PCAD - Western Mill Company, Lumber Mill, South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - industrial buildings - factories; built works _ industrial buildings - processing plant

Exterior view of the Western Mill Company Factory, Seattle, c. 1891; from the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division, Frank La Roche Photograph Collection

Exterior view of the Western Mill Company Factory, with streetcar riding by, Seattle, c. 1891; from the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division, Frank La Roche Photograph Collection

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Mercer Street and Terry Avenue
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA 98109

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Northeast corner of Mercer Street and Bismarck Street, later known as Terry Avenue.

Lumberman David T. Denny (1832-1903) erected this lumber mill in 1882; to facilitate the transportation of logs to his mill (by floating them), he dug an early canal connecting Lake Union to Lake Washington, before the Montlake Cut of the 1910s.

In 1890, the Western Mill Company had its main operations on the northeast corner of Mercer Street and Bismarck Street (renamed Terry Avenue).

PCAD id: 14496

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Western Mill Company, Lumber Mill, South Lake Union, Seattle, WA (1882)

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