11. Southwest Corner of S Jackson Street and 1st Avenue S

This corner marks the original site of the Felker House, the first Seattle building using milled lumber. The two-story framed structure was built by a sea captain and managed as a hotel, restaurant, and brothel by Mary Conklin, a tart-tongued Irishwoman who earned the nickname "Mother (later Madame) Damnable." It is now occupied by the handsome Pacific Marine Schwabacher Building, designed by Charles Bebb and Carl Gould in 1905. A short walk west on Jackson will bring you to the Pioneer Square Post Office and a small museum documenting the Postal Service's early history.

The Schabacher's southern neighbor, Merrill Place, incorporates a 1984 remodel of the Seller and Hambrack buildings. The diminuitive Triangle Hotel (C.A. Breitung, 1910), which once billed itself as the West Coast's smallest hostelry, stands a few blocks farther south on 1st.

Courtesy Paul Dorpat

Courtesy Walt Crowley