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Postcard photographer O.Frasch’s look from a new New Washington Hotel at 2nd and Stewart Street to the First Hill horizon north of Madison Street. For hide-and-seek one may find the Summit School (far right), Waldorf Hotel, the stairs on Union Street from Terry Avenue to 9th Avenue, First Baptist Church (the spire), the three homes described above: Bachus, Margaret & Mary Denny and Orin and Narsissa Denny, and to the right of those the Stimson-Green Mansion; St.Pauls Apartments (at Seneca and Summit – see the detail from the 1912 Baist Map that follows), both the Unitarian church and Dreamland on 7th Ave., Hotel Willard, the Normandie Hotel (with its three winds seen here from the rear), the Van Siclen Apartments on a steep 8th between Seneca and University Streets and, far left, the rear of the Sorrento Hotel.

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