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Pioneer Square - Skid Road Historic District
Skid Road and Pioneer Square were the center of the young ...
Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility
The Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility illustr...
Iron Pergola and Totem Pole
In the heart of Pioneer Square, the land from which Seattl...
Arctic Club
The Arctic Building is associated with one of the lesser-k...
Leamington Hotel and Apartments
The Leamington Hotel and Apartments documents Seattle's tr...
Trinity Parish Episcopal Church
Located near the base of First Hill, Trinity Parish Church...
German Club/Assay Office
As its name suggests, the German Club/Assay Office has wit...
Eagles Auditorium Building
On February 6, 1898, a group of theater managers met to di...
Paramount Theater
The Paramount Theatre opened on March 1, 1928 at the end o...
Coliseum Theater
A 1931 issue of the Journal of the Royal Institute of Arch...
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Pioneer Square - Skid Road Historic District
Skid Road and Pioneer Square were the center of the young city of Seattle. In the 1850s, early settlers built sawmills to exploit the timber resources of the area. They moved their logs by "skidding" them down the steep hills ...
Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility
The Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility illustrates Seattle's long-running reliance on the waters of Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean. The earliest European American settlers chose the area in the 1850s partly because of its natural harbor, and since ...
Iron Pergola and Totem Pole
In the heart of Pioneer Square, the land from which Seattle's industrial base grew, stand the Iron Pergola and the Tlingit Indian Totem Pole. This property was originally the site of the city's first mill, built in 1853 by Henry ...
Arctic Club
The Arctic Building is associated with one of the lesser-known facets of the Klondike gold rush--the formation of social institutions for the men who returned from the Yukon gold rush after "striking it rich." Though most who headed north found ...
Leamington Hotel and Apartments
The Leamington Hotel and Apartments documents Seattle's transition from a restless boomtown of transient laborers to an industrial and commercial center populated with permanent citizens. Hotels frequently housed the transient population, and the number of hotels grew astronomically during three ...
Trinity Parish Episcopal Church
Located near the base of First Hill, Trinity Parish Church is one of Seattle's oldest continually meeting congregations and the "Mother Church" of Episcopal mission activities in the city. Formally established on August 14, 1865, as the "unorganized mission" of ...
German Club/Assay Office
As its name suggests, the German Club/Assay Office has witnessed a remarkable series of events during its history. In 1868, Thomas Prosch, noted newspaper publisher, civic leader and secretary of the Chamber of Commerce in Seattle, built the two-story, Italianate ...
Eagles Auditorium Building
On February 6, 1898, a group of theater managers met to discuss some business matters. The men decided to take a walk along the tide flats, and upon reaching the shipyards, settled upon some pilings, where the conversation took a ...
Paramount Theater
The Paramount Theatre opened on March 1, 1928 at the end of an era. Thomas Edison first introduced "Motion Pictures" to Americans in 1896. By the 1910s, opportunistic playhouse managers grasped their money-making potential--Americans would pay for the chance to ...
Coliseum Theater
A 1931 issue of the Journal of the Royal Institute of Architects referred to Seattle's Coliseum Theater as "the first of the world's movie palaces." The Coliseum is an early example of these large-scale, luxuriously-decorated theaters designed specifically for the ...
