Stop a man downtown Seattle in 1897, and you could likely place him in one of two categories: off to seek his fortune in the Yukon, or finding it right here in town.
Perry Polson landed in the latter camp. In 1896, the farmer-turned-businessman moved his family and his farm equipment company from La Conner to Seattle—then a boomtown of about 50,000. A year later, nearly the same number of prospectors flooded the city in need of the very picks and shovels he carried in spades. Polson had struck gold.
When he saw the view from the property atop Queen Anne—acquired for $5,500 less than
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