The topography of Seattle neighborhood now called the Chinatown - International District (CID) was altered drastically during the Jackson Street regrade from 1907 to 1909. About fifty-six city blocks were reshaped by the regrade, twenty-nine of them excavated and twenty-seven raised above the tide flats. On Jackson, dirt was mostly removed to lower the street nearly 90 feet at 9th Avenue.
This view from before the regrade looks south east over the tide flats up Jackson Street. The rail car on the tracks at the bottom of the frame is a Union Pacific refrigerated car. The large building with the Gothic spire is the original building of Holy Names Academy, built along the east side of Seventh Avenue in 1884, later razed by the regrade.
Signs in image: Charles Hotel; Webb & Co., Inc. Wholesale Grocers; Seattle Brass Foundry
Caption information source: https://pauldorpat.com/2010/03/27/jackson-st-regrade-raising-the-neighborhood
ID Number: SHS469
Date: Circa 1892
Physical Description: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: b&w ; 4.75 x 8.75 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
