/Empire Building", "American Savings Bank and Trust Company Building" and "American Bank Building". The block is now the site of the Wells Fargo Center (originally, I believe, First Interstate Bank Building). There a mention of the building in the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods' page on the nearby (and extant) Mehlorn Building; the latter also written at times Mehlhorn, Melhorn.
Clarence Bagley's History of Seattle: from the earliest settlement to the present time (1916, p. 637) says, "the first reinforced (with steel) concrete structures in Seattle were the American Bank and Empire buildings, which connect and were built by the American Savings Bank and Judge Burke. A. Warren Gould [who was not the Gould of Bebb and Gould] was the architect, and now, in 1915, he is engaged in erecting a $1,000,000 courthouse for King County."
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