Woodson Rooming House, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses - apartment houses

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: [unspecified]

1530 5th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101-1604
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Tax Parcel No. 982870-2660; Legal Description: Yesler's H. L. Second Addition Supplemental, Blk. 51, Lot 6

In 1909, this building at 1530 Fifth Avenue was one of two rooming houses operated by Zacharias and Irene Woodson (the other at 1820 24th Avenue), early African-American settlers in Seattle. The couple had moved to the city by 1897; in 1899, Zacharias worked as a bootblack. The Woodson rooming houses catered to visitors of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

PCAD id: 6288

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