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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 ...

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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 ...

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Eagles Auditorium Building

On February 6, 1898, a group of theater managers met to discuss some business matters. The men decided to take a walk along the tide flats, and upon reaching the shipyards, settled upon some pilings, where the conversation took a ...

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Times Building

As its name suggests, the Times Building housed the business, editorial and printing functions of one of Seattle's prominent newspapers. The Times was best known throughout the Pacific Northwest as the paper of the Blethen family, who purchased it in ...

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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 ...

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Harvard - Belmont Historic District

The Harvard-Belmont District encompasses an exclusive residential area on the western slope of Capitol Hill. Seattle was the departure point for the Yukon gold rush, and an event which created a new class of wealthy people. These individuals attempted to ...

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Ballard Avenue Historic District

The Ballard Avenue Historic District reflects the patterns of industrial growth in Seattle, as well as the city's Scandinavian heritage. In the 1870s and 1880s, several distinct communities were formed in the Puget Sound area that centered around the area's ...

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Kenilworth Gardens

Although Kenilworth Gardens are locally important today as a part of Washington's Park System, its greater significance lies in its contribution to the botanical study and development of water plants and gardens under the direction of its founder, W.B. Shaw ...

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Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

From 1877 to 1895 this was the home of famous abolitionist, writer, lecturer, statesman, and Underground Railroad conductor, Frederick Douglass. Modest in its scale and ornamentation, Cedar Hill demonstrates the characteristics of a romantic cottage in natural surroundings. Frederick Douglass ...

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Anacostia Historic District

The name Anacostia derives from the area's early history as Nacochtank, a settlement of Necostan or Anacostan Indians on the banks of the Anacostia River. Captain John Smith recorded in his journals that he sailed up the Eastern Branch or ...

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