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Page 111 of brochure Seattle and the Orient (1900). This page consists of a text plus a set of photos captioned collectively as "A few school houses of Seattle" and respectively (top to bottom) as:

  • "Denny School". This school on Battery Street between 5th & 6th Avenues in Belltown opened 1884, but was demolished in 1928 as part of the Denny Regrade project. See Denny on the site of Seattle public schools.
  • "Queen Anne School". This 1890 school between Gaylor (now Galer) and Lee Streets and between Fifth Avenue West and Sixth Avenue West was later known as the West Queen Anne School. The building was later expanded. It survives as a condominium apartment building, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. See West Queen Anne on the site of Seattle public schools.
  • "B.F. Day School". This 1892 building (expanded 1901, extensively rehabilitated 1991) at 3921 Linden Ave N in Fremont survives as a public school. B.F. Day School home page
  • "Mercer School". This building was at Fourth Avenue N and Valley Street near the base of Queen Anne Hill. Opened in 1890, closed and demolished in 1948, the property is now the site of the Seattle Public Schools administration building. See Mercer on the site of Seattle public schools.
  • "Cascade School". This school, opened in 1895, closed in 1949 and demolished in 1955, stood at Pontius and E Thomas in the Cascade neighborhood. Its playfield is now the Cascade Playground. See Cascade on the site of Seattle public schools.
  • "Rainier School". This school at 23rd Avenue S. & S. King Street opened in 1891, closed as elementary school in 1940, Reopened as unit of Edison Technical School in 1943, and finally closed and was demolished in 1943.
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p. 111 of Seattle and the Orient (more properly, Seattle …and the… Orient), a 1900 "souvenir" pamphlet edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen and published by The Times Printing Company (that is, the Seattle Times).

Scanned at 300 dpi; images cleaned up using Picture Publisher's "remove pattern" feature.
Author Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen. The photos are uncredited.
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