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Builder and contractor Frederick William Anhalt produced some of Seattle's most noteworthy apartment buildings in the years immediately surrounding the Great Depression.
Kichio Allen Arai was Seattle's first Asian American architect to design buildings under his own name. His approach integrated Japanese aesthetics with American conventions. Arai's career was unfortun...
Joseph Koch (1920-2000) was a longtime resident of Auburn, a small town located in south King County only a few miles from the Pierce County border. From the time of his retirement in 1962, Joe was on...
Elizabeth Ayer, the first woman to graduate from the University of Washington's architecture program, helped fashion the residential architecture of many Seattle neighborhoods in the middle of the twe...
William Bain Sr. was a founding principal of NBBJ (named for Naramore, Bain, Brady, and Johansen), later one of the world’s largest architecture firms. His career included the design of an ...
The architectural firm of Charles Herbert Bebb (1856-1942) and Louis Leonard Mendel (1867-1940) was, from the turn of the century until 1914, the most prominent practice in Seattle.
The Beezer Brothers (1908-1923 in Seattle), a firm headed by twins Louis Beezer (1869-1929) and Michael J. Beezer (1869-1933), was a Seattle architectural firm with many commissions across Washington ...
William E. Boone, Seattle's premiere architect prior to the great fire of 1889, became one of few architects to continue practice after the Panic of 1893. He also designed significant buildings in Tac...
The architectural firm of Carl Alfred Breitung (1868-?) and Theobald Buchinger (1866-1940), partners from only 1905 to 1907, provided Seattle with several buildings reflecting their German and Austria...
This is an excerpt from a HistoryLink interview by Heather MacIntosh with Dotty DeCoster in April 2000. DeCoster was an outspoken member of the Women's Movement in the late 1960s and 1970s in Seattle....
In January 1944, Mayor William F. Devin (1898-1982), who was Seattle's mayor from 1942-1952, formed Seattle's Civic Unity Committee to manage and assuage growing fears of racial violence. Riots in Det...
Dave Holden was born on May 21, 1937, in Seattle. Son of local jazz legend Oscar Holden, Dave got his first paid gig as a jazz musician in the late 1950s. From that time on, Dave's keyboard and vocal ...
Homer Venishnick, born in Renton, Washington in 1926, comes from a long line of fishermen whose livelihoods have hinged on the ebb and flow of local rivers. Today he lives in a house he built 50 years...
Elmer H. Fisher was Seattle’s foremost commercial architect for a few years surrounding the great fire of 1889. His extensive Romanesque and Classical Revival building programs, which reflected ...
On July 14, 1873, an expectant crowd gathers at Yesler Mill in Seattle to hear Arthur Denny (1822-1899) read a telegram from Northern Pacific Railroad executives R. D. Rice and J. C. Ainsworth announc...
On April 15, 1885, the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad Company is incorporated. This route, the present-day (1999) Burke-Gilman Trail, connects Seattle's tidewater to Sumas, Washington, on ...
On May 27, 1888, the Stampede Pass railroad tunnel, located in the Cascade Mountains about 50 miles east of Tacoma and roughly 20 miles northwest of Cle Elum, is completed. The tunnel, which crosses f...
On January 6, 1893, amid cheers, shouts, and gunshots, workers drive the last spike into the Great Northern Railway track that opens transcontinental travel to Seattle. They lay the last rails at Madi...
On February 28, 1893, the first freight train arrives in Seattle from the East. The train steams in on the Great Northern Railway's newly completed transcontinental tracks.
On August 23, 1905, the Great Northern and North Pacific railroads announce joint incorporation of the Portland & Seattle Railway Company. This links Spokane, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, and...
On May 10, 1906, Seattle's King Street Station opens. James J. Hill (1838-1916), who purchased the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1901, builds the station between 1904 and 1906. The station supports bot...
In 1907, E. H. Harriman (1848-1909), president of the Union Pacific Railroad Co., sends a representative to Seattle to purchase land for trackage and for a new terminal. The Union Pacific’s inte...
On March 6, 1908, Seattle Mayor William Hickman Moore (1861-1946) signs an ordinance granting the Union Pacific Railway the right to enter the city.
In 1909, Seattle City Light installs an ornamental street lighting system in preparation for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. This improvement coincides with the extensive regrading of huge tracts...
On May 17, 1909, rival railroad companies Northern Pacific and Union Pacific agree to share Northern Pacific tracks reaching from Vancouver, Washington, to Seattle.
In January 1910, construction of the Oregon and Washington Station (now known as Union Station) begins at the corner of 4th Avenue and Jackson Street.
On New Year's Day, 1910, Seattle's first Union Pacific train steams into town, stopping at a temporary station at Railroad Avenue and Dearborn Street.
On May 20, 1911, Seattle's Oregon and Washington Station (now Union Station) opens amid fanfare. The terminal, located near Pioneer Square at 4th Avenue S and S Jackson Street, serves both the Union P...