The district had , in this period , started a number of other schools , including the even more imposing Denny School on Battery Street between 5th and 6th Avenues in Belltown , opened 1884 . Described as " an architectural jewel ... the finest schoolhouse on the West Coast , " it was demolished in 1928 as part of the Denny Regrade project . When the Central School burned in 1888 , its high school and first grade classes were parcelled out to the Denny School , other classes to the former downtown building of the university , with other classes going to temporary facilities , some of which also burned , in the Great Seattle Fire
Great Seattle Fire
Great Seattle Fire
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