Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909 (MOHAI 8625)

This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen near a house and downhill from the Washington Hotel.
Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912. He also photographed the Alaska Gold Rush from 1891 to 1908, the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909, an other subjects in California, Utah, Texas, and Colorado.
Caption on image: Washington-Hotel-Panorama View of 3rd Ave Regrade - 1909
Subjects (LCTGM): Denny Regrade (Seattle, Wash.); Grading (Earthwork)--Washington (State)--Seattle; Hotels--Washington (State)--Seattle