
Underground convenience, sheltered from the storm
To meet a very specific demand for a rejuvenated Pioneer Square in the early 1900s, architect Julian Everett designed an elaborate underground lavatory that survived...
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To meet a very specific demand for a rejuvenated Pioneer Square in the early 1900s, architect Julian Everett designed an elaborate underground lavatory that survived...
Reginald Heber Thomson, Seattle's city engineer beginning in 1892, led an ambitious effort to literally dig the city out of a hole by attacking its...
A revised edition of the 1987 monograph "The Coals of Newcastle: A Hundred Years of Hidden History" is a mother lode of history, with 200...
ACT Theatre's production of "A Christmas Carol" has been a Seattle tradition for 45 years. This year, it will adapt to an online audio show,...
Renowned photographer Asahel Curtis explored every corner of Washington, capturing "slice-of-life" photos, breathtaking vistas and this 1932 image from the south end of the Yakima...
The fireproof masonry stonework of the Post Edwards (aka the Hotel Vendome), built one year after the 1889 Great Seattle Fire, offered a sense of...
Before the Highway 99 tunnel replaced the Alaskan Way Viaduct, another Seattle tunnel, completed 115 years ago, attempted to solve a waterfront problem. At the...
This week's "Then" photo captures the Ship Canal Bridge over Lake Union during construction in October 1960. Within a year, the bridge would span the...
Twenty years before Greyhound acquired it, Seattle's Central Terminal was erected in 1927 by the Stone and Webster Management Company, a nationwide utilities cartel with...
This week's "Then" photo is from a collection, dating between 1921 and 1923 and shot by an anonymous photographer, that features more than 60 images...