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Iron Pergola
The Iron Pergola in Pioneer Place Park is a landmark for t...
Totem Pole
At the turn of the twentieth century, city officials, comm...
Grand Pacific Hotel
The Grand Pacific Hotel is a multistory brick building in ...
Eastern Hotel
According to a 1913 Seattle directory, two years after ope...
Couch Mausoleum
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Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop has been one of Seattle’s mos...
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Iron Pergola
The Iron Pergola in Pioneer Place Park is a landmark for the history of transportation in Seattle.
Pioneer Place marks a change of direction in the platting of streets south of Yester along a north-south axis and the streets ...
Totem Pole
At the turn of the twentieth century, city officials, commercial businesses, and private citizens in Seattle adopted the totem pole as a distinctive symbol based on the city’s experience as a northern entrepôt during theKlondike gold rush of ...
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, ...
Eastern Hotel
According to a 1913 Seattle directory, two years after opening the Eastern hotel housed a low-income lodging house, a barber, the business of Kozo Koyama—a collection agent and Japanese interpreter—and the Maynard Theatre, one of Seattle’s first cinemas. The building ...
Couch Mausoleum
Behind the doors of the mausoleum may lie the remains of Ira Couch and some of his family members, though no one knows for ...
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop has been one of Seattle’s most prominent tourist destinations for more than a century. The shop, today located at the northwest corner ofPier 54, played an important role in the market for Native Alaskan ...
The 1909 Plan of Chicago
In 1909, Daniel Burnham, Edward Bennett, and the Commercial Club of Chicago released thePlan of Chicago, an urban planning initiative dedicated to beautifying the city and redesigning it to better accommodate growth. Chicago's business clubs ...
Centennial Fountain and Water Cannon
The Nicholas J. MelasCentennial Fountain and water cannon were installed in 1989 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Chicago Sanitary District, known today as the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD).
Chicago Portage National Historical Site
The Chicago Portage National Historic Site marks the overland path used byvoyageursto travel between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds. The portage connected the south fork of the Chicago River with the Des ...
Michigan Central Station
The Michigan Central Station served Detroit as the primary intercity passenger depot from its opening in 1914 until its abandonment in 1988. Constructed for the Michigan Central Railroad, this building replaced the city’s earlier depot following a fire in 1913. ...
