Office of Urban Conservation subject files, 1974-1997.

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Office of Urban Conservation subject files, 1974-1997.

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Correspondence; memos; legal documents; and other materials documenting the projects and concerns of the Office of Urban Conservation. A large portion of the materials address the controversy over what to do with Fort Lawton. The Parks Dept. and open-space advocates wanted to demolish the buildings left from the army fort, while preservationists wished to save at least some of them. Planning and negotiation about what became Discovery Park went on for years, finally resulting in the preservation of the most significant buildings. Another topic addressed in some depth is the preservation of historic religious properties. The city tried to declare both First Covenant Church and First United Methodist Church as historic landmarks, but the churches fought the designations in court on constitutional grounds and won. There is a great deal of documentation of these two cases, as well as material from other relevant cases around the country, documentation of historic religious properties in the city, and files relating to a Seattle conference on religious properties. Other subjects documented in the collection include the Frederick & Nelson site, preservation surveys, the downtown plan, Seattle Commons, the Landmarks Preservation Board, and Preservation Week activities.

6.4 cubic ft. (16 boxes)

Seattle Municipal Archives

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First United Methodist Church (Seattle, Wash.)

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Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board

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Seattle (Wash.). Office of Urban Conservation

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The Office of Urban Conservation was created in 1975 as part of the Dept. of Community Development (DCD). It was founded in an era of citizen protests against a proposed urban renewal program that would have demolished Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market. The office's mandate was to coordinate Seattle's historic preservation programs and administer the city's landmark boards and historic districts. When the DCD was abolished in 1992, the office became the Historic Preservation Program in the De...