On verso of image: Looking N. on Third Ave. from between Pike and Pine, ca. 1909
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<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Horse teams--Washington (State)--Seattle; Street railroad tracks--Washington (State)--Seattle; Street lights--Washington (State)--Seattle; People--Washington (State)--Seattle</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): Third Avenue (Seattle, Wash.); Grading (Earthwork)--Washington (State)--Seattle; Wagons--Washington (State)--Seattle; Theaters--Washington (State)--Seattle; Central business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle</li></ul><hr>
Clearly, this shows a different building than the well-known <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Third_Avenue_Theatre" title="Category:Third Avenue Theatre">Third Avenue Theatre</a> that stood roughly 20 years at Third and Madison. In fact, this was the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:First_Methodist_Protestant_Church_of_Seattle_(1890)" title="Category:First Methodist Protestant Church of Seattle (1890)">First Methodist Protestant Church of Seattle</a>, built 1890 and demolished in 1913. In 1907, the congregation had moved to a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:First_Methodist_Protestant_Church_of_Seattle" title="Category:First Methodist Protestant Church of Seattle">new church on Capitol Hill</a>.
Curtiss Parker
circa 1909 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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