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The Club was founded in 1965 by John "Jack" W. Campbell (born 1932) and two other investors who paid $15,000 to buy a closed Finnish bath house in Cleveland, Ohio. Campbell wanted to provide cleaner, brighter amenities that were a contrast to the dark, dirty environment that existed previously. [2]
The Rainier Club was first proposed at a February 23, 1888 meeting of six Seattle civic leaders; it was formally incorporated July 25, 1888. The attendees of the original meeting were J. R. McDonald, president of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway; John Leary, real estate developer and former Seattle mayor; Norman Kelly; R. C. Washburn, editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Bailey ...
Women's University Club of Seattle [39] 1105 Sixth Avenue: Woodin House [40] 5801 Corson Avenue South: a.k.a. Dr. Scott and Imogene Woodin House [41] Yesler Houses (H. L. Yesler's First Addition, Block 32, Lots 12, 13 & 14) 103, 107 and 109 23rd Avenue: Yesler Terrace Steam Plant: 120 8th Avenue: YMCA Central Branch: South Building: 909 4th Avenue
The hotel was built by the first Japanese-American architect in Seattle, Sabro Ozasa, and contains the last remaining Japanese bathhouse in the United States. [ 3 ] The Panama Hotel was essential to the Japanese community, the building housed businesses, a bathhouse, sleeping quarters for residents and visitors, and restaurants. [ 4 ]
This 1916 photo of First Avenue in Seattle shows the Kenneth Hotel just left of center; the building is now replaced by multi-story parking lot. 47°36′10″N 122°20′05″W / 47.602723°N 122.334786°W / 47.602723; -122.334786 ( The Penthouse (Seattle) ) The Penthouse was a jazz club in Seattle , most remembered for John ...
The gardens and the apple orchard of the old school largely remain. The pool has been filled in and converted into a garden, and the bath house has been converted into a picnic shelter. Amid the orchard are a playground and two playfields, and to the south side is a demonstration garden operated by Tilth Alliance, and a P-Patch community garden ...
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), [3] it was occupied by them from construction until the club's dissolution in 1971.
The Garden of Allah was a mid-20th century gay cabaret that opened in 1946 [1] [2] in the basement of the Victorian-era Arlington Hotel in Seattle's Pioneer Square.It was Seattle's most popular gay cabaret in the late 1940s and 1950s [3] and one of the first gay-owned gay bars in the United States. [1]