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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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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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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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130-year-old Central District pear tree named "Best in City" by Seattle Heritage Tree Program

I read in the April issue of The Valley View that a 130-year-old pear tree at the corner of E. Cherry Street and 27th Avenue has been named "Best...
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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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Architectural theft at historic Carmack House in Squire Park

The Carmack House, located next to Swedish Medical Center's Cherry Hill (formerly Providence) campus at 1522 E. Jefferson Street in Seattle's Squire...
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