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Nathan Jackson Whale Hatchover

The Puget Sound is the natural habitat of gray whales, minke whales, and orca—or killer—whales. This hatchover—or manhole cover—design at your feet (at the northwest corner of S Main St and 1st Ave S) featuring a whale in a Tlingit ...

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Salina School

Salina Intermediate School began in 1918 as a four room school house, but quickly expanded as the population around it grew. In 1922, a new building was opened, which still stands today as the main part of the current Salina ...

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Pike Place Fish Market

The Pike Place Fish Market, owned since 1965 by John Yokoyama, is has become a tourist attraction for the way its staff sings and throws fish. Over time, the company has come to live up to the “world famous” claim ...

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The Wigwam

The Wigwam was a temporary two-story meeting hall built by Chicago's business leadersto house the 1860Republican National Convention. The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln to be the president of the United States

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Nuclear Energy Sculpture

In the late 1930s, at the beginning of World War II, researchers at the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab) and their affiliates at the Argonne National Laboratory in ...

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Seattle Ferry Terminal

The best view of Seattle isn’t from the Space Needle or Columbia Tower. The best view of Seattle is from a ferry.

 

Washington state has the nation’s largest ferry system. Its fleet of twenty-two ferries is a marine highway ...

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Winslow Warf Marina/Hall Brothers Shipyard

Hall Brothers Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company was once one of the best-known makers of wooden ships on the Pacific Coast. Located on the northern shore of Eagle Harbor, the former site of the shipyard is now the Winslow Wharf ...

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Angie's Umbrella

At the triangular intersection where Western and Elliott Avenues meet Lenora Street stands a 20-foot-tall umbrella turned inside out. This work of public art by Jim Pridgeon and Benson Shaw turns a full 360 degrees with the direction of the ...

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State Hotel

The State Hotel, also called the Delmar Building, operated for many years as a low-budget hotel and once housed Seattle’s earliest pharmacy. It is important for its connection to Seattle’s “Skid Road” period.

 

Upon construction in 1891 in the ...

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Cadillac Hotel

The Cadillac Hotel has historically been notable as an example of an early workingman’s hotel in Seattle. Today, however, it is best known for the severe damage it suffered during the Nisqually earthquake of 2001.

 

Construction on the Cadillac ...

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