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 November 9, 2021
Lumber camp songs at Seattle’s first Cub Scout camps
This article explores the lumber camp songs and vaudeville tunes that were likely sung at Blue Ox Camp from 1930-1932, and secondarily Camp Do Your…
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Published October 31, 2021
Blue Ox Camp, Seattle’s Paul Bunyan camp
Cub Scouts in Seattle had America’s very first Cub Scout camp. It was a Paul Bunyan camp, called Blue Ox camp, open from 1930 to…
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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 March 23, 2021
Ed Hagen pulled one over on you
Ed Hagen got away with the greatest crime: stealing history. Casual reading of Prohibition-era newspapers has led Seattle historians to narrowly remember him as the…
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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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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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