Topic: Landmarks
Live music has been a key facet of community life in Pioneer Square since the 1850s. Seattle's first saloon/brothel that also offered dance music played by a rollicking trio was built in 1861 and ever...
Pioneer Square has long been an important location and center of activity for the residents of this area. Prior to non-Native settlement, they used the area as a winter village known as Sdzidzilalitch...
Point Defiance Park, founded in Tacoma in 1888, is a 760-acre urban splendor featuring many natural and recreational amenities including a zoo and aquarium, gardens and lawns, Owen’s Beach and a...
The Point No Point Lighthouse, built in 1879 by the U. S. Lighthouse Service, is considered to be the oldest lighthouse on Puget Sound. It marks the hazardous Point No Point shoal and north entrance t...
Pioneer Square is not only the oldest neighborhood in Seattle, but also the place where galleries and artist studios first took hold and where the nation's first monthly Art Walk was established. This...
The National Guard Armory in Puyallup was home to National Guard units since the 1950s, beginning with Battery B, 240th Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion. It later hosted other artillery units an...
The Reard-Freed farmhouse in Sammamish (King County), built in 1895, has a long and rich local history, and the original farmstead on which the house was built has the distinction of being the only lo...
The 74 acres that comprise Seattle Center have played a pivotal role in the region’s history. The defining moment came in 1962 when the Century 21 Exposition, also known as the Seattle World&rsq...
The following letter, written by Glenn Barney to the Seattle Landmark Preservation Board on March 17, 2003, is in the public domain files of the Seattle Landmark Preservation Board. In the letter Barn...
At the end of the nineteenth century, Smith's Cove extended north along 15th Avenue W. Slavic and Finnish immigrants established a community at the foot of Queen Anne Hill along the shore. They built ...
Martin D. Ballard (1832-1907) arrived in the Northwest across the Oregon Trail in 1852. After living in Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, Ballard settled in Seattle in 1882. In 1885, he organized the Seattl...
In 1910, Ellsworth Storey (1879-1960) designed this craftsman style frame building as the Beacon Hill Congregational Church. It included large Tudor arched windows and a square tower with Tudor arches...
The Bethany Presbyterian Church is the third home for this congregation which began in 1888. The English Gothic style building has an L shape, with the nave oriented toward the street. The structure p...
In 1914, George G. Black wanted a new home for the manufacture of his Black Bear brand of overalls. He was concerned for the health and welfare of his employees and sought a departure from the sweatsh...
Betty Bowen (1918-1977) was a patron of Seattle arts, a founding member of the Northwest Arts and Crafts Center, and an organizer of the Friends of the Market. She supported the careers of Mark Tobey,...
Lawyer and real estate developer John E. Boyer (1866-1961) commissioned E.W. Sankey to design a home in the Interlaken Addition of Seattle. Sankey used heavy stone, English-style half timbering, Prair...
Lumberman John Stuart Brace (1861-1918) used his own company, Brace and Hergert Mill to construct a palatial home on the south slope of Queen Anne Hill in 1904. The firm of Kerr and Rogers designed th...
William R. Brehm and George O. Brehm operated produce and grocery businesses in Pike Place Market. Ellsworth Storey (1879-1960) built two adjacent homes for them in the Madrona Park neighborhood. The ...
In 1909, Seattle Hardware Co. founder Charles H. Black (d. 1922) built a large home on 1.7 acres on the south slope of Queen Anne Hill. The Seattle firm of Bebb and Mendel designed the house in an ecl...
Real Estate developer George S. List built a 13-room Victorian residence in the Madrona neighborhood with a view of Lake Washington and the Cascades. The main entrance was constructed to face the lake...
With the completion of the street car line to Queen Anne Hill, the neighborhood became a popular residential area. Charles Russell Collins was general manager of the Seattle Gas and Electric Co., chai...
The Church of the Immaculate Conception, built in 1904, is the oldest standing Catholic Church in Seattle. Jesuit priests founded the Church and School of the Immaculate Conception in 1891. The school...
Concord School is the third public elementary school for South Park since 1892. Once a community of Italian and Japanese farmers, South Park is hemmed in by freeways and industr. As of 2025, Concord S...
Seattle real estate developer George Kinnear built this four-story apartment building near his own home on Queen Anne Hill for friends and visitors to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. It was desig...