Panorama of Aberdeen before the October 16, 1903 fire — 1903 — #22657_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
Jones Photo Co.
The panorama shows Aberdeen just before the Great Fire. The book "On the Harbor : From Black Friday to Nirvana" by John C. Hughes and Ryan Teague Beckwith notes that the Aberdeen Fire started in a rooming house, the Arctic Hotel, on the morning of "Black Friday", October 16, 1903 and burned until 2pm, destroying 140 buildings on seven city blocks. Damages were estimated at $600,000 (the equivalent of about $10 million dollars in 2007). Four residents of the Arctic Hotel perished in the fire.
