Lester Apartments

The Lester Apartments was a building on the west side of Beacon Hill, Seattle, Washington, United States. It was constructed in 1910–1911, originally intended to be the world's largest brothel. After scandal (and women's suffrage^[2]) forced Seattle mayor Hiram Gill from office, the building was converted to be an ordinary apartment house. It met a disastrous end when a B-50 Superfortress crashed into it in 1951, causing a fire that engulfed the building.

^ Cory Graff (2008), Boeing Field, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-5615-7, p. 100 has a nearly full-page image of the wreckage of the Lester Apartments and specifically mentions that Interstate 5 now runs through where the building stood.
^ David Wilma, Gill, Hiram C. (1866–1919), HistoryLink.org Essay 2755, 27 October 2000. Accessed 22 January 2007.

[1] Cory Graff (2008), Boeing Field, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-5615-7, p. 100 has a nearly full-page image of the wreckage of the Lester Apartments and specifically mentions that Interstate 5 now runs through where the building stood.

[Wilma-2] David Wilma, Gill, Hiram C. (1866–1919), HistoryLink.org Essay 2755, 27 October 2000. Accessed 22 January 2007.

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