Metropolitan Tract

The Cobb Building, 1301–1309 Fourth Avenue, is the only remaining building whose design conforms to the original Howells & Stokes plan for the Metropolitan Tract.
A 1915 advertisement welcoming vistors to what was then known as the "University Tract", but already managed by the Metropolitan Building Company.
Entryway of Fifth Avenue Theater, in the Metropolitan Tract.
Lobby of the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, in the Metropolitan Tract.

The Metropolitan Tract is an area of land in downtown Seattle owned by the University of Washington.[1] Originally covering 10 acres (40,000 m2), the 1962 purchase of land for a garage for the Olympic Hotel[2] expanded the plot to 11 acres (45,000 m2). The Metropolitan Tract is primarily located in a rectangle formed by Seneca St., Third Ave., Union St., and Sixth Ave.[3]

  1. ^ History of the Metropolitan Tract, University of Washington Real Estate Office. Accessed online 26 September 2007.
  2. ^ Cobb Building, Seattle, A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary, National Park Service. Accessed 24 September 2007.
  3. ^ Map of the Metropolitan Tract, University of Washington Real Estate Office. Accessed online 17 January 2012.