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Leigh Street Baptist Church
Well-known Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan designed th...
Laburnum Park Historic District
Laburnum Park Historic District is one of Richmond’s histo...
Ginter Park Historic District
Richmond businessman and philanthropist Lewis W. Ginter co...
Chestnut Hill--Plateau Historic District
Chestnut Hill and the adjoining subdivision The Plateau we...
Seattle Electric Company Georgetown Steam Plant
The Seattle Electric Company's Georgetown Steam Plant exem...
Victorian Apartments
At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of multi-family ...
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
The Seattle Unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Histor...
Pioneer Square - Skid Road Historic District
Skid Road and Pioneer Square were the center of the young ...
Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility
The Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility illustr...
Iron Pergola and Totem Pole
In the heart of Pioneer Square, the land from which Seattl...
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Leigh Street Baptist Church
Well-known Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan designed the Leigh Street Baptist Church. Dedicated in 1857, the handsome Greek Revival style building is a fine example of its style. The church is also historically significant as an active part of the community ...
Laburnum Park Historic District
Laburnum Park Historic District is one of Richmond’s historic streetcar suburbs with a fine collection of middle and upper class residential architecture from the early part of the 20th century. The neighborhood is also the location of a number of ...
Ginter Park Historic District
Richmond businessman and philanthropist Lewis W. Ginter conceived Ginter Park, a serene late 19th and early 20th-century neighborhood of stately homes. Born in 1842 in New York City, Ginter became a tobacconist, industrialist, and entrepreneur. His idea for Ginter Park ...
Chestnut Hill--Plateau Historic District
Chestnut Hill and the adjoining subdivision The Plateau were originally the site of Mont Comfort, a farm Richmonder Samuel DuVal owned in the 18th century. The extension of a street across the ravine known as Cannon’s Branch in the 1890s ...
Seattle Electric Company Georgetown Steam Plant
The Seattle Electric Company's Georgetown Steam Plant exemplifies America's acceptance of, then reliance upon, electricity. After Thomas Edison introduced this new form of power in New York in 1882, electricity quickly moved from a simple curiosity to a "requirement" for ...
Victorian Apartments
At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of multi-family rental houses dotted the hills south of downtown Seattle. Today, however, the Victorian Apartments offer the city's only unaltered example of a pre-1900 wooden apartment building. Built in 1891 at ...
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
The Seattle Unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park commemorates the city's role as the most important staging area for the gold rush of the 1890s. When the steamer S. S. Portland arrived in the harbor on July ...
Pioneer Square - Skid Road Historic District
Skid Road and Pioneer Square were the center of the young city of Seattle. In the 1850s, early settlers built sawmills to exploit the timber resources of the area. They moved their logs by "skidding" them down the steep hills ...
Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility
The Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility illustrates Seattle's long-running reliance on the waters of Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean. The earliest European American settlers chose the area in the 1850s partly because of its natural harbor, and since ...
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 ...
