The Burg And Other Seattle Scenes (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
The University of Washington owned an apartment building at the corner of 15th and 40th Northeast called the Commodore-Duchess. I don’t remember the details of the story of how the building got its name, but originally there were two buildings. And there was something about two brothers, one of which owned the Commodore, the other the Duchess, and they had a falling-out. Then they became brotherly again, and to symbolize their rapprochement, they joined the two buildings with brick so that they became the Commodore-Duchess. But I may be remembering wrongly. It might have been that the two brothers had a falling-out and never reconciled, and the buildings were joined only after the university acquired the property. Or possibly after one brother died, the other felt so bad that, after somehow acquiring his dead brother’s property, he joined the two buildings to symbolize the union brought by death. Or perhaps the one brother simply acquired his dead brother’s building and connected it to his own in order to manage it more easily; maybe the connection of that building to his symbolized his ultimate dominance over his brother.
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