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King Street Station

Located at the crossroads of four important downtown neighborhoods (Commercial District, International District, Stadium District, and Pioneer Square), King Street Station has served as a hub for transportation and city development for more than 100 years. The station was constructed ...

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Nathan Jackson Whale Hatchover

The Puget Sound is the natural habitat of gray whales, minke whales, and orca—or killer—whales. This hatchover—or manhole cover—design at your feet (at the northwest corner of S Main St and 1st Ave S) featuring a whale in a Tlingit ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Pioneer Court

Though not known for certain, Pioneer Court is believed to be the location of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable and wife Catherine's home site. DuSable is generally credited with being the first non-native, permanent settler of Chicago.    
DuSable's background ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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