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| Title | James St. between 4th and 5th Avenues looking south during the Denny Hill regrade, Seattle, March 1909 |
| Photographer | Parker, Curtiss |
| Date | 1909 |
| Notes | On verso of image: Mch 1909. James St. between 4th and 5th taken from 4th Ave. looking south. City Hall on extreme right. Court House (Profanity Hill) tower on left. ""The Mansfield"" still standing 1957. Photo by Curtiss Parker.
PH Coll 1026.18 |
| 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) | Courthouses--Washington (State)--Seattle; Cupolas--Washington (State)--Seattle; City & town halls--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Subjects (LCSH) | James Street (Seattle, Wash.); Fourth Avenue (Seattle, Wash.); Dwellings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Apartment houses--Washington (State)--Seattle; Street-railroads--Washington (State)--Seattle; Wagons--Washington (State)--Seattle; Grading (Earthwork)--Washington (State)--Seattle; Central business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Seattle Photograph Collection
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| Order Number | SEA0863
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| 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 photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2000. |
