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The building under construction is the New Washington Hotel, now the Josephinium at the corner of Second and Stewart. The topography of central Seattle was radically altered by a series of regrades in the city's first century of urban settlement, in what might have been the largest such alteration of urban terrain at the time. [1]
Location of Seattle in King County and Washington. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Seattle, Washington. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...
There are 315 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. 222 of these listings are located in the city of Seattle, and are listed separately; the remaining 93 properties and districts are listed here. Another property in the county outside of Seattle was once listed on the National Register but has been removed.
This 1909 map of Seattle shows many neighborhood names that remain in common use today—for example, Ballard, Fremont, Queen Anne Hill, Capitol Hill, West Seattle, and Beacon Hill—but also many that have fallen out of use—for example, "Ross" and "Edgewater" on either side of Fremont, "Brooklyn" for today's University District, and "Renton Hill" near the confluence of Capitol Hill, First ...
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The Seattle Municipal Archive accepted US$100,000 from the National Archives and Records Administration to process records. [ 3 ] By 2002 many of the archives photographs from before the 1930s had begun to deteriorate and the archival budget did not allow for all of them to be digitized to contemporary quality standards for archives. [ 4 ]
This photo depicts the dock that the Wagner Houseboat (also known as "The Old Boathouse") is located off of. The Wagner Houseboat was built as a summer home on Lake Washington near Madison Park. [2] It was designed in the "Cottage Style" and constructed from locally sourced wood; it reflects historic building techniques of early houseboat ...
McKay was also responsible in the years 1882–1884 for a major enlargement of the now-demolished Catholic Church of Our Lady of Good Help, as well as designing the Occidental Hotel (First and Yesler, later site of the Seattle Hotel and now the "Sinking Ship" parking garage) and Seattle Engine House No. 1 (both lost in the 1889 Fire) and the ...