English: As early as 1910, inventors and businessmen believed that a monorail would solve Seattle's downtown traffic problems. The Universal Elevated Railway Company tried to convince the city to build a monorail on Second Avenue, but the city decided to purchase a ground-level system instead.

This photo shows an artist's idea of what Seattle's monorail might look like. The drawing was made for the Universal Elevated Railway, sometime around 1921. The artist used an earlier photograph of Second Avenue.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Monorail railroads; Universal Elevated Railway Company

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The large building at right was then known as the Schoenfeld Building or the Standard Furniture Building. It is still extant 2022 as the Broadacres Building at the northwest corner of Second and Pine. At left is the Gowman Hotel (no longer extant).