Seattle’s story can be told as a series of firsts. Developments that were groundbreaking then but, because of our city’s rapid-fire rate of change, feel quotidian decades later. The year 1904 brought Seattle’s first steel-framed skyscraper; 1971, its first Starbucks. And, in 1909, Seattle debuted its first all-brick firehouse, home to its very first motor-driven fire engines, per Historic Seattle.
Like so many of those Seattle trailblazers, Fire Station No. 25 looks a little different than it did back then. The arched windows and doors characteristic of the original building remain; the hayloft, built to accommodate horse-drawn equipment before the Seattle Fire Department transitioned to motor
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