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Woodson Apartments, Seattle, ca. 1910
Title
Woodson
Apartments
,
Seattle
,
ca.
1910
Photographer
Unknown
Date
ca. 1910
Caption
The
Woodson
Apartments
,
located
at
1820
24th
Avenue
in
Seattle
, were
built
by
Zacharias
and
Irene
Woodson
in
1908.
It
was the
first
apartment
building
in the
city
for
African
American
tenants.
The
Woodsons
were
anticipating
an
increased
demand
for
housing
due
to the
1909
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
Exposition.
During
the
fair
, the
Woodsons
were the
proprietors
of
both
these
apartments
and
another
rooming
house.
They
stayed
in the
business
until
the
1930s.
The
building
is
known
today
as the
Cascade
View
Apartments.
Notes
Handwritten
on
image:
Woodson
Apt.
24
ave.
Caption
information
source:
BHS
records.
Subjects
Apartment houses--Washington (State)--Seattle
African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle
Location
United
States--Washington
(State)--Seattle
Digital Collection
Black
Heritage
Society
Collection
Image Number
2001.17.2.06
Ordering Information
To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions, contact: TheBoard@blackheritagewa.org. Please cite the Image Number.
Repository
The Black Heritage Society of Washington State, Inc.
Physical Description
1
photographic
print
mounted
on
cardboard:
b&w;
6
3/4
x
8
1/2
in.
Type
Image
Digital Reproduction Information
Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3.
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