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| Title | Seattle City Hall with Frye Hotel construction at 223 Yesler Way in the background, March 1909 |
| Photographer | Parker, Curtiss |
| Date | 1909 |
| Notes | On verso of image: Old City Hall, from the East, Frye Hotel in background, March 1909
Filed in Seattle--Government Buildings
PH Coll 1026.19 |
| Historical Notes | The Denny Hill regrade was a project that took many years and and $2.25 million dollars to complete. The first phase (1898-1899) leveled 1st Avenue from Pine Street to Denny Way. The second phase, during which the photographs in this collection were taken, regraded the area from 2nd to 5th Avenues between Pike and Cedar Streets. It took 11 years for this phase to be completed. In this phase, more than five million cubic yards of dirt were sluiced into Elliott Bay. The avenues and streets were lowered to a gradient no more than 5%, and 4th and 5th Avenues were widened. The Denny Hill regrade was not fully completed until the 1930s, when the last embankment along 5th Avenue was removed. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Building construction--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Frye Hotel (Seattle, Wash.); Hotels--Washington (State)--Seattle; Yesler Way (Seattle, Wash.); Pioneer Square-Skid Road Historic Districts (Seattle, Wash.); Central business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Seattle Photograph Collection
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| Order Number | SEA1353
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| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info
Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Curtis Parker Photographs of the Denny Regrade. PH Coll 1026 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photograph at 600 dpi, saved in TIFF format, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2009 |
