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The architecture of Seattle, Washington, the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the U.S., features elements that predate the arrival of the area's first settlers of European ancestry in the mid-19th century, and has reflected and influenced numerous architectural styles over time.
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Washington is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Washington. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Name
The rebuilt Sawyer Homestead in Sterling, Massachusetts, built in 1756. Mary Elizabeth Tyler (née Sawyer; [1] March 22, 1806 – December 11, 1889) was an American woman who is believed to have been the "Mary" on which the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was based, a claim she stated at the age of 70.
Benjamin Franklin McAdoo Jr. (October 29, 1920 – June 18, 1981) was an American architect. McAdoo designed a number of residential, civic, and commercial structures in the Seattle area in a modernist aesthetic influenced by the Northwest Regional style.
The museum is located in Seattle, Washington's historically African-American Central District neighborhood in the former Colman School (built 1909), [1] with official status as a City of Seattle landmark. [2] The building also contains 36 units of affordable housing. [3]
The third floor contains what was called a "ballroom." [1] [3] In 1911, Ballard's wife sold the house to Judge George Donworth (1861–1947), a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Donworth renovated the house, and later sold it to attorney James Blake Howe (1860–1930) in 1911.
The Volunteer Park Conservatory is a botanical garden, conservatory, and Seattle landmark located in Seattle, Washington at the north end of Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill. Made up of 3,426 glass panes fit into a wood and iron framework, this Victorian-style greenhouse structure is modeled on London's Crystal Palace. Inside, the Volunteer Park ...
Mary Lund Davis (1922–2008) was a 20th-century modern architect of the Pacific Northwest and one of the few women to graduate from the University of Washington School of Architecture in the 1940s. Early life and education