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Henry Branch, The Seattle Public Library, and its Neighborhood

The Susan J. Henry Branch, The Seattle Public Library, was located at 425 Harvard Avenue E on Seattle's Capitol Hill. Opened on August 26, 1954, the Henry Library was named for Susan J. Henry (1854-19...

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High Point Branch, The Seattle Public Library

The history of the High Point Branch, The Seattle Public Library is one of turbulence, from the housing boom and mass migrations of World War II to the immigration and urban violence of the 1990s. Sta...

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Historic Seattle: 114 21st Avenue

A house at 114 21st Avenue in Seattle, built in 1902, served from 1959 to 1962 as a model home and office for the Seattle Urban Renewal Enterprise (SURE), a nonprofit citizen’s advisory committe...

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Holl, Steven (b. 1947)

Architect Steven Holl is the designer of two notable King County buildings, Seattle University's Chapel of St. Ignatius (completed March 1997) which won an National A.I.A. award for Design Excellence,...

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Igloo, The -- Lost Landmark of Seattle's Auto-Tecture

The Igloo, a diner and drive-in restaurant at the southeast corner of 6th Avenue and Denny Way, operated from late 1940 until sometime in 1954. It featured a distinctive twin-domed design intended, li...

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International District / Chinatown Branch, The Seattle Public Library

Located at 713 8th Avenue S in the International District Village Square II, the International District/Chinatown Branch, The Seattle Public Library, opened on June 11, 2005. Financed by the "Librarie...

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Issaquah Self-Guided Walking Tour

Native Americans inhabited the Squak Valley for centuries before the first homesteaders arrived in the 1860s. The village they founded was incorporated under the name Gilman in 1892, and then renamed ...

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Italian Room, Seattle Art Museum

The Italian Room at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) brings sixteenth-century Italy to life in downtown Seattle. The wood-paneled room was built more than 400 years ago for a wealthy family in Chiavenna, ...

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Jones, Johnpaul (b. 1941)

One of perhaps 100 Native American architects in the United States, architect Johnpaul Jones has manifested his Choctaw/Cherokee heritage in the creation of an internationally significant legacy of pr...

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King County Land Use Survey -- a Remarkable WPA Project of the Great Depression

In 1936, King County undertook a major property survey, the King County Land Use Survey, which was financed by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). The project greatly added to the county'...

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King County Landmarks: Auburn Post Office

The Auburn Post Office was constructed in 1937, at a time when the Great Depression still gripped the American economy and psyche, the building was meant to do several things. A new post office was co...

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King County Landmarks: August Lovegren House (1904), Preston

The Lovegren house, a substantial two-story house with a wrap-around porch and bay windows, overlooks the community of Preston. The high-ceilinged Victorian style interior features elaborate handcraft...

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King County Landmarks: Black Diamond Cemetery

This community cemetery was established in the 1880s on a hilltop site at the edge of the thriving mining town of Black Diamond, then the biggest settlement in King County outside of Seattle. The ceme...

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King County Landmarks: Burton Masonic Hall (1894), Burton, Vashon Island

The Burton Masonic Hall, built in 1894, is a prominent structure in the Vashon Island community of Burton. Constructed by carpenter/builder Howard C. Stone, the building has a prominent front gable ro...

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King County Landmarks: Camp North Bend (1935), North Bend

Camp North Bend, located east of the town of North Bend at the base of Snoqualmie Pass, was constructed by and for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1935. Out of more than 4,000 "temporary" CCC...

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King County Landmarks: Captain Thomas Phillips House (1925), Burton, Vashon Island

Captain Phillips played an important role in the history of Puget Sound's "Mosquito Fleet" of steamboats (so called because they swarmed the inland waters and were considered pests by larger ocean-goi...

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King County Landmarks: Carnegie Public Library (1914), Auburn

The development of a public library in Auburn was part of a national movement spurred by the philanthropy of iron and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919). In 1911, the Auburn Library Board recei...

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King County Landmarks: Charles and Elvera Thomsen House (1927), Kenmore

Also known as Wildcliffe Farm, this elegant country home built in the French Provincial style sits on the south bank of the Sammamish River. The house was built for Charles and Elvera Thomsen. Thomsen...

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King County Landmarks: Colvos Store (1923), Colvos, Vashon Island

The Colvos Store opened in 1923 and immediately became a focal point for the Scandinavian community of Colvos on the west side of Vashon Island. The small, one-story country store, with its false fron...

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King County Landmarks: Commercial Hotel (1913), Carnation

Small hotels played a significant role in the economic and social development of King County's rural communities by providing temporary housing for newly arrived workers drawn by opportunities in boom...

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King County Landmarks: County-City Building - King County Courthouse (1916), Seattle

The King County Courthouse is a dignified example of early twentieth-century civic architecture in the Beaux-Arts style. In 1931, 10 stories were added to the 1916 four-story building to bring the cou...

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King County Landmarks: Crawford Store (1922), Shoreline

The Crawford Store is the last intact retail building in the historic Richmond Beach business district. John Holloway, an early resident of Richmond Beach, built the two-story structure in 1922. The b...

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King County Landmarks: Dockton General Store and Post Office (1908, 1922), Dockton, Maury Island

Located in the community of Dockton on the southwestern part of Maury Island, the general store and post office building is the only well-preserved example of an early twentieth century commercial bui...

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King County Landmarks: Dougherty Farmstead (1888), Duvall

Built in 1888 when Washington was still a territory, the Dougherty House has been at 26526 NE Cherry Valley Road since 1909. The house first stood closer to the Snoqualmie River, in the town of Cherry...

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