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Pioneer Building
The Pioneer Building helps mark the heart of Seattle's ear...
Leamington Hotel and Apartments
The Leamington Hotel and Apartments documents Seattle's tr...
Trinity Parish Episcopal Church
Located near the base of First Hill, Trinity Parish Church...
Paramount Theater
The Paramount Theatre opened on March 1, 1928 at the end o...
Pike Place Public Market
Prior to the arrival of grocery stores in the 1920s, many ...
Bell Apartments and Barnes Building
Elmer Fisher is best known as the dominant architect of Se...
Phillips House
The Phillips House documents First Hill's transition from ...
Volunteer Park
For more than a century Volunteer Park has been the center...
East Capitol Street Car Barn
The East Capitol Street Car Barn, constructed in 1896, is ...
Lincoln Park
Laid out in L'Enfant's plan for Washington as a square to ...
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Pioneer Building
The Pioneer Building helps mark the heart of Seattle's early commercial development. It stands on the ground where Henry Yesler established the first sawmill of the area in 1853, thereby providing the city with its initial industrial base. He sold ...
Leamington Hotel and Apartments
The Leamington Hotel and Apartments documents Seattle's transition from a restless boomtown of transient laborers to an industrial and commercial center populated with permanent citizens. Hotels frequently housed the transient population, and the number of hotels grew astronomically during three ...
Trinity Parish Episcopal Church
Located near the base of First Hill, Trinity Parish Church is one of Seattle's oldest continually meeting congregations and the "Mother Church" of Episcopal mission activities in the city. Formally established on August 14, 1865, as the "unorganized mission" of ...
Paramount Theater
The Paramount Theatre opened on March 1, 1928 at the end of an era. Thomas Edison first introduced "Motion Pictures" to Americans in 1896. By the 1910s, opportunistic playhouse managers grasped their money-making potential--Americans would pay for the chance to ...
Pike Place Public Market
Prior to the arrival of grocery stores in the 1920s, many Americans purchased their produce in large open-air markets directly from farmers as a way to "beat the middleman." In 1907, after rumors of price fixing mounted, Seattle's City Council ...
Bell Apartments and Barnes Building
Elmer Fisher is best known as the dominant architect of Seattle's reconstruction after the Great Fire of 1889 that destroyed 60 acres in downtown Seattle. In the wake of the Great Fire, Fisher designed and supervised the construction of over ...
Phillips House
The Phillips House documents First Hill's transition from its late 19th-century role as an opulent neighborhood of wealthy citizens to its 20th-century status as a largely middle-class area of modest homes and apartments houses. In the 1880s, many affluent citizens ...
Volunteer Park
For more than a century Volunteer Park has been the center of Seattle's park system. Though the city began purchasing this site along the crown of Capitol Hill in 1876, more than 15 years passed before the municipal government began ...
East Capitol Street Car Barn
The East Capitol Street Car Barn, constructed in 1896, is a Romanesque Revival style building designed by Waddy B. Wood, a prominent Washington architect. The L-shaped building is intrinsically linked to the history of Washington's rapid transit system. The building, ...
Lincoln Park
Laid out in L'Enfant's plan for Washington as a square to hold a monumental column from which point all distances on the continent would be measured, Lincoln Park was slow to develop, and, in fact, was used for years as ...
