Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board

Some designated Seattle Landmarks. Top to bottom and left to right:
1. Space Needle
2. St. Spiridon Russian Orthodox Cathedral
3. Volunteer Park Conservatory
4. Georgetown PowerPlant Museum (interior view of turbine hall)
5. 1409 East Prospect Street, immediately across the street from the south entrance to Volunteer Park
6. The P-I Globe

The City of Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board is responsible for designating and preserving structures of historical importance in Seattle, Washington. The board recommends actions to the Seattle City Council, which fashions these into city ordinances with the force of law. The board is part of the city's Department of Neighborhoods.[1]

The board consists of eleven members appointed by the mayor and approved by the city council. By its establishing ordinance, the board must include at least two architects, two historians, one member of the City Planning Commission, one structural engineer, and one person each representing the fields of finance and real estate management.[2] As of 2015, more than 450 individual Seattle sites, buildings, vehicles, vessels, and street clocks have been designated as Seattle Landmarks subject to protection by city ordinance.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Landmarks". City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  2. ^ "Landmarks Preservation Board Records, 1891-2002". Archives West (Orbis Cascade Alliance). Retrieved December 17, 2015. This page is a finding aid for a collection at the Seattle Municipal Archives.