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A little history on the building:

Puget Sound Weekly Argus

September 20, 1888

Page 3:

The Good Templars have sold their hall and lot on Quincy and Washington streets to E. Biondi, for $6,000. They will build on the hill. The old hall will be refitted into an elegant lodging house.

The 'Good Templars' were a temperance group. The building uptown was the original Wanamaker & Mutty grocery, the Moose Hall (upstairs) and eventually Aldrich's.

Rob Gruye and his partners renovated the 1870 Good Templars Hall downtown in 1997, I believe.