Ethereum

Highrise #73

Collection

Highrises

Description

**King Street Station** **Art by:** Chris Hytha **Story by:** Mark Houser It may not seem so, but this station was built on a steep hillside. The hill used to be elsewhere, however. Engineers leveled it with water cannons and used the dirt to fill in a marshy tidal flat to allow urban sprawl, including this terminal and its adjacent railyard. Excavators also bored a mile-long train tunnel under the downtown to this station to cut down on congestion. James Hill, a Minnesota shipping clerk with only one functioning eye thanks to a childhood incident with an arrow, convinced investors to join him in building the first privately financed transcontinental tracks, the Great Northern Railway. Hill became one of the wealthiest Gilded Age rail barons and gained control of the Northern Pacific, one of the three original — and deeply state-subsidized — West Coast routes and his main competition for Seattle-bound traffic. Both lines stopped at this station, crowned by a clock tower modeled on Venice's famed campanile. The building was designed by Hill's preferred Minnesota architects, who later produced plans for Michigan Central Station in Detroit and assisted with New York's Grand Central. Their lavishly appointed main waiting room was the victim of a midcentury mauling but has been exquisitely restored.

Traits

Style

Beaux-Arts

City

Seattle

Region

West

Decade

1900s

Height

200' - 299'

Token

Contract: 0x516D...b5d2
Token ID: 72

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