File:Jackson Street looking east from waterfront, Seattle, circa 1892 (MOHAI 9524).jpg

The topography of Seattle neighborhood now called the International District (ID) was altered drastically during the Jackson Street regrade from 1907-1909. 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

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