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Salina School
Salina Intermediate School began in 1918 as a four room sc...
Pike Place Fish Market
The Pike Place Fish Market, owned since 1965 by John Yokoy...
Nuclear Energy Sculpture
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Seattle Ferry Terminal
The best view of Seattle isn’t from the Space Needle...
Winslow Warf Marina/Hall Brothers Shipyard
Hall Brothers Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company was ...
Angie's Umbrella
At the triangular intersection where Western and Elliott A...
State Hotel
The State Hotel, also called the Delmar Building, operated...
Cadillac Hotel
The Cadillac Hotel has historically been notable as an exa...
Elliott Bay, Waterfront Park
Famous for its rain and bordered by Elliott Bay and ringed...
Arctic Building
Tens of thousands of people went to Alaska and the Yukon d...
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Salina School
Salina Intermediate School began in 1918 as a four room school house, but quickly expanded as the population around it grew. In 1922, a new building was opened, which still stands today as the main part of the current Salina ...
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 ...
Nuclear Energy Sculpture
In the late 1930s, at the beginning of World War II, researchers at the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab) and their affiliates at the Argonne National Laboratory in ...
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 ...
Angie's Umbrella
At the triangular intersection where Western and Elliott Avenues meet Lenora Street stands a 20-foot-tall umbrella turned inside out. This work of public art by Jim Pridgeon and Benson Shaw turns a full 360 degrees with the direction of the ...
State Hotel
The State Hotel, also called the Delmar Building, operated for many years as a low-budget hotel and once housed Seattle’s earliest pharmacy. It is important for its connection to Seattle’s “Skid Road” period.
Upon construction in 1891 in the ...
Cadillac Hotel
The Cadillac Hotel has historically been notable as an example of an early workingman’s hotel in Seattle. Today, however, it is best known for the severe damage it suffered during the Nisqually earthquake of 2001.
Construction on the Cadillac ...
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, ...
Arctic Building
Tens of thousands of people went to Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush of the late 19th century, but only a few ended up rich. In 1908, the men in Seattle who had made their fortune in ...
