Yesler Way between 6th Ave. and 7th Ave.
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Power plants--Washington (State)--Seattle</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): Seattle City Light</li></ul><hr>
The 1912 Baist map of Seattle shows this as "City Light Plant" (just west of Seventh Avenue on Yesler Way; the Dorpat and Department of Neighborhoods pages cited here both also cite for this location). According to Paul Dorpat (<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://pauldorpat.com/2011/01/08/seattle-now-then-seattle-city-light/">https://pauldorpat.com/2011/01/08/seattle-now-then-seattle-city-light/</a>), it was the "Yesler Way Substation". According to the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods (<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://web6.seattle.gov/DPD/HistoricalSite/QueryResult.aspx?ID=1849995976">https://web6.seattle.gov/DPD/HistoricalSite/QueryResult.aspx?ID=1849995976</a>), it was the original receiving substation in the City Light system, built in 1904-05 and receiving power from the Cedar Falls [hydroelectric] Plant. Superseded by more modern substations, it was retired from that function in 1951. It was retrofitted to function instead as the power dispatching headquarters for City Light's entire electrical distribution system, a role which it served from 1952 until it was demolished in summer 1963 to make way for Interstate 5.
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1908<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1908-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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