Ups And Downs

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #244

Take a look at this building in Seattle:

It looks pretty ordinary, like a lot of urban building from the first half of the 1900s. Which is what it is; one source actually says it’s from the 1890s.

But part of it is from the 1910s, around the time a major project known as the Jackson Street regrade began. This building happens to actually be on Jackson Str…