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The Seattle Underground. The facade seen here was at street level in the mid-1800s. The Seattle Underground is a network of underground passageways and basements in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. They were located at ground level when the city was built in the mid-19th century but fell into disuse after ...
The Great Seattle Fire was a fire that destroyed the entire central business district of Seattle, Washington, on June 6, 1889.The conflagration lasted for less than a day, burning through the afternoon and into the night, during the same summer as the Great Spokane Fire and the Great Ellensburg Fire.
View of 1st Avenue from Columbia Street after Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889. 1st Avenue South in Pioneer Square is built over and adjacent to "areaways" comprising Underground Seattle, dating to rebuilding following the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. [5] The fire began where the Federal Office Building (Seattle) now stands. Street level was ...
Visitors can take the Seattle Underground Tour to see what remains of the old storefronts. Just before the fire, cable car service was instituted from Pioneer Square along Yesler Way to Lake Washington and the Leschi neighborhood. In 1891, German-born Frederick Trump, President Donald Trump's grandfather, owned the Dairy Restaurant on ...
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The early Seattle era came to a stunning halt with the Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889. Started by a glue pot, the fire burned 29 city blocks (almost entirely wooden buildings; about 10 brick buildings also burned).
As a Seattle historian, Speidel was something of a revisionist and the narration of the Underground Tour reflects that. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Doc Maynard , whom Speidel called "The Man Who Invented Seattle", was given short shrift in what Speidel characterized as the "Party Line" on the city's history, in part because the longer-lived Arthur Denny was so ...
In the Seattle Underground under the old clinic, Kolchak finds the preserved ruins of Westside Mercy Hospital and sends Louise to summon police. Kolchak finds the latest victim of the Night Strangler-an old tramp he had seen earlier during a tour of the Seattle Underground. Dr. Malcolm/Richards is alerted by Kolchak's stumbling.