Pike Place Urban Garden

The Pike Place Urban Garden is a 2,000 square foot rooftop community garden aimed at creating a place for volunteers, Pike Place Senior Center residents, and market visitors to meet. The garden is maintained by a team of volunteers and ...

Market Highstalls

Seattle is one of the most vegetarian-friendly cities in the United States. Part of what makes this possible is the abundance and quality of produce throughout much of the city, including the highstalls of Pike Place Market.

Vegetarians are ...

Eagle Harbor Superfund Site

The Pacific Creosoting Plant/Wyckoff Facility was formerly one of the largest creosote plants in the world. Its products were used in major construction projects such as the Northern Pacific Railway and the Panama Canal. The plant has been a Superfund ...

Chief Seattle Fountain/Little Crossing-Over Place

The Chief Seattle Fountain is a monument to the city’s namesake, Duwamish Chief Seeathl (also spelled Si'ahl). It is also a reminder that before this place was Seattle—and long before it was Pioneer Park Place as you see ...

“Haiku no Niwa,” Japanese Haiku Garden

Under Executive Order 9066, thousands of people of Japanese ancestry on the Pacific Coast of the United States were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. The first 227 victims in the country were removed from Bainbridge Island on ...

"Song of the Earth"

Bellevue-based artist Aki Sogabe created “Song of the Earth” in 1998 to memorialize the Japanese American farmers who never returned to Seattle after they were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. The piece is made up of five ...

Blakely Rock

Blakely Rock is a diving site southeast of Eagle Harbor and approximately one mile north of Restoration Point. Visitors to the island can spot Blakely Rock from the ferry. The rock is identifiable from the large black and white navigational ...

Pioneer Building

The Pioneer Building is the product of a construction boom that followed the Great Fire of 1889. Its original owner, Henry Yesler, was one of Seattle’s first and most prominent white residents.

Henry Yesler of Ohio arrived in Seattle ...

Smith Tower

Smith Tower, named for typewriter and rifle manufacturer Lyman Cornelius Smith, attests to Seattle’s Pacific connections in the early twentieth century, including both relations across the ocean with China and across the porous border with Canada.

At time of ...