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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...
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...
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...
Eagles Auditorium Building
On February 6, 1898, a group of theater managers met to di...
Stimson - Green House
The Stimson-Green House is a beautifully-preserved example...
Paramount Theater
The Paramount Theatre opened on March 1, 1928 at the end o...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stimson - Green House
The Stimson-Green House is a beautifully-preserved example of a fashionable turn-of-the-century Seattle home. Its first owner, Charles Stimson, moved to Seattle in 1889 and rapidly developed profitable timbering and real estate businesses in the nearby community of Ballard. He was ...
Paramount Theater
The Paramount Theatre opened on March 1, 1928 at the end of an era. Thomas Edison first introduced "Motion Pictures" to Americans in 1896. By the 1910s, opportunistic playhouse managers grasped their money-making potential--Americans would pay for the chance to ...
