File:Northeast corner of 3rd Ave and Madison St showing the demolished Third Avenue Theater during street regrade, Seattle (SEATTLE 3852).jpg

English: Written on verso: N.E. Cor 3rd & Madison. Site of Old 3rd Ave Theatre. Catholic Church Church on extreme left (see 5th & Spring). Lincoln Hotel on right. 1st Presbyterian Church Center Mch 1909.

PH Coll 1026.16

• Subjects (LCTGM): Buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Demolition--Washington (State)--Seattle
• Subjects (LCSH): Denny Regrade (Seattle, Wash.)

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  Seattle First Presbyterian Church can be seen at right in this 1904 picture.
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Despite the title given by the University of Washington Libraries, the regrade shown had nothing to do with the Denny Regrade, which was at least six blocks away. Nearly all of Downtown Seattle's streets were significantly regraded at one time or another. Also, despite what they say, that is certainly Seattle First Presbyterian Church, built 1894 at left at the northwest corner of 4th & Spring (compare File:The Lincoln Hotel, northwest corner of Madison St and 4th Ave, Seattle (CURTIS 209).jpeg, where the church can be seen at right). By the time of this photo, it would already have been superseded by their 1907 church, but was apparently still standing.

Given that angle there is no way the remaining building in the middle is at Fifth & Spring, nor does it appear to be a church. It is presumably a building called "The Wood," which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth and Spring. See 1905 Baist map of Seattle, Plate 3 and (for context, since the plates divide at Fourth Avenue) Plate 2).