Property Watch: Treehouse Style in West Seattle
This West Seattle home has pieces of Seattle historyâincluding the Kingdomeâand killer views built right in.
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Sarah Anne Lloyd
5/5/2021 at 9:00am
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This West Seattle hillside home looks plain on the outside, but it holds all sorts of secrets. The structure and design are both reminiscent of a treehouse: Salvaged fir poles from a marine project hold up all three stories, and it has no traditional foundation other than poured concrete. Around them, a playful floor plan makes use of more reclaimed materials from key parts of Seattleâs history.
The airy third story is the centerpiece of the home, with a vaulted exposed-beam ceiling that holds a fun piece of history: The largest beams were originally from the construction of the Kingdome, where they were used as framing for pouring concrete.
March 05, 2021
Screen grabs from CCTV footage showing the moment before Mr Sito Rong Feng entered his kitchen and seconds later when the sliding glass door shattered (above). Glass was scattered across the living room.
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A mere four seconds was the difference between Mr Sito Rong Feng walking unscathed into his kitchen and being hit by a sliding glass door as it shattered into smithereens.
When the wedding photographer had the close shave last month, his first thought was the safety of his 15-month-old twin sons who were playing in a playpen in the living room of the family s Punggol East flat.
The early years of the Seattle P-I: Seattle s oldest newspaper
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The Denny Party landed in Seattle just 12 years before the publication that would later become the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published its first edition.
That paper was the Seattle Gazette, which printed its first edition on Dec. 10, 1863 - Seattle s first newspaper.
Publisher J.R. Watson, who was born in Ohio and moved west during the gold rush, became the owner of Olympia s Overland Press after its previous owner was shot to death. That same year, Henry Yesler, who opened the city s first steam-powered sawmill about a decade prior, invited him to live in Seattle rent-free . if he established a newspaper for the city.