A man standing in the lumberyard of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing. 1939
Denny Regrade, 1909 - Seattle, WA
The Denny Regrade project was the removal of Denny Hill which ran east from First Avenue between Pike Street and Denny Way. From 1902 to 1911, the hill was sluiced into Elliott Bay by pumping water from Lake Union using hydraulic mining techniques, in a series of regrades along Pike and Pine Streets, Second Avenue, and the massive Denny Regrade No. 1 which regraded everything remaining between Fifth Avenue and the waterfront.