The Great Seattle Fire was a fire that destroyed the entire central business district of Seattle, Washington, on June 6, 1889. The conflagration lasted...

The Seattle Fire Department provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. The department is...

carpentry shop started the most destructive fire in the history of Seattle. After this Great Seattle Fire, new construction was required to be of masonry...

summer of 1889. The Great Seattle Fire destroyed the entire central business district of Seattle on June 6, 1889. The Great Ellensburg Fire resulted in the...

the neighborhood were mostly wooden, and nearly all burned in the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. By the end of 1890, dozens of brick and stone buildings had...

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nothing to the victims themselves. The early Seattle era came to a stunning halt with the Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889. It burned 29 city blocks,...

Chinese from Seattle; anti-Chinese riots also occurred in Tacoma. Seattle had achieved sufficient economic success when the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 destroyed...

Insurance Company of America (SAFECO) in 1953. The mural depicts the Great Seattle Fire which occurred on June 6, 1889. Zallinger spent a long time researching...

company town and Seattle's successful avoidance of that condition. The early Seattle era came to a stunning halt with the Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889...

late 1850s, present day downtown Seattle became the main residential outskirts of the city. After the Great Seattle Fire, the business district was moved...

dating to rebuilding following the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. The fire began where the Federal Office Building (Seattle) now stands. Street level was lifted...

of the historic district's new buildings following the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. From Seattle's earliest days until the early 1880s, the corner of First...

same summer that major fires damaged Spokane, Vancouver, and Seattle, all major cities in the Washington Territory. The fire began on July 4 in the late...

San Francisco) and seventh in North America. After the Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889, Seattle began reconstruction of the city's central business district...

neighboring Bitter Lake in June 1889, after the Great Seattle Fire. These farmers had to float their goods into Seattle via the Puget Sound, because there were...

The Great Seattle Fire is caused by an overturned glue pot. July 4: The Great Ellensburg Fire destroys the city's downtown area. August 4: The Great Spokane...

shingle mill. After the Great Seattle Fire in 1889 the mills provided opportunities for those who had lost jobs in the fire, which in turn spurred the...

of land from Henry Yesler, but their efforts were cut short by the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. Nonetheless, encouraged by their ideas, the revised October...

The Great Seattle Fire of 1889 had consumed the piers as far north as Union Street along with the rest of the heart of the city. After the Great Fire, a...

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the Great Seattle Fire and served as a hotel until early in the 20th century. By the time neighboring Smith Tower was completed in 1914, the Seattle Hotel...

month after the Great Seattle Fire (June 6, 1889) gave a dramatic illustration of the limitations of the city's water supply, Seattle's citizens voted...

Northern Pacific Railway (1883) and the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway (1887), the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, and the opening of three cable...

going to temporary facilities, some of which also burned, in the Great Seattle Fire. A new brick Central School opened in 1889 at Seventh and Madison...

Y. Waldrip, an early Washingtonian who came to Seattle to work rebuilding after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 before moving south and founding the Olympia...

others came under the protection of white employers and a judge. The Great Seattle Fire of 1889 further hindered the community. Eventually, the Chinese re-established...

anymore as they were possibly lost when Smith's office burned in the Great Seattle Fire. Smith waited thirty years to publish his transcript of the speech...

Brothers Co. shipbuilders, his work as mayor to rebuild after the Great Seattle fire, and his large estate on Orcas Island, which became a resort and Moran...

photographs of Seattle with special emphasis on images depicting neighborhoods, recreational activities including baseball, the Great Seattle Fire of 1889,...