Panorama of Aberdeen before the fire of 1903 — 10/15/1903 — #20831_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
Elks Club
The panorama shows Aberdeen just before the Great Fire. John C. Hughes' "On the Harbor : From Black Friday to Nirvana" notes that the Aberdeen Fire started in a rooming house, the Arctic Hotel, on the morning of 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.
