Topic: Landmarks
Swedish immigrant Erick Sanders, a successful business and lumberman in Seattle and on Bainbridge Island, built this elaborate Craftsman house as a retirement home for himself and his wife Sara. Sande...
This hop shed in the Fall City area is the last remnant of what was the largest agricultural enterprise in King County during the 1880s -- growing and exporting hops. Hops, an essential ingredient in ...
The Masonic Hall, which stands in the heart of Fall City, has been a focus of community life for more than 100 years. The large, two-story wood frame lodge rises above the peaks and gables of the surr...
This striking example of Neoclassical design with a columned "Greek Temple" portico is the oldest remaining church building in Kirkland, and one of East King County's best-preserved examples of Classi...
This single-story farmhouse constructed in the Happy Valley east of Redmond by Gunnar and Anna Olson is a fine example of a pattern book Craftsman bungalow. In addition to the house, the 3.5-acre prop...
This 23-acre district, located several miles southeast of Vashon's business center, is significant for its association with the development and growth of the horticultural industry in King County from...
The Steen House, built in 1911 for Norwegian immigrants Hilmar and Selma Steen, is an outstanding example of Craftsman style architecture in rural King County. The large two-story house features a spa...
The Hjertoos Farm, with its prominent dairy barn and large late-Victorian farmhouse, was developed by a Norwegian family that arrived in the lower Snoqualmie Valley in the 1880s among a wave of settle...
Since its construction in 1937, the Issaquah Sportsmen's Clubhouse has housed the Issaquah Sportsmen's Club. The club was founded in 1920 as a recreation, social, and habitat conservation association....
Willowmoor, the country estate of James and Anna Herr Clise, stands at the center of King County's Marymoor Park, near Redmond. The Craftsman house was originally built as a hunting lodge and later re...
This file contains a list of King County bridges designated by the King County Landmarks Commission as Landmark Bridges.
Nils Peter Lagesson, a Swedish immigrant, filed his homestead claim in Maple Valley in 1885 and five years later built a two-room, hewn log house and two barns on 29 acres of orchard, pasture, and cul...
Lake Wilderness Lodge, designed by the Seattle architectural firm Young & Richardson, opened in 1950. The building was developed by the Gaffney family, which had operated Gaffney's Lake Wilderness...
In 1890, Major Newell started the Boys and Girls Aid Association, a school for indigent children in Seattle. The school moved to the northeast end of Mercer Island in 1904 and was operated by the Seat...
In 1920, the Maple Valley School District opened its new brick two-story school, which was prominently located on a knoll above Maple Valley's commercial center. The school with its fire resistant bri...
Ira and Jessie Case began building the Marjesira Inn in 1906 on a steep bluff overlooking Quartermaster Harbor in the Vashon summer community of Magnolia Beach, just south of Burton. With the help of ...
The mineworkers in Black Diamond's coal mines lived, for the most part, in simple wood frame houses. Once prevalent, few of these houses remain today, and those that survive have been expanded or alte...
The Mukai family played a pioneering role in developing technologies that made it possible to sell strawberries in distant markets. The Mukai home, Japanese garden, and strawberry packing plant stand ...
Aaron and Sarah Neely built this large Classical Revival farmhouse on acreage that they cultivated in the Green River Valley east of Auburn. The house, a prominent and impressive structure for a rural...
Built in 1904 by Fall City resident Emerson Neighbors, the house is the best local expression of Queen Anne vernacular architecture in the community. The home's most notable features are the high fron...
Few structures remain today which evoke suburban Newcastle's origins as a mining center. Discovered in 1863, by 1883 the Newcastle mines produced 22 percent of the coal shipped from the Pacific Coast ...
The 295-foot long Norman Bridge, spanning the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River near North Bend, is the only remaining example in King County of a timber truss vehicular bridge. (The bridge no longe...
The North Bend Masonic Hall is located in the heart of downtown North Bend. The two-story concrete building was designed with a ground store commercial space and the meeting space above. The Masons ha...
The heavy snowfalls in the Cascade mountain range posed a challenge to providing year-round train service through the mountains. Rotary snowplows, invented in the late nineteenth century, provided rai...