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Dodge Building

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Dodge Building. Built by Charles Dodge, this building originally had three separate storefronts. The businesses that operated here included Menzo LaPorte’s Barbershop & Poolroom, a grocery, a radio shop, and several jewelers. Many of the building’s early tenants were women: jeweler Emma Bedow, optician Nellie Bedow, and milliners Mrs. Brown and Jennie Sessions. In the 1920s and 1930s Ed Kinnee operated the Columbia Drug store on the corner. Pharmacist Russ Stiles dispensed medicines in the back, and a soda fountain counter occupied the front.

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A single story brick building built in 1908 for a total of $4,000 ($113,000 in 2020 dollars!) The owner of this building was Charles B. Dodge, and was a real estate agent in the seattle area from 1906 to 1910. The first buisness to operate in the building was The Gardener and LaPorte Barber Shop and Pool Room, a single buisness which operated from 1917, but moved in 1929, by Menzo C. Laporte until he retired in the 1960s. Other buisnesses of note were a a tailor in 1916, jewelry store in 1916, grocery 1911, and a drug store from the 1920s to 1930s.

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National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Seattle Government. December 16th 2004. Accessed September 23rd 2020. http://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/Neighborhoods/HistoricPreservation/HistoricDistricts/ColumbiaCity/ColumbiaCity-National-Register-Nomination.pdf.

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