03/13/2007

Historylink.org

"Seattle voters had authorized a Municipal Plans Commission on March 8, 1910. The Commission retained Virgil G. Bogue, a respected harbor planner and civil engineer and colleague of the Olmsted Brothers, to prepare a detailed plan to guide Seattle's future development. He submitted his proposal on August 24, 1911 -- it described an ambitious set of improvements including a giant train station on the south shore of Lake Union, a Civic Center complex of government buildings in the recently leveled Denny Regrade, a rail transit line linking Seattle and Kirkland via a tunnel beneath Lake Washington, and possible acquisition of Mercer Island as a city park."