Elizabeth and Martin Stacy home, 3rd and Marion, Seattle, 1885 (MOHAI 9517)

In 1885 real estate investor Martin Van Buren Stacy (1837-1901) and his wife, Elizabeth A. Briggs Stacy (1824-1904), spent approximately $50,000 to erect their second home in Seattle, located at Third Avenue and Marion Street, in the grand French Second Empire style. After the Stacys moved out in 1889, the house was briefly used by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, then was converted into a sumptuous boarding house. In 1925 Charles Joseph Ernest Blanc turned the mansion into what many considered to be Seattle's best restaurant, La Maison Blanc, until the building was destroyed in a 1960 fire.
This image shows the Stacy mansion on the northeast corner of Third Avenue and Marion Street, probably during construction, judging by the lack of windows.
Printed on verso: Dorsaz & Schwerin, Kenyon Block, Cor. Front and Madison Sts., Seattle, W. T.

Caption information source: http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/18308
Caption information source: http://old.seattletimes.com/pacificnw/2003/0511/nowthen.html
Subjects (LCTGM): Mansions--Washington (State)--Seattle; Residential streets--Washington (State)--Seattle