Belltown Alleys and Courtyards

SIFF Cinema Downtown is identifiable by its glowing marquee and grand, mid-twentieth-century aesthetic on Fourth Avenue. This theater first opened in nineteen sixty-three, just one year after the Seattle World's Fair, and gained fame as…

Bell Street Park is identifiable by its curbless, single-level surface that merges the roadway with pedestrian areas across four city blocks. Opened in two thousand fourteen, this project repurposed a standard street into a shared space…

Bathtub Gin and Company is marked by a single, small tin plate mounted on a door in an alleyway between First and Second Avenue. Housed in the former boiler room of the Humphrey Building, this bar occupies a basement space that was…

The Jewelbox Theater is a small, sixty-five-seat proscenium stage tucked inside The Rendezvous in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. Its most recognizable feature is its vintage, intimate scale, which contrasts with the larger performance…

The First and Battery Portal Porch is a small public space built on the site of the former south entrance to the Battery Street Tunnel. You can identify this area by the layout of its eighteen hundred square feet, which occupies the space…

The building at eighty-one Vine Street is recognized by its four-story brick base, topped with a distinct two-story penthouse addition that sits back from the original facade. Originally constructed in nineteen fourteen as a factory, the…

The Belltown Cottage Park and P-Patch is defined by three historic wooden cottages that sit beside a dense, forty-four hundred square foot community garden. While the garden is filled with vegetable plots, flowers, and mosaic-covered…