Pity the poor birdseye artist and his agent who prepared this detailed sketch of the Seattle existing before the Great Fire of June 6, 1889, only to have the most detailed and closet part of it all – the Central Business District – be razed to smoldering ruins, which the artist, perhaps in an effort to salvage some of his efforts represent with a cloud of smoke circling the burned district – about 30 blocks of it – like a soiled nimbus. We have marked the fire stations position on Columbia Street with a red dot.