"The Blob" was the nickname Seattelites gave to the white stucco building created by architect-owner Anthony A. Dadvar to house a restaurant, the Isla del Sol. Initially a square building built in 1946 to house Clyde’s Cleaners, Mr. Dadvar began reworking the exterior in 1984, calling it "a free-form architecture and functional sculpture.'' He planned to create an interior atmosphere that gave Seattleites an escape from the gloomy winters, but he ran out of money two years later and the 11,000-square-foot building was left boarded-up and unfinished. In the early 1990s the space was briefly a Greek restaurant and a cowboy bar, but both business failed and the building was demolished in 1997 for condominiums.

This image of the exterior of the building on Queen Anne Hill at the corner of First Avenue N. and Roy Street was taken after it was abandoned by the owner.

Caption information source: "Seattle restaurant, known as The Blob, is torn down on November 18, 1997," by Alan J. Stein, HistoryLink.org Essay 8215