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Seattle native Benjamin Lukoff is a freelance writer and editor. He's been interested in local history since the age of six, when his father bought him 'Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle' at the MOHAI gift shop.

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Change coming to the Ave: Cavalier Building to be demolished, Rite Aid to close

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Two mainstays of the University District will soon be no more. [Originally posted 10/22/09] In May, I wrote about the University of...
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Friends of Seattle's Olmsted Parks interpretive panel stolen from Volunteer Park water tower

The Capitol Hill Times is reporting (as of this writing, in print only) the theft, on June 24, of "an...interpretive panel showing the...
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Historic Seattle buys Squire Park's famed Washington Hall

Historic Seattle — "the only nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the preservation of Seattle and King County's architectural...
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Belltown's 1908 Bon Marché stables (Compton Building) likely to face demolition

I see at the Seattle PostGlobe that the former Bon Marché stables at 2315 Western Avenue will likely come down, even though they are now a city...
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P-I globe tops Washington Trust for Historic Preservation's Most Endangered Historic Properties list

The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation released its 2009 list of Most Endangered Historic Properties today. Topping the list is the P-I Globe,...
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Knute Berger on Seattle's civic dementia

On May 20, 2009, Knute Berger gave the keynote speech at Historic Seattle's 35th anniversary and awards banquet. The full text is available both on...
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International District's NP Hotel makes Language Log linguistics blog

The International District's historic NP Hotel building made the Language Log blog recently — not because they're particularly interested in the...
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Did Seattle mayor Greg Nickels sink the schooner Wawona? Joe Follansbee thinks so

As noted the other day, Seattle's historic schooner Wawona will soon be no more, and left South Lake Union for good yesterday.Today on Crosscut.com,...
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RIP schooner Wawona, 1897-2009

It's being reported that the schooner Wawona, which carried lumber to California until 1914 and thereafter fished cod in the Bering Sea until 1947,...
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Was George Carmack a fraud?

Knute Berger has a piece today on Crosscut.com about George Washington Carmack, who, the story goes, set off the Klondike Gold Rush. He's been in the...
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