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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VOP_alexis-hotel-globe-building-historical_Seattle-WA.html
Designed by Max Umbrecht for J.W. Clise, this building originally housed stores, offices and lodgings, and together with others in the area, marked the northward move of the downtown up First Avenue. Later it was converted into a parking garage an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VN4_everett-g-dupen-historical_Seattle-WA.html
For much of the 20th Century, this site was occupied by the Medical Arts Building, a six-story brick and concrete building, built in 1903. This original building was named the Lumber Exchange. In a 1950 renovation by its long-time owners, the Albe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VMD_first-post-office-in-seattle-historical_Seattle-WA.html
Arthur A. Denny
in his log cabin home on
this spot opened the first
post office of Seattle
August 27, 1853.
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This Tablet was Erected by the Washington
University S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VM1_burke-building-remnants-historical_Seattle-WA.html
This arch and other
architectural components
in the plaza are from the
Burke Building
which was built on this site
in 1895
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VLS_exchange-building-historical_Seattle-WA.html
Opened in May 1930, the Exchange Building was designed to house more stock and mercantile exchanges than any building in the United States. It was constructed as one of the tallest and largest reinforced concrete structures in the world.
Desig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VKS_the-holyoke-building-historical_Seattle-WA.html
In 1889, while this building was under construction, fire consumed most (sixteen blocks) of Seattle's downtown business district. The deep pit that had been dug for this building's foundation acted as a fire stop, preventing the destruction from s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VG3_fire-bell-no-4-historical_Seattle-WA.html
Historic fire bell from Station No. 4 located at 4th and Battery Street in the 1800's prior to the first Denny regrade - This bell sounded out the fire alarms to all the stations in the North End area and Queen Anne Hill by means of area code and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ME2_hiram-m-chittenden-locks_Seattle-WA.html
When dedicated on July 4, 1917, the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks was the largest navigation facility in North America. During the dedication, the USS Roosevelt - flagship for Commodore Robert Peary's famous 1909 expedition to the North Pole - led a p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MDG_bell-street-bridge_Seattle-WA.html
The original Bell Street Bridge was a wooden trestle built in 1915 to provide access to Pier 66 from Elliott Avenue and the hillside above.
In the early 1900s, trestle bridges connected many of Seattle's piers on the central waterfront with the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KPD_lenin-in-fremont_Seattle-WA.html
Seen by most as one of the nost controversial art pieces in Fremont; the sculpture of Lenin reminds us that art outlives politics— a stalwart reminder
of egregious policy not to be repeated.
One of A Kind.
Weighing over 7 tons, the
scu…