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Trinity Parish Episcopal Church
Located near the base of First Hill, Trinity Parish Church...
German Club/Assay Office
As its name suggests, the German Club/Assay Office has wit...
Northern Life Tower
The Northern Life Insurance Company was founded in Seattle...
Cobb Building
The Cobb Building is the only surviving example of the inn...
Eagles Auditorium Building
On February 6, 1898, a group of theater managers met to di...
Coliseum Theater
A 1931 issue of the Journal of the Royal Institute of Arch...
Times Building
As its name suggests, the Times Building housed the busine...
Pike Place Public Market
Prior to the arrival of grocery stores in the 1920s, many ...
Bell Apartments and Barnes Building
Elmer Fisher is best known as the dominant architect of Se...
Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish, Statue
The Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish, Statue was created in...
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Trinity Parish Episcopal Church
Located near the base of First Hill, Trinity Parish Church is one of Seattle's oldest continually meeting congregations and the "Mother Church" of Episcopal mission activities in the city. Formally established on August 14, 1865, as the "unorganized mission" of ...
German Club/Assay Office
As its name suggests, the German Club/Assay Office has witnessed a remarkable series of events during its history. In 1868, Thomas Prosch, noted newspaper publisher, civic leader and secretary of the Chamber of Commerce in Seattle, built the two-story, Italianate ...
Northern Life Tower
The Northern Life Insurance Company was founded in Seattle by D. B. and T. M. Morgan, with assets of $170,232 and a 12 by 12 foot office in the Colman Building. As the firm prospered, it was moved to larger ...
Cobb Building
The Cobb Building is the only surviving example of the innovative urban design scheme planned to create a commercial center in Seattle. It occupies part of a 10-acre plot that originally served as the first site of the University of ...
Eagles Auditorium Building
On February 6, 1898, a group of theater managers met to discuss some business matters. The men decided to take a walk along the tide flats, and upon reaching the shipyards, settled upon some pilings, where the conversation took a ...
Coliseum Theater
A 1931 issue of the Journal of the Royal Institute of Architects referred to Seattle's Coliseum Theater as "the first of the world's movie palaces." The Coliseum is an early example of these large-scale, luxuriously-decorated theaters designed specifically for the ...
Times Building
As its name suggests, the Times Building housed the business, editorial and printing functions of one of Seattle's prominent newspapers. The Times was best known throughout the Pacific Northwest as the paper of the Blethen family, who purchased it in ...
Pike Place Public Market
Prior to the arrival of grocery stores in the 1920s, many Americans purchased their produce in large open-air markets directly from farmers as a way to "beat the middleman." In 1907, after rumors of price fixing mounted, Seattle's City Council ...
Bell Apartments and Barnes Building
Elmer Fisher is best known as the dominant architect of Seattle's reconstruction after the Great Fire of 1889 that destroyed 60 acres in downtown Seattle. In the wake of the Great Fire, Fisher designed and supervised the construction of over ...
Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish, Statue
The Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish, Statue was created in 1912 and commemorates the relationship between the American Indians of Puget Sound and the incoming European-American settlers. Around 1783, a Suquamish named Noah Sealth was born on Blake Island in ...
