Keyword(s): Paul Dorpat
"Festival 71" was the first of what would become an annual music and arts festival at Seattle Center that became known as "Bumbershoot" starting in 1973. In this People's History, Seattle historian (a...
Between 1890 and 1906, Seattle's Denny/Washington Hotel, advertised as "The Scenic Hotel of the West," straddled 3rd Avenue between Stewart and Virginia streets on the south summit of Denny Hill. (Den...
When it was new in 1911, the Frye Hotel, designed by Bebb and Mendel, was described by consensus as simply the finest hotel in Seattle. It was also one of the highest of the city's new steel-frame bri...
Ivar Haglund, Seattle character, folksinger, and restaurateur was known as "King of the Waterfront," and also "Mayor" and "Patriarch" of the waterfront. He began as a folksinger, and in 1938 establish...
This reminiscence of Murray Morgan (1916-2000), the preeminent Northwest historian, is by Paul Dorpat, HistoryLink's principal historian, and an old friend of Murray Morgan's.
This file contains Seattle historian and photographer Paul Dorpat's Now & Then photographs and reflections on a terrific fire that burned from the Seattle waterfront into Belltown on the night of ...
This file contains the Seattle historian and photographer Paul Dorpat's Now & Then photographs and reflections on the University of Washington's Denny Hall, first UW building to be built (in 1894)...
This file contains Seattle historian and photographer Paul Dorpat's Now & Then photographs and reflections on the earliest extant photograph of Fremont, taken in 1888 by David Judkins.
This file contains Seattle historian and photographer Paul Dorpat's Now & Then photographs and reflections on the Fiore d'Italia Restaurant on 5th Avenue S in Seattle.
This entry contains Seattle historian and photographer Paul Dorpat's photograph and reflections on the counterbalance system of getting trolley cars up the steep grade of Queen Anne Hill around 1905.
This file contains Seattle historian and photographer Paul Dorpat's Now & Then photographs and reflections on St. Anne's Catholic parish in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood.
This file contains Seattle historian and photographer Paul Dorpat's Now & Then photographs and reflections on Georgetown's historic Rainier Brewery. Georgetown became a neighborhood of Seattle whe...
This essay contains Seattle historian and photographer Paul Dorpat's Now & Then photographs and reflections on the November 1911 flood on the Cedar River and the damage it caused downstream in Ren...
This file contains Seattle historian and photographer Paul Dorpat's Now & Then photographs and reflections on the Seattle Waterfront in 1901 and the 1901 Gold Rush.
In 1876, the City of Seattle buys the site of the future Volunteer Park. Volunteer Park is located on Capitol Hill between E Prospect and E Galer streets and Federal Avenue E and 15th Avenue E. The la...
On January 5, 1880, the Big Snow of 1880 begins to fall just after the territorial governor's State of the Territory report assures the world that "ice and snow are almost unknown in Washington Territ...
In 1890, the Lowell School opens on Seattle's future Capitol Hill (Mercer Street and Federal Avenue) with the name Pontius School. By 1892 the name has changed to Columbia School and the school employ...
In the fall of 1901, Seattle's Capitol Hill gets its name. Before this it is called Broadway Hill. Most descriptions of how the hill got its name turn on one of two stories.
In 1902, Broadway High School opens (as Seattle High School) on Capitol Hill on the corner of Broadway and E Pine Street. It is Seattle's first building specifically constructed as a high school. The ...
In 1903, Methodists form a congregation in the Ravenna neighborhood of Seattle. The congregation was formed as a home mission of Seattle's second oldest congregation, the First Methodist Protestant ch...
In August 1903, the Ringling Bros. Circus comes to Seattle. A circus parade including at least 12 elephants as well as tableaus (carved wagons that resembled the gilded fantasies of a deranged royalty...
In the spring of 1906, the University Branch, The Seattle Public Library, opens on University Way (called the "Ave") and 42nd Street, even before the street is paved, as befits an erudite university c...
On February 25, 1910, an elegant outdoor stairway that climbs to Capitol Hill from Seattle's Cascade neighborhood is completed. The stairway is known as the Republican Hill Climb because it follows th...
On May 30, 1915, a few minutes before 2 a.m., the scow T.T.B., carrying 15 tons of gelatin dynamite and tied to a city buoy at the Elliott Bay end of Harbor Island, ignites. In Seattle, the few locals...
In 1928, Broadway Market on Capitol Hill opens. For 30 years this market serves as a collection of independently owned small shops. At one time these included a creamery, florist, two delis, a fish ma...
In 1960, Ivar Haglund (1905-1985), owner of the "Acres of Clams" restaurant, known as Seattle's "king of the waterfront," proposes a postage stamp honoring the clam. The occasion was the suggestion by...
On July 4, 1965, Ivar Haglund (1905-1985), known as the "King of the Waterfront," restaurateur, owner of Acres of Clams, folk singer, begins the Ivar's Fourth of July fireworks on Elliott Bay in downt...
On June 7, 1966, Ivar Haglund (1905-1985) buys Pier 54 on the Seattle waterfront, home of his Acres of Clams restaurant, for $500,000.