Wolf Point

This plaza marks the location of Wolf Point, an important meeting ground at the confluence of the north and south branches of the Chicago River. The branches came together at Wolf Point, also known as the "Forks", and then ran ...

Eagle Harbor Superfund Site

The Pacific Creosoting Plant/Wyckoff Facility was formerly one of the largest creosote plants in the world. Its products were used in major construction projects such as the Northern Pacific Railway and the Panama Canal. The plant has been a Superfund ...

Chief Seattle Fountain/Little Crossing-Over Place

The Chief Seattle Fountain is a monument to the city’s namesake, Duwamish Chief Seeathl (also spelled Si'ahl). It is also a reminder that before this place was Seattle—and long before it was Pioneer Park Place as you see ...

"Song of the Earth"

Bellevue-based artist Aki Sogabe created “Song of the Earth” in 1998 to memorialize the Japanese American farmers who never returned to Seattle after they were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. The piece is made up of five ...

Pike Place Fish Market

The Pike Place Fish Market, owned since 1965 by John Yokoyama, is has become a tourist attraction for the way its staff sings and throws fish. Over time, the company has come to live up to the “world famous” claim ...

Seattle Ferry Terminal

The best view of Seattle isn’t from the Space Needle or Columbia Tower. The best view of Seattle is from a ferry.

Washington state has the nation’s largest ferry system. Its fleet of twenty-two ferries is a marine highway ...

Winslow Warf Marina/Hall Brothers Shipyard

Hall Brothers Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company was once one of the best-known makers of wooden ships on the Pacific Coast. Located on the northern shore of Eagle Harbor, the former site of the shipyard is now the Winslow Wharf ...

Elliott Bay, Waterfront Park

Famous for its rain and bordered by Elliott Bay and ringed by lakes to the north and east, water may be Seattle’s most distinguishing and celebrated characteristic. After all, Seattle’s biggest civic celebration is Seafair—a ten-week-long summer festival includes parades, ...

Grand Pacific Hotel

The Grand Pacific Hotel is a multistory brick building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style typical of commercial buildings constructed in Seattle in the period following the Great Fire of 1889. The hotel has close ties to the Klondike gold rush, ...