NOW: In 1910 Hotel Grace took the place of the attached storefronts furthest to the south (on the left) on the “Rowe Block.” Soon renamed the Apex Hotel it served the single men who required “cheap digs” in the often-depressed Belltown neighborhood. Later the vacant hotel’s two top floors were made over into a “limited-equity housing coop” named the Apex Belltown Co-op, which first opened in 1984 with the author one of its first residents. Rowe’s two frame buildings nearest the corner – and at it – were still in service well in the nineteen teens. They were replaced with a vacant lot, until the recent addition, front-center in Jean’s repeat.