Once located on 4th Avenue and Union Street, the three attached structures of the White-Henry-Stuart building were built from 1908-1915. The building was demolished in 1974 to make way for the Rainier Bank Tower. The artist, Fokko Tadama (1871–1937), was born in India and immigrated to Seattle via New York around 1910. Already an established artist in Europe, Tadama held his first one-man show in 1913 at the Seattle Public Library. In 1914, he started the Fokko Tadama Art School in Seattle and he was influential with many local artists. Primarily an Impressionist painter, Tadama had a successful career as an artist and teacher until the Great Depression of the 1930s. At that time, Tadama was enlisted in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as an easel painter. In poor health both physically and financially, Tadama tragically ended his own life in 1937.