Horace and Susie Revels Cayton, the publishers of Seattle’s leading Black newspaper, invited Black men and women to come to Seattle for the 1909 Alaska…
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Published January 7, 2022
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Published January 2, 2022
Auto Row Apartments
At 12th Avenue and Pike Street, Capitol Hill’s former Auto Row Apartments was Seattle’s first apartment built, owned, and occupied by Black people. It was…
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Published April 25, 2021
Frank Smith and Sadie Tipps
Frank Smith represented the opportunity for Black people in Seattle at the start of the 1900s. He and his wife Sadie built their own home,…
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Published February 27, 2021
Seattle’s Black families’ homes in 1909
A window into Seattle’s Black families’ homes, via the writings of Horace and Susie Revels Cayton, Booker T. Washington, and Harry Edwards.
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Published February 17, 2021
Rainier Grand Hotel, Seattle, start to finish
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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