Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H. H. Richardson

by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner and Dennis Alan Andersen

On the afternoon of 6 June 1889, a fire in a cabinet shop in downtown Seattle spread to destroy more than thirty downtown blocks covering 116 acres. Disaster soon became opportunity as Seattle's citizens turned their full energies to rebuilding: widening and regrading streets, laying new water pipes and sewer lines, promulgating a new building ordinance requiring construction in the commercial core, and creating a new professional fire department...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295982381
• ISBN13: 9780295982380
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.6" x 11.4"