Archives Treasure #3: 1874 photos of Seattle
Intersection of Commercial Street (now First Avenue South) and Main Street (now Yesler Way). The University of the Territory of Washington is in the center distance. (Photos courtesy of Washington State Archives) Ever wonder what Seattle looked like looong before skyscrapers, freeways and the Space Needle? Ever wonder what it looked like before the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 burned down much of downtown, causing the rebuilding to rely on stone, not wood? A log-strewn Elliott Bay and the Seattle…