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King Street Station and train tracks from the air, Seattle, n.d.
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| Title | King Street Station and train tracks from the air, Seattle, n.d. |
| Photographer | Hupy, Art
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| Date | n.d. |
| Historical Background | King Street Station was built between 1904 and 1906. The station supported both the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads. Iit was fronted by an extended projecting awning covering passengers and the service crew. Behind this, however, rose an impressive structure, designed by Charles Reed and Allen Stem, architects of New York's Grand Central Station. The building's style, sometimes called "Railroad Italianate" incorporated a number of classical details.
Its most outstanding feature was a tall tower, or campanile, on which a prominent clock faced a quickly evolving Seattle. The station's operations were bound to the development of the town, much like a heart pumping life, in the form of new residents and freight, into the growing city. From the expansive drive fronting King Street, horse drawn carriages -- eventually replaced by motor cars -- wisked newcomers away to local hotels and boarding houses.
The waiting areas of this new King Street Station were focal points of the building. The interior was grand, with coffered ceilings and other highly ornate details. Although still compartmentalized like the earlier stations, these spaces suggested that passengers and their experience was extremely important to the railroad. Rather than a place for loading and unloading cargo, this new station was a distinctive civic portal through which visitors and newcomers passed into a great Western city. [Source: Seattle/King County HistoryLink, http://www.historylink.org/] |
| Notes | PH Coll 458.6248-10 |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Railroad stations--Washington (State)--Seattle--Aerial views
Railroad tracks--Washington (State)--Seattle--Aerial views
Automobiles--Washington (State)--Seattle--Aerial views
Streets--Washington (State)--Seattle--Aerial views
Bridges--Washington (State)--Seattle--Aerial views
Business enterprises--Washington (State)--Seattle--Aerial views
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| Subjects (LCSH) | King Street Station (Seattle, Wash.)
Fourth Avenue South (Seattle, Wash.)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Modern Photographers Collection
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| Order Number | MPH192 |
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| Negative Number | Hupy 6248-10 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Art Hupy Photograph Collection |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | b&w ; 2 x 2 inches |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2004. |
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