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Seattle National Bank Building (United Way) 720 Second Avenue: Seattle Times Building: 1120 John Street: More images: March 11, 1996 Demolished in 2016. Seattle Tower: 1212 3rd Avenue: More images: Seattle Yacht Club: 1807 E. Hamlin Street: More images: Securities Building: 1907 Third Avenue
By the end of the 1920s building boom, several new Art Deco high-rises above 200 feet (61 m) were completed in Seattle, including the Medical Dental Building (1925), Seattle Tower (1930), Roosevelt Hotel (1929), Washington Athletic Club (1930), Textile Tower Building (1930), Harborview Medical Center (1931), and Pacific Tower (1933).
As of 2017, Downtown Seattle contains all but one of the 20 tallest buildings in Washington (the nearby Space Needle being the sole exception); the vast majority are office buildings, although the office-residential-hotel Rainier Square Tower, which broke ground is slated to become the city's second-tallest building; [136] [137] [138] the F5 ...
Buildings and structures in Pioneer Square, Seattle (11 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Downtown Seattle" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total.
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 ...
The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States.Considered to be an icon of the city, it has been designated a Seattle landmark.Located in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood, it was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, which drew over 2.3 million visitors.
Smith Tower construction, February 1913. In the wake of the Klondike Gold Rush, Eastern financial interest in Seattle was at an all-time high. [12] Prominent local attorney James Clise, who represented numerous capitalists in New York and Boston was responsible for many of the land transactions that saw numerous new office buildings built in the city.
The Northern Life Tower was the first building in Seattle to illustrate this style, now known as Art Deco or Art Moderne. Derived from Eliel Saarinen's famous, second-place proposal for the Chicago Tribune contest, the Northern Life Tower building beautifully illustrates the increasing popularity of a simple, smooth, almost machine-like ...