File:U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA HABS WASH,17-SEAT,18-3.tif

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- U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA
Title
- U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA
Depicted place Washington; King County; Seattle
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS WASH,17-SEAT,18-3
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the low-scaled, brick-faced building is a well-preserved example of the classically-derived Mediterranean Revival Style. It was designed in 1929 under the supervision of the U.S. Treasury Department which, at the time, encouraged the use of the understated, restrained, classical revival style for federal buildings across the country. In this nation-wide context, the building is significant as a well-proportioned, simply detailed example of that style. When completed in 1931, the building houses both U.S. Immigration Offices and Detention Facilities, which served primarily as a detention center for undocumented Chinese immigrants, and a U.S. Assay Facility, which was first opened primarily to analyze the gold and silver brought from Alaska and Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush. These two seemingly unrelated agencies have individual histories that contribute to the historic significance of the building.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N346
  • Survey number: HABS WA-215
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/wa0630.photos.371157p
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