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King Street Station is a red brick masonry and steel frame building with terra cotta and cast stone ornamentation, through relatively subdued in comparison to the clock tower. The architectural style is sometimes denoted as "Railroad Italianate" with definite Italian inspirations on the interior and in the clock tower while the base shows ...
English: King Street Station and Union Station, Seattle, Washington, ca. 1913 Photographer: Curtis, Asahel Subjects (LCSH): Union Station (Seattle, Wash.) King Street Station--Washington (State)--Seattle
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King Street Station, Seattle. King Street Station opened in 1906. Its clock tower, rising 242 feet, was built to resemble the bell tower of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy. At the time, it ...
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[12] [13] Both buildings had been surpassed in height by the clocktower of King Street Station, opened in 1906, which stands 245 feet (75 m) tall. [ 14 ] Seattle's continued growth at the turn of the century, bolstered by the hosting of the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition in 1909 and the opening of the Metropolitan Tract to development, led ...
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The International District/Chinatown station of the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel is located directly adjacent to Union Station, mostly below street level. It opened in 1990 by Metro Transit to serve buses and was renovated in the 2000s to also accommodate Link light rail trains on Sound Transit's 1 Line . [ 7 ]