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| 1 | The road to West Seattle, 1916 | Home and Garden |
| In 1904, the settled area in the cove was named Youngstown after William Pigott and a local judge established the Seattle Steel plant there. At the far right in the “Now” photo, you can catch a glimpse of the plant (now Nucor) and that neighborhood. | ||
| 6/27/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | In West Seattle: A family home crafted for a crowd | Home and Garden |
| THIS GRAND three-floor West Seattle lodge-size home with a rustic porch and veranda looks west from about 350 feet above Puget Sound and six irregular blocks west of the highest point in Seattle. | ||
| 6/13/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | The scene in Kinnear Park, 1900 | Home and Garden |
| ON CHRISTMAS Day 1894, a landslide dropped a 150-foot swath off the bluff between the lower and upper parts of Kinnear Park into Elliott Bay. Seattle’s third park sits on the southwest brow of Queen Anne Hill. | ||
| 6/20/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | A dam mess in Fremont, 1914 | Home and Garden |
| TWO SENSATIONAL photographs appear on the front page of the Friday, March 13, 1914, issue of The Seattle Times. One is of the deadly Missouri Athletic Club fire in St. Louis. The other, from Portland, shows a “flame-wrapped” schooner drifting along the docks on the Willamette River. | ||
| 6/6/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | A place to stay still stands at Pike and Boren | Home and Garden |
| WHAT ARE now the Villa Apartments were first built at the busy intersection of Boren Avenue and Pike Street in 1909 for the then-principal tenant, the Hotel Reynolds. That year, a Seattle Times classified promised, “Everything new and up-to-date in every respect. | ||
| 5/23/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | The Corner Market Building, then and now | Home and Garden |
| COMPLETED IN 1912, five years after the Pike Place Market opened, the Corner Market Building is set like a keystone at the head of its landmark block bordered by First Avenue, Pike Street and Pike Place. | ||
| 5/30/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | A humble home for a big Seattle dreamer, ca. 1889 | Home and Garden |
| One of the five men posing beside The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s office may well be Leigh Hunt, who with his wife, Lizzie, was the owner of both the newspaper and the house. | ||
| 5/9/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Seattle span with an expansive view, ca. 1959 | Home and Garden |
| IN THE SEATTLE Times classifieds of Feb. 7, 1958, the state highway department sought “men wanted . . . to do design work in connection with the Seattle Freeway . . . First project is the Lake Washington Ship Canal Bridge. | ||
| 5/16/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Seek and you shall find old Seattle among the towers | Home and Garden |
| HERE IS an opportunity for readers to enjoy our deeply human urge to play hide and seek. What is made of bricks and tiles in the “then” panorama may still be discovered beside or behind the grand expanse of glass rising so high in the “now. | ||
| 4/4/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | The Littlefield Apartments are a Capitol Hill landmark | Home and Garden |
| THE LITTLEFIELD Apartments, a Capitol Hill neighborhood landmark at the corner of 19th Avenue East and East John Street, was described as 58 years old in a Seattle Times story about its 1968 sale to Arthur Kneifel. For his $120,000, Kneifel got a classic brick apartment house with 28 units. | ||
| 4/11/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | Seattle brick box on Fifth Avenue has a colorful past | Home and Garden |
| STANDING ALONE on a Denny Regrade lot, a 30-by-109-foot brick shoebox sits at 1921 Fifth Avenue. In the 1880s a pioneer-wagon road leading to Queen Anne Hill passed by here. | ||
| 4/18/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Seattle’s Great Fire no match for hotel’s foundation | Home and Garden |
| HERE WE stand, about a century ago, with an unidentified photographer recording five U.S. Postal Service teams and their drivers. The year is about 1905, six years after the Post Office moved from its headquarters on Columbia Street here to the Arlington Hotel. | ||
| 4/25/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Building bridges between neighbors in old Seattle | Home and Garden |
| WHILE I HAVE not yet found a date for this look into the Latona business district, I think it was recorded, perhaps by a municipal photographer, to show off the closely packed collection of three bridges that in their last days were fittingly called by one name, Latona. | ||
| 5/2/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Seattle: From tall trees to tall towers, ca. 1909 | Home and Garden |
| THE LOMBARDY poplars that once lined much of Madison Street from Fourth Avenue to Broadway made First Hill’s favorite arterial “the most attractive place in town. | ||
| 3/28/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | A frothy toast to Lady Rainier | Home and Garden |
| HERE IS Lady Rainier, bronzed and 10 feet tall, holding her glass high while standing in the courtyard of the Seattle Brewing and Malting Company’s Georgetown plant. The statue first appeared in The Seattle Times on Feb. | ||
| 2/14/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | 1911: When Polk directories were really big | Home and Garden |
| RIDING ITS own float south on Fourth Avenue is, perhaps, the largest Polk City Directory ever assembled. It is dated 1911, the year of this “Industrial Parade” for what was Seattle’s first Golden Potlatch, a summer celebration staged intermittently until World War II. | ||
| 2/21/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | 1971: When Seattle General Hospital lost its life support | Home and Garden |
| I did not know, yet I answered, “Has it changed channels?” I was, of course, alluding to the TV soap opera, “General Hospital.” | ||
| 2/28/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Built for show, sacred and otherwise | Home and Garden |
| Local architect Hermann Steinman presented the drawings as a gift to the new congregation. Soon after the construction commenced mid-May 1889, the church’s rising belfry was easily visible around the city. | ||
| 3/7/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | From this grand Seattle home came a trove of good deeds | Home and Garden |
| BUILT IN 1887 by Sarah and Dr. Thomas Minor, it was one of the earliest grand homes built on First Hill. Originally painted a green so dark it was “almost black,” the house had red trim that contrasted nicely. But the Minors’ stay there was brief. | ||
| 3/14/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Church and state, revivals and removals: 1907 | Home and Garden |
| TWO STRUCTURES stand out in this 1907 look across Union Street into the old campus of the Territorial University. Both seem incomplete. The ornate one on top with the comely belfry is the Territorial University building itself, stripped of its columns while still awaiting its fate. | ||
| 3/21/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||