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Yesler Way is an east–west street in Seattle named for Henry Yesler, the founder of Seattle. East–west streets in Seattle south of Yesler Way are prefixed "South"; [ 3 ] avenues are suffixed with "South" as they cross Yesler Way. [ 4 ]
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Pioneer Square–Skid Road Historic District. This map also shows how Second Avenue Extension continues a piece of the north-of-Yesler street grid into the area south of Yesler Way. (The map dates from before the Kingdome was replaced by two new stadiums.) Pioneer Square is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of Downtown Seattle, Washington, US.
These three grid patterns (due north, 32 degrees west of north, and 49 degrees west of north) are the result of a disagreement between David Swinson "Doc" Maynard, whose land claim lay south of Yesler Way, and Arthur A. Denny and Carson D. Boren, whose land claims lay to the north (with Henry Yesler and his mill soon brought in between Denny and the others): [2] Denny and Boren preferred that ...
Yesler's property at 3 of the 4 corners of 1st and Yesler had stood in the way of these changes, and Yesler, being the frugal and stubborn man he was refused to surrender an inch of right of way. To firmly cement his property lines in 1883 he had one of Seattle's grandest buildings built on the corner that the city wanted to cut through, the ...
Typical Yesler Terrace houses (2006) Yesler Terrace is located on the southernmost part of First Hill, along Yesler Way immediately east of downtown Seattle. Uphill across Interstate 5 from Pioneer Square and the International District. Much of the site included Nihonmachi or Japantown until Executive Order 9066 ordered residents to be interned.
1st Avenue is called "Seattle's oldest thoroughfare". [2]Seattle's original street system was a misaligned grid created by three of the original settlers. Today's 1st Avenue was Front Street north of Yesler in Arthur A. Denny's plat, and Commercial Street to its south in Doc Maynard's. [3]
English: Looking east on Yesler Way from the corner of First and Yesler, Pioneer Square neighborhood, Seattle, Washington, USA. The prominent building here is the Smith Tower. The "sinking ship garage" in the foreground at left is on the site of the former Hotel Seattle.