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 November 1, 2019
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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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Published September 6, 2019
Renaming Seattle’s Green Lake streets
This is a lookup table of Green Lake neighborhood of Seattle street names from the 1880s and 1890s together with their names today. For easy…
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Published August 20, 2019
Brygger Place: Ballard Streets revisited
This is a story about a street in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, Brygger Place. The data on Ballard A few years ago I published a table…
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Published July 15, 2019
Renaming streets of Seattle’s Fremont to the U District
Below is a lookup table for name changes from the 1870s to the present day in neighborhoods north of Lake Union in Seattle: Brooklyn (west…
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Published March 1, 2019
Was Seattle named Duwamps?
There is no evidence that Seattle’s founders first named the city Duwamps. If it was named Duwamps though, Arthur Denny was responsible. What I’m talking…
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Published February 12, 2019
Jennie Lombard the first TOPS principal
Recently I had the opportunity to lead a learning activity at an elementary school in my area of Seattle, TOPS (The Option Program at Seward).…
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Published February 2, 2019
Mayer Brothers in the Klondike
For a half century, Mayer Brothers was the most important manufacturing jeweler in Seattle. But it all started with the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897.…
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