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Title	Civic auditorium from 500 block in alley west of 2nd Ave. No.
Identifier	spl_wl_sec_00201
Description	Future site of the Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World’s Fair). In 1956, the City of Seattle’s Civic Center Advisory Committee selected land surrounding the existing Civic Auditorium at the foot of Queen Anne Hill for the site of the Century 21 Exposition and a future Civic Center for the city. In 1957, the city acquired the property through condemnation. With a few exceptions, including the Civic Auditorium (which was transformed into the Opera House) and the National Guard Armory (which became the Food Circus), most existing buildings were demolished. This set of photos documents the site before demolition began. On the Civic Auditorium, completed in 1928: “The funding for a future Civic Auditorium began with a bequest to Seattle by Pioneer Square saloonkeeper James Osborne, who died in 1881. He left $20,000 to the city government for a ‘civic hall,’ if matched with other funds. The gift was deposited in trust and grew to $109,000, when Seattle allocated another $900,000 to build a Civic Auditorium in 1925. Local wags joked that it was ‘the house that suds built.’ Seattle’s first woman mayor, Bertha K. Landes (1868-1943), was a major booster of the project. The city selected a site nearly atop the original ‘Potlatch Meadows’ homestead of pioneers David and Louisa Boren. Louisa was known as the Sweetbriar Bride for the roses she cultivated on the future site of Seattle Center. The new reinforced-concrete auditorium was designed by Seattle architects James Hansen Schack, Arrigo M. Young, and David J. Myers, who also created the nearby Civic Arena and Veteran’s Hall.” (Walt Crowley, "Seattle Center opens historic Civic Center and Opera House time capsule on January 17, 2002." HistoryLink.org, http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3673 )
Subjects (LCSH)	Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.) Food Circus (Century 21 Exposition, 1962, Seattle, Wash.) Center House (Seattle, Wash.) Exhibition buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle Exhibitions--Washington (State)--Seattle Lenggenhager, Werner Food courts--Washington (State)--Seattle Armories--Washington (State)--Seattle Alleys--Washington (State)--Seattle Dwellings--Washington (State)--Seattle Housing, Single family--Washington (State)--Seattle Wrecking--Washington (State)--Seattle Second Avenue (Seattle, Wash.) Schack, Young & Myers
Subject	Food Circus
Photographer	Lenggenhager, Werner
Architect	Schack, Young & Myers
Date	1957-10
Period	Before the Fair
Notes	Title taken from handwritten caption on verso. Date stamped on verso.
Folder	Seattle Center Before Century 21
Measurements	25.84 x 20.82 cm
Digitization Specifications	Master image scanned on Epson 10000 XL flatbed at 600 ppi, 24 bit color, saved as TIFF file. Photoshop used to reduce access image to 600 pixels on long edge; master image file size: 90,073,410 bytes.
File Format	image/jp2
Collection	Century 21 Digital Collection
Contributing Institution	The Seattle Public Library
Rights Management	For information about rights and reproduction, visit http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/rights
Type (DCMI)	image
Item Type	Photographs
Source	Original: 8 x10 b/w photographic print
Date created	2011-07-30