Pioneer Square Pergola
Iron and glass shelter over a marble-lined underground comfort station, rebuilt after a truck crash.
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This guide to Pioneer Square Pergola in Seattle turns on a January 2001 accident, when an eighteen-wheeler clipped the corner of this iron and glass canopy and brought down ninety-one years of ironwork in a heap of glass and Christmas lights. It reaches back to 1909, when architect Julian Everett built the shelter over a lavish, marble-lined underground restroom for cable car riders. It follows the family-run ironworks that mortgaged their own house to fund the rebuild, discovering the original structure had never stood level or plumb to begin with.
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