By-boone-Wa-Chong-Chinatown-2nd-Wash2WEB March 1, 2015 1200 × 949 Seattle Now & Then: The Boone Home The Wa-Chong Building in the old Chinatown at the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Washington Street, before the Second Ave. Extension. Part of the building survives. Here the Frye Hotel towers above and behind it.