Architecture & Design

Know Your Place

The Livingston Baker Building Has Tales to Tell

The home of the Virginia Inn and Le Pichet has a few skeletons in its closets and ghosts in its walls.

12/23/2025 By Meg van Huygen

Know Your Place

Pioneer Square’s Historic Cadillac Hotel Is Also Its Tiniest National Park

This working-class hotel is now a museum—and one of four units that make up the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Alaska.

10/06/2025 By Meg van Huygen

Know Your Place

You Can Trace a Century of Seattle History Through the Henry Art Gallery

A railroad tycoon with a fondness for landscape paintings built Washington’s first public art museum in 1927.

05/13/2025 By Meg van Huygen

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Historic Kerry Hall Was Worth Saving

Part of Cornish College of the Arts until last month, the century-old building will return to its original purpose as a theater and arts space.

02/10/2025 By Meg van Huygen

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Renton Is Home to a Secret Architectural Marvel

This midcentury library is literally a bridge over the Cedar River.

11/20/2024 By Meg van Huygen

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The Once-Decrepit Saint Edward Seminary Now Lives the Lush Hotel Life

In Kenmore’s St. Edward State Park, this Romanesque Revival school has shed its liturgical vestments and dedicated itself to luxury.

09/09/2024 By Meg van Huygen

Know Your Place

The Many Lives of the Eitel Building

Now a chic downtown hotel, it debuted as one of the city’s first high-rise office buildings.

07/31/2024 By Meg van Huygen

Habitat

Move Over, Neutral Midcentury Remodels

For an Edmonds couple renovating their forever home, bolder is better.

01/20/2023 By Zoe Sayler

Habitat

Cuniform Interiors Offers Vision and Revision for the Home

When local wardrobe curator Colton Dixon Winger expanded into home design services, a midcentury West Seattle bungalow offered a chance to make old pieces new again.

10/13/2022 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Ben Lindbloom

So Handy

Niche Home Services You Never Knew You Needed

From literal poop scooping to energetic space clearing.

09/02/2022 By Ann Karneus

Habitat

Begone, Bad '90s Remodel

Built without a foyer, this Capitol Hill Craftsman is now flush with cabinets that hide the trappings of modern life.

08/26/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Habitat

Dad, Are You Zooming in My Treehouse?

In Seattle, the backyard treehouse made a pandemic-driven comeback. But now parents want to hang, too.

06/09/2022 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Will Austin

Feature

Let This Be the Last Time

Fire took everything they owned. When Ijeoma Oluo and Gabriel Teodros rebuilt, they filled their new home with memories and meaning right from the start.

04/13/2022 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Ellie Lillstrom