The Museum of History & Industry is a history museum in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the largest private heritage organization in Washington state, ma
The MOHAI building (Naval Reserve Armory) at Lake Union Park, pictured in 2015
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The "Changes" section of MOHAI's True Northwest exhibit
The Boeing B-1 on display in the museum's Grand Atrium, with the Rainier Brewing Company logo sign behind.
The Great Seattle Fire was a fire that destroyed the entire central business district of Seattle, Washington, on June 6, 1889. The conflagration lasted for less than a day, burning through the afterno
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…history and culture. The core exhibit also includes the Great Fire Theatre, a "Gilbert and Sullivan-style opera" that involves artifacts from the 1889 Great Seattle Fire singing the story of the event over a film of historic images, and the Joshua Green Foundation Theater which plays a 7-minute film about Seattle culture…
Aftermath of the fire, vicinity of Pioneer Square
Looking west on Mill Street (today's Yesler Way) across Front Street (today's First Avenue) June 5, 1889, one day before this district burned. Korn block on left; Yesler-Leary Building, center; Occidental Hotel, right.
Looking south on Front St. from Spring St. about one-half hour after the fire started
Aftermath of Seattle fire of June 6, 1889, looking east at the ruins of the Occidental Hotel at corner of James St. and Yesler Way