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A visual history of Pioneer Square and immediately surrounding neighborhoods, by the Burke Museum. Guide to the Pioneer Square Preservation District Records 1970-1997 Steven Dutch, Seattle Underground , includes numerous pictures of the neighborhood and the "underground"
The Pioneer Square totem pole, also referred to as the Seattle totem pole and historically as the Chief-of-All-Women pole, is a Tlingit totem pole located in Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle, Washington. The original totem pole was carved in 1790 and raised in the Tlingit village on Tongass Island, Alaska to honor the Tlingit woman Chief-of ...
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 streets were elevated.
During Prohibition, the Pioneer Building was the clandestine location of "Seattle's First Speakeasy." [citation needed] The downtown area began to grow northward, prompting businesses to move in the same direction. By the 1950s and '60s, the entire Pioneer Square district had fallen upon hard times.
The Pioneer Square Pergola is a cast iron and glass pergola in Pioneer Square, a park in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States.It was built in 1909 to shelter passengers waiting for cable cars on the James Street and Yesler Way lines.
Smith Tower is a skyscraper in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.Completed in 1914, the 38-story, 462 ft (141 m) tower was among the tallest skyscrapers outside New York City at the time of its completion. [7]
In 2002, the organization controlling the square had plans to add a large ice skating rink for four months of the year, at a cost of $12 million. [19] [20] The Pioneer Square group and Project for Public Spaces thought the rink would make the square more active in the winter months, and had funding pledged by The Oregonian and Wells Fargo Bank ...
The Mutual Life Building, originally known as the Yesler Building, is an historic office building located in Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood that anchors the West side of the square. The building sits on one of the most historic sites in the city; the original location of Henry Yesler 's cookhouse that served his sawmill in the early ...