The Rainier-Grand Hotel stood over Seattle’s waterfront for four decades and served as Seattle’s premiere tourist hotel. This is the missing chronicle of the Rainier-Grand…
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Published February 17, 2021
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Published February 12, 2020
Utsunomiya, 1952 and 2019
Scenes of Utusnomiya, Japan from 1952 rephotographed in 2019.
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Published February 3, 2020
Soule House, now and 1899
The photos are taken in Seattle on Broadway looking northeast to James. The archival photo is from University of Washington Special Collections, number SEA3080. In…
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Published November 17, 2019
Finding Mount Jennings
Mount Jennings was as close to a spite mound as you’ll get in Ballard, and had more spite than the mounds in Seattle. It sat…
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Published November 12, 2019
Mount Jennings, Ballard’s spite mound
Any historian would be satisfied with the simple anecdote of Jennings and his Jennings’ Addition street names. It is a relative spoil of humorous riches…
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Published November 8, 2019
Ballard streets named by A. B. Jennings
Here’s the story, expanded now, that made me start researching Arthur Jennings. It started with Ballard streets. Stick with me here. We’re almost at the…
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Published November 1, 2019
Jennings brothers in Ballard
While the Denny Hotel’s supervising architect kicked off the fourteen years it took to build in 1889 and 1890, the city of Ballard was created.…
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Published October 30, 2019
Denny Hotel construction lasted one long decade
So far in Summiting Mount Jennings we’ve learned about the Denny Hotel’s design phase under architect A. B. Jennings, and about its supervising architect Albert…
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Published October 29, 2019
Revealing Albert Wickersham
To build the Denny Hotel, Arthur Jennings entered a partnership with architect Albert Wickersham, who took over supervision of construction. Some details of Wickersham’s history…
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Published October 28, 2019
Denny Hotel designer A. B. Jennings
While researching an oddity in Ballard called Mount Jennings I entered several blind spots in Seattle’s history. This, a brief article about the Denny Hotel…
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