This view from First Hill looking west and north toward Elliott Bay was taken before the Great Seattle Fire in 1889. The large white building in the center of the frame is the Central School, built in 1883 at Sixth Avenue and Madison Street, and destroyed in an 1888 fire; just behind and to the right of Central School is the tower of Providence Hospital, built in 1877 at Fifth Avenue and Madison Street. Also visible are the Joseph McNaught home at 603 Marion Street; Denny Hill after having been clear-cut logged; the Territorial University (University of Washington) building; and Madison Street before the Lake Washington Cable Railway trolley line was built in 1887.

Caption information source: Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, 1862-2000, by Nile Thompson and Carolyn J. Marr.
Caption information source: Seattle’s streetcar history, The Seattle Times, December 10, 2007.