Topic: Buildings
This history of West Queen Anne School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building used...
This history of West Seattle Elementary School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building u...
This history of West Seattle High School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building used by...
This history of West Woodland Elementary School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building ...
This history of Whitman Middle School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building used ...
This history of Whittier Elementary School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building ...
This history of Whitworth Elementary School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building...
This history of William Cullen Bryant Elementary School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school b...
This history of Wing Luke Elementary School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building used...
This history of Woodrow Wilson Junior High School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school buildin...
This history of Worth McClure Middle School is taken from the second edition of Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, which includes histories of every school building used...
Seattle University's Chapel of St. Ignatius, dedicated on April 6, 1997, was the first major work in the region designed by Steven Holl (b. 1947), a New York architect born in Bremerton, raised locall...
The City of West Seattle was annexed to Seattle in 1907, in large measure to improve the community's access to sufficient water and other utilities. Even so, well more than two decades would pass befo...
Seattle’s waterfront is a place where people have been gathering, trading, and playing for centuries, even as the actual ground beneath it has changed from tidelands to dry land and the vessels ...
During the early twentieth century, America fell in love with the movies, and Seattle was no exception. It all began in December 1894 when Seattleites were introduced to Thomas Edison's newest inventi...
Seattle's Belltown neighborhood just north of downtown was home to the Northwest's Film Row even before the dawn of "talkies" in the late 1920s. Hollywood's major movie studios based regional distribu...
Shadle Park High School, located at 4327 N Ash Street in northwest Spokane, was built in the mid-1950s and opened for classes in September 1957. Designed by Culler, Gale, Martell & Norriet, the buildi...
Sicks' Stadium, built in 1938, was a Seattle landmark for more than four decades. Located in Rainier Valley at the intersection of Rainier Avenue and McClelland Street, the baseball stadium was home t...
In this account, Sally Flood remembers the games at Seattle's Sicks' Stadium in the late 1930s.
The Sinclair Park Community Center was the nexus of Sinclair Park, often called Sinclair Heights because of its location atop a large hill west of Bremerton (Kitsap County). Sinclair Park was a housin...
The innovative designs and professional achievements of structural engineer John Skilling have drawn widespread recognition for projects that shape the skyline of Seattle and other cities around the w...
When Seattle's pyramid-capped Smith Tower officially opened on July 4, 1914, its greatest claim to fame was its 462-foot height. It was originally one of the tallest buildings in the country outside o...
The Snohomish County Courthouse, located at 3021 Wetmore in Everett, was built between 1909 and 1911 to replace an earlier building destroyed by fire on August 2, 1909. August Franklin Heide (1862-19...
The origins of formal education in Snohomish can be traced to the living room of Mary Low Sinclair. Mary, whose husband Woodbury had purchased a land claim at a remote logging outpost t...