Seattle_-_looking_east_on_Yesler_Way,_1887.jpg
Description Seattle - looking east on Yesler Way, 1887.jpg |
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Looking east on Yesler Way, Seattle, Washington, 1887. This is pre-
fire
; none of the buildings visible here survive.
Item 105459
, Fleets and Facilities Department Imagebank Collection (Record Series 0207-01),
Seattle Municipal Archives
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Date | 1887. Flicker upload 2009-10-21 09:02 | ||
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Author | Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA | ||
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Camera location | 47° 36′ 06.9″ N, 122° 20′ 08.62″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 47.601918; -122.335729 |
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Occidental Hotel, 1884, Donald MacKay. Replaced after the 1889 fire by the Hotel Seattle (a.k.a. Occidental Block); that building was demolished 1961, replaced by the "sinking ship" garage.
Yesler-Leary Building (Boone and Meeker 1883).
After the 1889 fire, this became the site of the Mutual Life Building (originally Yesler Building, one story built 1889, most of it dating from 1892, still extant 2009).
The pre-fire Post-Intelligencer building.
The very short-lived Yesler Block. Built 1887-1888, it burned in 1889 along with all of these other buildings.
A steep, pre-regrade, Second Avenue
Schwabacher Building (Boone and Meeker, 1883)
Built as an annex for the Scwabacher Brothers store on Commercial Street (Now 1st ave.). A new Schwabacher building was built in its place after the great fire, encompassing their entire L-shaped property.
small view of Frauenthal (Colman) Building (1876, Arthur Doyle)
One of Seattle's earliest two-story brick structures. It featured a high italiante design with cast iron elements. The Olympic Block was built on this site after the fire.
sign: "Z.C. Miles | Stoves, Ranges & Tinware"