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Seattle International District
The architecture of the International District documents A...
Triangle Hotel and Bar
Seattle's early surveyors attempted to lay out the city's ...
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
The Seattle Unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Histor...
Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility
The Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility illustr...
Iron Pergola and Totem Pole
In the heart of Pioneer Square, the land from which Seattl...
Pioneer Building
The Pioneer Building helps mark the heart of Seattle's ear...
Hoge Building
The 1911 Hoge Building represents the wealth and extravaga...
Lyon Building
The Lyon Building illustrates changes in Seattle life both...
Arctic Club
The Arctic Building is associated with one of the lesser-k...
Leamington Hotel and Apartments
The Leamington Hotel and Apartments documents Seattle's tr...
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Seattle International District
The architecture of the International District documents Asian immigrants' attempts to create a culture that blends both Asian and American traditions. Among the city's earliest residents were the Chinese immigrants who provided the cheap labor that helped make the first ...
Triangle Hotel and Bar
Seattle's early surveyors attempted to lay out the city's streets on a square grid plan. The varying angles of the shoreline, however, created overlapping grids that converged at points to produce a series of triangular lots. Building on these properties ...
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
The Seattle Unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park commemorates the city's role as the most important staging area for the gold rush of the 1890s. When the steamer S. S. Portland arrived in the harbor on July ...
Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility
The Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility illustrates Seattle's long-running reliance on the waters of Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean. The earliest European American settlers chose the area in the 1850s partly because of its natural harbor, and since ...
Iron Pergola and Totem Pole
In the heart of Pioneer Square, the land from which Seattle's industrial base grew, stand the Iron Pergola and the Tlingit Indian Totem Pole. This property was originally the site of the city's first mill, built in 1853 by Henry ...
Pioneer Building
The Pioneer Building helps mark the heart of Seattle's early commercial development. It stands on the ground where Henry Yesler established the first sawmill of the area in 1853, thereby providing the city with its initial industrial base. He sold ...
Hoge Building
The 1911 Hoge Building represents the wealth and extravagance of America's early 20th-century financial elite. The building--named after John Hoge who personally financed the project--is considered to be the second true "skyscraper" in Seattle (the Alaska Building was the first). ...
Lyon Building
The Lyon Building illustrates changes in Seattle life both at the beginning and at the end of the 20th century. Although the flood of gold from the Yukon slowed to a steady stream as the 1900s opened, the city itself ...
Arctic Club
The Arctic Building is associated with one of the lesser-known facets of the Klondike gold rush--the formation of social institutions for the men who returned from the Yukon gold rush after "striking it rich." Though most who headed north found ...
Leamington Hotel and Apartments
The Leamington Hotel and Apartments documents Seattle's transition from a restless boomtown of transient laborers to an industrial and commercial center populated with permanent citizens. Hotels frequently housed the transient population, and the number of hotels grew astronomically during three ...
