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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.
Frye developed bakery, butcher, and lumber businesses in the city. With Seattle founders Arthur A. Denny and Henry L. Yesler, he established the first sawmill and grist mill of the city. Frye erected a number of significant Seattle buildings. His first building was the Frye Opera House, which burned down during the Great Seattle Fire in 1889 ...
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). It destroyed nearly the entire business district, all of the railroad terminals, and all but four of the wharves.
Seattle Photographs Ongoing database of over 1,700 historical photographs of Seattle with special emphasis on images depicting neighborhoods, recreational activities including baseball, the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, "The Great Snow of 1916", theaters and transportation. Arthur Churchill Warner Photographs.
At approximately 2:20 p.m. on June 6, 1889, an accidentally overturned glue pot in a carpentry shop started the most destructive fire in the history of Seattle. After this Great Seattle Fire, [1] [2] new construction was required to be of masonry, and the town's streets were regraded one to two stories higher.
1820 – Great Savannah Fire burned almost 500 structures, with damages of about US$4 million. [14] 1821 – Paramaribo, Suriname, fire destroyed over 400 houses. 1821 – Great Fire of Fayetteville destroyed 500 buildings in the city. 1825 – The 1825 Miramichi Fire destroyed the city of Miramichi, New Brunswick.
Graham arrived in Seattle by 1884, [5] charged with "Keeping House of Prostitution" by King [County] Frontier Justice by 1887; [6] the city, barely three decades old, was at the tail end of a period (from November 23, 1883, until a series of court decisions in 1887–1888 [7]) in which women's suffrage had led to a triumph of "reform" politics there.
Josiah Collins V (1864-1949) was an American attorney, civil servant and politician who was Seattle Fire Commissioner and a State Senator. He was Seattle's Fire Chief at the time of the Great Seattle Fire on June 6, 1889. On that date, he was in San Francisco, attending a regional conference of Fire Chiefs.