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Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board
The City of Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board is responsible for designating and preserving structures of historical importance in Seattle, Washington. The board recommends actions to the Seattle City Council, which fashions these into city ordinances with the force of law. The board is part of the city's Department of Neighborhoods. The board consists of eleven members appointed by the mayor and approved by the city council. By its establishing ordinance, the board must include at least two architects, two historians, one member of the City Planning Commission, one structural engineer, and one person each representing the fields of finance and real estate management. , more than 450 individual Seattle sites, buildings, vehicles, vessels, and street clocks have been designated as Seattle Landmarks subject to protection by city ordinance. History The board was established in 1973 as part of a rise in consciousness about historic preservation in Seattle and elsewhere. In 1966 the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle Landmarks
Seattle ( ) is the List of municipalities in Washington, most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the List of United States cities by population, 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the county seat of King County, Washington, King County, the List of counties in Washington, most populous county in Washington. The Seattle metropolitan area's population is 4.02 million, making it the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 15th-most populous in the United States. Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 made it one of the country's fastest-growing large cities. Seattle is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and Lake Washington. It is the northernmost major city in the United States, located about south of the Canada–United States border, Canadian border. A gateway for trade with East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sand Point Naval Air Station Historic District
Naval Station Puget Sound is a former United States Navy, United States Naval station located on Sand Point (peninsula), Sand Point in Seattle, Washington. Today, the land is occupied by Magnuson Park. History The area around Sand Point and Pontiac Bay was donated to the Seattle city government in 1918 by Morgan J. Carkeek to form a new city park, which was named Carkeek Park. The park was condemned by the federal government in 1926 for use as a naval air station; a $25,000 payment was used to establish Carkeek Park, new Carkeek Park on the west side of the city, north of Ballard, Seattle, Washington, Ballard on Puget Sound. In 1922 the United States Navy, U.S. Navy began construction on the site, which it was leasing from the county, and in 1926 the Navy was deeded the field outright. This deed amounted to a public gift of $500,000 from the county to the Navy (equivalent to $ in dollars) The Seattle Chamber of Commerce—a commercial entity—had done the same thing for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle Japanese Garden
The Seattle Japanese Garden is a Japanese garden in the Madison Park neighborhood of Seattle. The garden is located in the southern end of the Washington Park Arboretum on Lake Washington Boulevard East. The garden is one of the oldest Japanese gardens in North America, and is regarded as one of the most authentic Japanese gardens in the United States. History Proposals to construct a Japanese garden in Seattle date back to the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, which included a temporary Japanese Pavilion with a garden for the world's fair. The new Washington Park Arboretum was proposed as the site of the garden by 1937, but its construction was not undertaken at the time due to racial tensions and the onset of World War II. The Arboretum Foundation began fundraising for the project in 1957 ahead of the 1962 World's Fair and consulted with Japanese diplomats based in Seattle to solicit donations and potential designs. Fujitaro Kubota, a local gardener and landscaper wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' (popularly known as the ''Seattle P-I'', the ''Post-Intelligencer'', or simply the ''P-I'') is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, United States. The newspaper was founded in 1863 as the weekly ''Seattle Gazette'', and was later published daily in broadsheet format. It was long one of the city's two daily newspapers, along with ''The Seattle Times'', until it became an online-only publication on March 18, 2009. History J.R. Watson founded the ''Seattle Gazette'', Seattle's first newspaper, on December 10, 1863. The paper failed after a few years and was renamed the ''Weekly Intelligencer'' in 1867 by new owner Sam Maxwell. In 1878, after publishing the ''Intelligencer'' as a morning daily, printer Thaddeus Hanford bought the ''Daily Intelligencer'' for $8,000. Hanford also acquired Beriah Brown's daily ''Puget Sound Dispatch'' and the weekly ''Pacific Tribune'' and folded both pap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montlake Cut
The Montlake Cut is the easternmost section of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, which passes through the city of Seattle, linking Lake Washington to Puget Sound. It opened in 1916 after 56 years of conversation and construction to create the manmade canal. The path along the cut was designated a National Recreation Trail as Montlake Cut National Waterside in 1971. The cut provides a connection between Union Bay, part of Lake Washington, to the east and Portage Bay, an arm of Lake Union, to the west. It is spanned by the Montlake Bridge, a bascule drawbridge carrying Montlake Boulevard ( State Route 513). Most of the land on the north shore of the cut is occupied by the University of Washington, its medical school to the west and its stadium parking lot to the east; residences and a recreational trail occupy the south bank, which is part of the Montlake neighborhood. Before the creation of the Montlake Cut, the land was regularly used by the Duwamish tribe and the holds i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montlake Bridge
The Montlake Bridge is a double-leaf bascule bridge that carries Washington State Route 513, State Route 513 (Montlake Boulevard) over Seattle's Montlake Cut—part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal—connecting Montlake, Seattle, Washington, Montlake and the University District, Seattle, Washington, University District. It is the easternmost bridge spanning the canal. The bridge is long, and was designed by Carl F. Gould, one of the original architects of the University of Washington campus. The bridge and its control towers were designed in conjunction with the university's Collegiate Gothic style. It provides a clearance of and is reported as providing of vertical clearance above the mean regulated level of Lake Washington for the central of the bascule span. It is one of four original bascule-type drawbridges over the Ship Canal, the others being the Ballard Bridge, Ballard, Fremont Bridge (Seattle), Fremont, and University Bridge (Seattle), University bridges. It was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norton Building
The Norton Building is a post-World War II office building in the International Style, located in Seattle, Washington, United States. Built on a sloping lot with the foundation of a large granite base, the building rises 17 stories above the city. It is notable as one of the first post-World War II private office buildings in the city and among the first in the country to use pre-stressed concrete construction. Furthermore, its Modernism contrasts with the neighboring Exchange Building which is in the Art Deco style. The Norton Building was constructed on the site of the Haller Building, which was built in 1889 and was demolished in 1957. The new tower opened on October 30, 1959. The Norton Building was designated as a city landmark by the Seattle City Council in 2009. Tenants The Norton Building has housed multiple tenants including LMN Architects, the ''Puget Sound Business Journal American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Methodist Protestant Church Of Seattle
First Methodist Protestant Church of Seattle (Capitol Hill United Methodist Church, Catalysis) is an historic building, originally built and used as a church, at 128 16th Avenue East in Seattle, Washington. It was built in 1906 and added to the National Register in 1993. The church that was originally housed in this building, First Methodist Protestant Church of Seattle, later known as Capitol Hill United Methodist Church, was founded by Rev. Daniel Bagley in 1865 and met in buildings in downtown Seattle until the construction of this building on Capitol Hill. In 1991, due to declining membership and increasing costs of building upkeep, the church moved out of the building. The building was renovated from a church to an office building in 2004, and is currently owned and occupied by Catalysis Corporation, a Seattle-based digital marketing agency. Neither the church nor the building should be confused with the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Seattle, which was founded in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle Times Building
The Seattle Times Building was an office building in the South Lake Union, Seattle, South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. It served as the former headquarters of ''The Seattle Times'' from 1931 to 2011, replacing the earlier Times Square Building. The three-story building was originally built in 1931 and later expanded to accommodate more office space and larger printing press, presses. The exterior and roof of the Seattle Times Building were designated a List of Seattle landmarks, city landmark in 1996. Designed by Robert Reamer, Robert C. Reamer with elements of the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne, Moderne styles, the reinforced concrete building was representative of early 20th century architecture in Seattle. The newspaper moved out of the building in 2011 and sold it in 2013 to Onni Group, a Canadian real estate developer, who plans to build four residential skyscrapers on the site and adjacent parking lot to the south. Onni plans to preserve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arctic Building
The Arctic Club Building is a ten-story hotel in Seattle, Washington located at the Northeast corner of Third Avenue and Cherry Street. Built in 1914 for the Arctic Club, a social group established by wealthy individuals who experienced Alaska's gold rush ( Klondike Gold Rush), it was occupied by them from construction until the club's dissolution in 1971. It is entirely faced with cream white terra cotta with submarine blue and orange-brown accents. The building is recognizable by the terra cotta walrus head sculptures lining the third floor of the building and its iconic polar bear in the Polar Bar, the hotel's bar and cocktail lounge. It is one of the finest examples of multi-colored matte glaze terra cotta work in the city. Recently restored, the building has been adapted for use as a luxury hotel, Arctic Club Seattle. A rooftop garden used by the social club was replaced with a penthouse office suite. It was designed by architect A. Warren Gould. With (text also availablhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terracotta
Terracotta, also known as terra cotta or terra-cotta (; ; ), is a clay-based non-vitreous ceramic OED, "Terracotta""Terracotta" MFA Boston, "Cameo" database fired at relatively low temperatures. It is therefore a term used for earthenware objects of certain types, as set out below. Usage and definitions of the term vary, such as: *In art, pottery, applied art, and craft, "terracotta" is a term often used for red-coloured earthenware sculptures or functional articles such as flower pots, water and waste water pipes, and tableware. *In archaeology and art history, "terracotta" is often used to describe objects such as figurines and loom weights not made on a potter's wheel, with vessels and other objects made on a wheel from the same material referred to as earthenware; the choice of term depends on the type of object rather than the material or shaping technique. *Terracotta is also used to refer to the natural brownish-orange color of most terracotta. *In architecture, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnuson Park
Magnuson Park is a park in the Sand Point, Seattle, Sand Point neighborhood of Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, United States. At it is the second-largest park in Seattle, after Discovery Park (Seattle), Discovery Park in Magnolia, Seattle, Magnolia (which covers ). Magnuson Park is located at the site of the former Naval Station Puget Sound, on the Sand Point (peninsula), Sand Point peninsula with Pontiac and Wolf bays that juts into Lake Washington in northeast Seattle. History Early history The area has been inhabited since the end of the last Ice age#Glaciation in North America, glacial period (c. 8,000 BCE—10,000 years ago). Prairie or tall grassland areas (anthropogenic grasslands) were maintained along what is now Sand Point Way NE (ma, among numerous locations in what is now Seattle. The ''Xacuabš'' (''Xachua'bsh'' or ''hah-choo-AHBSH'', "the People of the Large Lake", now of the Duwamish tribe) had the village of ''TLEHLS'' ("minnows" or "shiners") on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
