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Photograph of Joshua Sears Building
Photograph by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Joshua Sears Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Joshua Sears Building is a historic building in Kirkland, Washington, located at the northwest corner of Market Street and Seventh Avenue, Kirkland's historic commercial core. It was built in 1891 by Boston philanthropist and capitalist, Joshua Sears, who was heavily invested in Peter Kirk's Great Western Iron and Steel Company and was the town site's largest landowner.”

Wikipedia article Joshua Sears Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Sears, Joshua, Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 701 Market St., Kirkland, 98033
  • When was it listed? August 1982
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Kirkland Land Improvement Company TR
  • Census division. Seattle East
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82004225 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Joshua Sears Building: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cadman Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in King County

Storms near this property

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirkland, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 2 lightning, 2 heavy rain, 2 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2006Heavy RainKirkland$1,000,000Up to 2 inches of rain fell during the day, causing a sinkhole to develop under a road in Woodinville and flooding several businesses in Kirkland. Freeway ramps were closed off of I-405 in Kirkland and there was ankle high water at intersections. A sinkhole also developed near a West Seattle home, flooding the basement. In Rainier Valley several businesses were flooded. Seattle Goodwill's downtown building suffered water damage.
July 2007LightningKirkland$5,000Lightning struck a home in Kirkland, causing minor damage.
September 2003Heavy RainKirkland$5,000no account filed
June 2008Funnel CloudKirkland-A funnel cloud was observed from the Seattle NWS forecast office.
October 2006Funnel CloudKirkland-no account filed
August 1997LightningKirkland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in King County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Masonic Lodge Buildingunder 500 feet1982
Peter Kirk Buildingunder 500 feet1973
Dr. Trueblood House0.2 miles1982
Loomis House0.2 miles1982
Kirkland Woman's Club0.2 miles1990
TOURIST II (auto ferry)0.4 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82004225 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
King CountyAll 324 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.