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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Built in 1889, the city’s iconic flatiron has been a hotel, a shoe store, an ice cream parlor, and the backdrop of your favorite Tracey Ullman movie.

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

Coming Right Up

At least all that shaking doubles as a workout, right?

Bar Guide

Our favorite dives, die-hards, and cozy hangs, by neighborhood.

Drinking Guide

Served straight up: our favorite places to kick back, splash out, and order just one more round.

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

Frozen Assets

How Corrie Strandjord and Eric Anderson lucked into the pizza biz.