Besides individual landmarks , Seattle has eight historic districts : Ballard Avenue , Columbia City , Fort Lawton , Harvard-Belmont , the International District , Pike Place Market , Pioneer Square , and Sand Point . Pioneer Square is a neighborhood dating back to Seattle 's earliest years and contains many buildings from shortly after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 ; the adjacent International District is the historic center of Seattle 's Asian and Pacific Islander community , with many buildings dating from 1905-1910 after the neighborhood was regraded ; Pike Place Market is a public market founded in 1907 and including some buildings older than that ; Fort Lawton ( in Discovery Park ) and Sand Point ( in Magnuson Park ) are the sites of former military facilities ; Ballard Avenue and the Columbia City district were the urban centers of separate cities that Seattle annexed as it grew ; the Harvard-Belmont district includes some of Seattle 's most prestigious residential buildings
Great Seattle Fire
Great Seattle Fire
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