Seattle Regrade Photograph Collection
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. Seattle’s massive effort to regrade and flatten much of the city’s hilly landscape is documented in this 1905-1908 photo album. Explore our map to see the modern-day photo locations.
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West Seattle Bridge entrance ramps at SW Spokane St. and SW Avalon Way, May 30, 1968
View of West Seattle High-Rise Bridge (high bridge), which opened in 1984, and the Spokane Street Swing Bridge (low bridge), which opened in 1991 over the Duwamish River.
Identifier: spl_dor_00006
Date: 1968-05-30
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Queen Anne from West Seattle, August 27, 1976
Taken from West Seattle, this image shows Queen Anne with the Space Needle visible, and part of downtown Seattle in the distance across Elliott Bay.
Identifier: spl_dor_00003
Date: 1976-08-27
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Portage Bay, Montlake with Laurelhurst in distance, May 15, 1925
Montlake Bridge and Portage Bay from Shelby Street, May 15, 1925 cropped from original photograph taken by photographer Asahel Curtis.
Identifier: spl_dor_00010
Date: 1925-05-15
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2nd Ave. north from near Columbia St., July 26, 1981
Photograph shows the Savoy Hotel Building, Marion Building, and Melhorn Building.
Identifier: spl_dor_00034
Date: 1981-07-26
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Building at Occidental Ave. S. and S. Washington St., September 25, 1980
Northwest corner of Occidental Ave. S. and S. Washington St. shows the building previously known as the four-story Interurban Hotel until 1949 when it was damaged by an earthquake and partially collapsed. The Del Mar Building can be seen on the far left.
Identifier: spl_dor_00027
Date: 1980-09-25
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Sunrise and city from Kerry Park, December 18, 1975
View of Seattle showing the Space Needle and Mt. Rainier in the distance.
Identifier: spl_dor_00046
Date: 1975-12-18
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Denny Hall, University of Washington, August 1996
Exterior view of Denny Hall on the University of Washington campus.
Identifier: spl_dor_00043
Date: 1996-08
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Seattle floating bridge, August 28, 1963
This photograph was taken on the opening day of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, later the SR 520 bridge, from the west side looking east across Lake Washington towards Medina.
Identifier: spl_dor_00052
Date: 1963-08-28
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Row of colorful houses at 92nd Ave. N. and College Way N., March 31, 1997
Photograph shows a row of homes in the Northgate neighborhood, all built in the 1980s. This image was used in the March 24, 2012 Now & Then column "Row Houses on 5th." (https://pauldorpat.com/2012/03/24/seattle-now-then-row-houses-on-5th/) The caption provided was "A modern sort of row - this one near North Seattle Community College (on the byway - rather than the freeway - to Costco.)"
Identifier: spl_dor_00041
Date: 1997-03-31
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Aerial view of Bellevue, WA, circa 1990s
Aerial view of Bellevue looking west and slightly north along NE 4th Ave. towards Lake Washington and Seattle. Bellevue Square (first opened in 1946 as Bellevue Shopping Square, and expanded in the 1980s), One Bellevue Center (constructed 1982-1983), the Hyatt Regency hotel (built 1989), Key Bank Building (built 1971), and other buildings can be seen.
Identifier: spl_dor_00021
Date: 1990
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