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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 ...
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
[8] [9] The Pioneer Building, whose observation tower surpassed 110 feet (34 m), was completed in 1892 and is regarded as the city's first modern high-rise building. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The Alaska Building , completed in 1904 and rising 203 feet (62 m) above 2nd Avenue in Pioneer Square , is considered to be Seattle's first skyscraper and first steel ...
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.
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 ...
The Columbia Center or Columbia Tower, formerly named the Bank of America Tower and Columbia Seafirst Center, is a skyscraper in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The 76-story structure is the tallest building in the state of Washington, reaching a height of 933 ft (284 m).
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.