12. East on S Jackson Street
Strolling east on Jackson takes you past the Fisher Building, built in 1900 and remodeled with an Art Deco facade in 1928. The vista south at S Occidental was once filled by the Kingdome, built in 1976 for football, baseball, and other indoor entertainments. It was imploded in 2000 to make room for Paul Allen's new Seahawk's Stadium. A new exhibition center and the Seattle Mariner's new home, Safeco Field, stand farther south along Occidental.
This entire area was once a vast tide flat. It was later filled for new development and railyards. A short walk east will lead you to the King Street Station, designed for the Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railroad and now terminus for Amtrak. The building and its campanile were completed in 1906 and designed by Charles A. Reed and Allen H. Stem, famed for New York City's Central Station.
The slightly younger Union Station stands a block east. It was built for the Oregon & Washington Railroad, a unit of Union Pacific, and the Milwaukee Road in 1911. The building and its vaulted Great Hall were designed by Daniel J. Patterson and remodeled in 1999 as the new home of the regional Sound Transit system.
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