229-235 Broadway East was built as the Wilshire Building, and is known today officially as the Lota Building. Until recently it was owned by long-time…
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Published January 18, 2022
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Published January 7, 2022
Pike/Pine non-white residents in 1910 and 1920
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 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 June 5, 2014
Roanoke Park and Seattle’s Broadway Streetcar
This history of streetcar service into the northern reaches of Seattle’s Capitol Hill was about three years in the making. I pieced it together through…
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