Caption on image: "Seattle from Denny Hotel"  From 2nd Ave. between Stewart St. and Virginia St., shows the Arlington Hotel, 1215 1st Ave. at University St. Also known as Bay Building, Gilmore and Kirkman's Block.
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Cities &amp; towns--Washington (State)--Seattle; Harbors--Washington (State)--Seattle</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): Seattle (Wash.); Bay Building (Seattle, Wash.)</li></ul>
The Denny (later Washington) Hotel stood atop Denny Hill at what would now be Third and Stewart. A regrade in the 1900s dropped the level of the land here about 100 feet (32 meters).
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Frank_La_Roche" class="extiw" title="w:en:Frank La Roche"><span title="American photographer, 1853-1934">Frank La Roche</span></a>
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circa 1891 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1891-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://content.lib.washington.edu/larocheweb/index.html">Frank La Roche Photographs</a>