List of structures on Elliott Bay

Past and present structures on Elliott Bay in Seattle, Washington, U.S. include:

piers, wharves, terminals, etc.
mills and industrial buildings, mostly in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
trestle bridges, mostly in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Bridges of various types along the Spokane Street corridor

Although the focus is on structures built over water, this list also includes some terminals etc. built on fill. Especially in the early years, it can be difficult to make a distinction between the two. "ne of... basic practices," writes David B. Williams, "was to drive a double row of pilings out from the shoreline, lay timbers across the tops of the pilings to form piers and wharves, and build out atop the wood. They could then dump material under these structures, undertaking the land-making practice known as wharfing out."
It is not possible for a list like this to be complete. In the late 1880s and 1890s, a lack of legal clarity about ownership of lands between the low- and high-tide lines resulted in a massive number of structures on the tideflats, mostly poorly built and short-lived. "The craze for salt water," remarked Judge Thomas Burke, had "broken out again with greater violence than before... lunatics of high and low degree... like so many cawing crows on the mudflats." Even today, there are numerous small, anonymous piers and ruins of piers.
The geography of Elliott Bay has changed considerably in the period since people of European ancestry first settled in the Seattle area in the mid-19th century. In particular, virtually all of the Industrial District and Sodo, as well as all of Harbor Island are built on landfill; also, there have been a series of smaller adjustments to the terrain of the Downtown waterfront, including the construction of the Alaskan Way Seawall.
In general, when listing variants of names we have not listed minor variants such as "Yesler Wharf/Yesler's Wharf".

Before the Great Fire

Structures from before the Great Seattle Fire, June 6, 1889.
Besides what is listed below, there is the following from Daily Pacific Tribune, January 15, 1877: "Last year the Seattle Coal Company pushed out a new dock, as also the Seattle Gas and Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad Companies." The Seattle and Walla Walla later became the Columbia and Puget Sound. This suggests either slightly earlier dates for the Columbia and Puget Sound piers than given by other sources, or that they were begun in 1876 and not rapidly completed, or that short-lived piers were quickly replaced; similarly for the coal pier. Conversely, it suggests a slightly later date than given elsewhere for the "Gas Cove" gas works, although this could have been the addition of a pier to an existing operation. Also, that same 1877 article refers to a pier "for Mr. Isaac Parker, in the rear of his lot on Commercial Street, and immediately alongside the Craig & Hastings Wharf." That suggests two structures south of Yesler's Wharf, neither mentioned below, at least not by those names. Even if the Parker wharf was never built, the Craig & Hastings Wharf appears to have already existed in January 1877.

Mudflats south of King Street

Prior to the Great Seattle Fire, anything south of King Street and west of roughly Eighth Avenue was on mudflats.

	Name	Image	Year completed	Year destroyed	Type	Location	Notes
1	Hemrich & Co's Brewery Bay View Brewery	Pictured in 1901. more images		between 1901 and 1905	Bottling plant on pilings	West of Grant Street on east shore of Elliott Bay.	Most of the Hemrich/Bay View facility was always on solid ground, but planks on pilings extended past the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad, then across Grant Street, to the bottling plant pier. Grant Street was roughly along the same route as today's Airport Way S., but was a causeway over water: the area had not yet been filled. Between Grant Street and the shore, also on pilings, was the C. & P.S.R.R. By 1905 the area was solid ground.
2	Palouse Feed Mill Warehouse		c.1888	?	Feed mill on pilings	East of Grant Street, but west of the C. & P.S. R.R. on east shore of Elliott Bay, "about 1 miles south of Mill and Front Sts."	Described as "new" in 1888
3	Slaughterhouse		c.1888	?	slaughterhouse on pilings	West of Grant Street on east shore of Elliott Bay, "about 1 miles south of Mill and Front Sts."	Described as "being built" in 1888
4	McDonald & Rice's Planing Mill				Pier with planing mill at end	Between Judkins and B Streets, extending across C. & P.S. R.R. and Grant Street on east shore of Elliott Bay.	The 1888 Sanborn map notes that the mill is "not in operation...building and machy becoming impaired...Tatum & Bowen ". The map shows over a dozen structures on a complex of connected piers, with the mill being the farthest from dry land, some from shore. ---- This is right in the path of today's Interstate 5, with the mill falling roughly along the line of Royal Brougham Way.
5	"Gas Cove" gas works		1873	?	gas works with pier	south of Jackson, between Fourth and Fifth Avenues	Seattle's first gas works was built partly on land and partly on a pier extending south from Jackson Street over the salt water that became known as "Gas Cove". Fourth and Fifth Avenues were then known as Fifth and Sixth Avenue, respectively.
6	Mechanics Wharf		by 1875	by 1889		south of King Street, foot of what was then Second Street and is now Occidental Avenue South
7	Atkin's Wharf		by 1875	by 1889	wharf	south of King Street on line of Commercial Avenue	-
8			by 1884	1889	planked area over mudflats	south of King Street, east of Stetson & Post Mill	The 1884 Sanborn map shows several buildings of the Hall and Paulson Furniture Manufactury on planks extending about a block south from King Street, extending from Second Avenue in the east to the railroad tracks beyond the line of Commercial Street in the west; on the other side of the tracks was the Stetson & Post Mill. The 1888 Sanborn map shows this much expanded. Hall and Paulson has packed in more buildings and has extended south onto another small pier; extensive C. & P.S. R.R. rail infrastructure has been added between Commercial and Second Avenues in the west and Third Avenue in the east. The area extending roughly a block-and-a-half south of King Street includes a railway turntable, a locomotive house, car shop, machine shop, etc. A distinct rail line on planks continues south several blocks roughly along the line of Second Avenue, where the Oregon Improvement Company Mill is located on another large planked pier. This either incorporated or replaced Atkin's Wharf.

North to Smith Cove

As discussed below in section [|Trestle (and other) bridges], italics indicate structures shown on one or more maps, but little other evidence that they actually existed.

	Name	Image	Year completed	Year destroyed	Type	Location	Notes
1	Seattle Barrel Manufactury Pier		1880	?	Pier	Foot of Lake Street, Belltown.	The Seattle Barrel Manufactury stood on dry land between Lake and ran northwest along the shore past Eagle to Grant, west of West St.. The pier was at the south end of their shoreline. This is now entirely filled, and is roughly the eastern half of the Olympic Sculpture Park, between Elliott and Western. This may or may not have been the same structure as Coffman's Wharf, attested a few years later.
2	Coffman's Wharf			?	pier/wharf	Foot of Lake, now Broad
3	Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway Ocean Dock			?	railroad pier	Smith Cove	These correspond to piers 38/88 and 39/89. Daryl C. McClary implies that although these appears on the 1890 Anderson map, they were not actually built at that time, and instead were part of the Great Northern Railway's construction of a route north out of Seattle in the early 1890s.
4	Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway Coal Bunkers			?	railroad pier/coal bunkers	just west of Smith Cove	These correspond to piers 38/88 and 39/89. Daryl C. McClary implies that although these appears on the 1890 Anderson map, they were not actually built at that time, and instead were part of the Great Northern Railway's construction of a route north out of Seattle in the early 1890s.

Trestle (and other) bridges

Italics indicate structure shown on one or more maps, but little other evidence that they actually existed. As Matthew Klingle has written, "paper railroads... crisscrossed Puget Sound, routes planned and licensed but never built..."

	Name	Image	Year completed	Year destroyed	Type	Location	Notes
1	Portland & Puget Sound Railroad / Union Pacific trestle		Never built	N/A	rail trestle	West Seattle, Alki Beach to Duwamish Head and beyond	The 1890 Anderson map shows this as a rail line coming in from the south along the Puget Sound coast, cutting inland near Alki Point, then continuing around Duwamish Head, coming onto land again and ending in the harbor area a bit south of the ferry terminal. However, while it is possible that some rights of way were secured, this line was never built.
2	Seattle & Southern Railroad Trestles		?	?	multiple railroad trestles	Various trestles over Puget Sound	The 1890 Anderson map shows this as a rail line close to the shoreline running slightly east of south from the West Seattle wheat elevators and warehouses, crossing relatively open water roughly along the line of Spokane Street to Pigeon Point, and continuing slightly east of south, partly on trestle over water and partly on land, to roughly Kellogg Island, then continuing in a similar direction on land. This is on the 1890 Anderson map, but may not yet have been built. There are few, if any, references to a "Seattle & Southern Railroad" as anything beyond the planning stage. At least one of these references seems to preclude it being an existing railroad in Seattle in 1889-1890.
3	Railroad Avenue	On a planked area over water near Pioneer Square in the 1910s. On the Central Waterfront, just south of Broad Street in 1934. Near Smith Cove in the 1910s. more images	created by ordinance 1887, parts by October 1887;, cross-bay trestle c. 1890; all by 1893.	?	multiple railroad trestles	Various trestles over Elliott Bay	By October 1887, the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway was running on this line on piers just offshore, from the Yesler's Wharf area north to Smith Cove just north of the S., L.S. & E. R.R. Ocean Dock, from which the line continued through Interbay, Ballard, Brooklyn, shows Railroad Avenue beginning on the West Seattle shore of the bay near the wheat elevators and warehouses, heading roughly east across the bay, then turning to run due north to King Street, a block west of Commercial Street, along the line of today's Alaskan Way South, where it meets the abovementioned line opened in 1887. According to the 1890 Anderson map, this line carried the Portland & Puget Sound Railroad, Northern Pacific Railway's Seattle Terminal Railway, and Seattle & Montana Railroad, an enterprise of James J. Hill's that began construction in May 1890 with construction north of Seattle, incorporated the S., L.S. & E. R.R., and began running north from Seattle October 12, 1891, providing a link to the Canadian Pacific Railway. The east–west line across the bay was completed by 1893. A map from that year shows two significant structures built adjoining the trestle in otherwise open water: P.H. McMaster Shingle Mill, south of the Downtown waterfront, at the turn in the trestle. American Lumber Co's Shingle Mill, west of that, a bit east of the middle of the bay.
4	Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad trestle		March 7, 1877	abandoned 1881	railroad trestle	Trestle over tideflats	This trestle built by Joe Surber ran south from the King Street Coal Wharf, carrying trains through what has now been filled as part of Seattle's Industrial District; the lines continued to the coal mines at Renton, Washington. It was short-lived because shipworms attacked the pilings. Henry Villard's Oregon Improvement Company bought the Seattle and Walla Walla in 1880 and renamed it the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad.
5	Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad trestle	This 1881 photo shows a trestle along the C. & P.S. R.R. route hugging the shore; the C. & P.S. R.R. route is not yet built. more images	1881	?	railroad trestle	Trestle over tideflats	Coming out of the King Street Coal Wharf, this trestle ran mainly south just off of the then-shore at the foot of Beacon Hill, carrying C. & P.S. R.R. trains through what has now been filled as part of Seattle's Industrial District, eventually re-joining the prior C. & P.S. R.R. route.
6	Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad trestle	This pre-Fire photo shows a pair of trestles along the C. & P.S. R.R. route, as well as one along the C. & P.S. R.R. route. more images		?	railroad trestle	Trestle over tideflats	Coming out of the King Street Coal Wharf, this trestle rapidly turned south over the mudflats, carrying C. & P.S. R.R. trains on a line not far from today's First Avenue South through what has now been filled as part of Seattle's Industrial District, eventually re-joining the prior C. & P.S. R.R. routes. According to the 1890 Anderson map, the northern portion of this coincided with Railroad Avenue over the mudflats, separating when Railroad Avenue headed west across the bay; from there, this trestle ran slightly east of south, carrying Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad and Northern Pacific trains.

Since roughly 1900 there have been a series of bridges of various types running east–west roughly along the line of Spokane Street; ''see List of bridges in Seattle.''

Since the Great Fire

Harbor Island

Harbor Island is an artificial island in the mouth of the Duwamish River, where it empties into Elliott Bay. Built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company, when Harbor Island was completed in 1909 it was the largest artificial island in the world, at 350 acres. It appears that no substantial businesses had opened on the island in 1911. Since 1912, the island has been used for commercial and industrial activities. Harbor Island was made from 24 million yd³ of earth removed in the Jackson and Dearborn Street regrades and dredged from the bed of the Duwamish.
This list goes clockwise around Harbor Island, starting from the south end.

	Name	Image	Year completed	Year destroyed	Type	Location	Notes
1	Port of Seattle Harbor Island Marina	Harbor Island Marina, 2007 more images	?	extant	marina, mainly for pleasure boats	Harbor Reach, south end of Harbor Island, especially West Waterway
2	Jim Clark Marina	Jim Clark Marina, 2023	1973	extant	marina for pleasure boats	Harbor Island, West Waterway, south of Spokane Street and railroad
3	Nieder & Marcus	Abandoned Tilbury Cement towers, 2023 more images	by 1918	after 1918	?	Harbor Island, West Waterway, immediately north of Spokane Street	More recently, this site was Tilbury Cement.
4	Terminal 18 Park	Terminal 18 Park, 2023 more images	?	extant	public park	Harbor Island at Hanford Street, West Waterway	1.1 acre public park Near here in 1918 was the Mullins Saw Mill Co.
5	Campbell Machine Works		by 1918	after 1918	machine works	southwest Harbor Island, West Waterway, small parcel southwest of Mullins Saw Mill Co.
6	Fisher Mill	Fisher Flouring Mills Co., circa 1911. more images	1911	extant	flour mill, grain elevator, pier	southwest Harbor Island, West Waterway	In 1963, the mill was shipping and receiving grain, feed, and flour by barge. Fisher Communications sold the mill to Pendleton in 2001, but Pendleton closed the mill a year later. The mill soon passed into the hands of King County; sound stages for film and video opened there in 2021.
7	Chas. H. Lilly Co. Flour, Feed	The Lilly flour mill can be partly seen behind the sailboat in this 1913 photo.	between 1911 and 1913	after 1918		immediately north of Fisher Flouring Mills	Charles Lilly was the "Lilly" of Lilly Bogardus
8	Standard Boiler Works		by 1918	after 1918	boiler works	immediately north of Chas. H. Lilly Co.
9	Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company Ship yards,		between 1911 and 1918	in ruins as of 2019	piers	Harbor Island near Seattle Bulk Shipping, West Waterway	A 1967 water pollution study with data for 1963 refers to "Puget Sound Bridge & Drydock Co., Plant No. 1", with four piers, in what appears to be a list going counterclockwise around Harbor Island. The City of Seattle Harbor Department Map of Central Waterfront District, February 1918, shows six piers. 1945 US Navy aerial survey:
10	Arco	Arco, in 2011	?	extant	pier	Harbor Island, West Waterway	A 1967 water pollution study with data for 1963 refers to "Richfield Oil Corp. Wharf, Pier 11", in what appears to be a list going counterclockwise around Harbor Island. 1971 harbor map also calls it "Pier 11" but refers to "Atlantic Richfield Co.".
11	Vigor Shipyard	Todd Shipyard in 1983 Vigor/Todd Shipyard in 2011 more images	1918	extant	shipyard, multiple docks and piers	northwest Harbor Island, West Waterway and north side	Tracing its history back to 1887 via Central Waterfront shipyards Moran Bros. Company, Seattle Construction and Drydock Company, etc., the company was acquired in 1916 by William H. Todd, and moved to Harbor Island in 1918. A 1967 water pollution study with data for 1963 indicates Todd as having seven active piers and four drydocks, as well as owning an unused "Plant A, Pier 18". The 1971 harbor map shows Todd with several multi-vessel piers, Pier 12 on the West Waterway and Piers 13 & 14 on the north side of Harbor Island, as well as sharing Pier 15 with Mobil Oil. Todd built 10 s concurrently in 1941. In 2011 Todd was acquired by Vigor Industrial. 1945 US Navy aerial survey:
12	Maxum Petroleum pier	Maxum Petroleum, 2011	?	extant	pier	Harbor Island, north side	Maxum may be the same facility that a 1967 water pollution study with data for 1963 lists as "Mobile Oil Co." with two piers, which in turn is certainly the same as Pier 15 that the 1971 harbor map shows as shared by Todd Shipyard and Mobil Oil. At roughly this location, the 1918 Port of Seattle map shows a very small pier labeled "Harbor Island Manufacturing Co.", also shown on that year's City of Seattle Harbor Department Map. Kroll's 1920 map shows the site as "General Petroleum," with no pier.
13	Pier 16		by 1963	after 1971	pier	Harbor Island, north side, where tracks reach shore between 13th Ave SW and 11th Ave SW	As of 2019, there does not appear to be any significant pier protruding from land at this site.
14	Pier 17		by 1963	extant	pier	Harbor Island, north side, just east of 13th Ave SW
15	East Waterway Dock & Warehouse Co.		between 1911 and 1918	after 1918	dock and warehouse	Harbor Island, East Waterway	Now part of Terminal 18.
16	Terminal 18	Terminal 18 in 2006	by 1971	extant	container terminal	roughly the east half of Harbor Island	196 of Harbor Island's 430 acres. 1971 harbor map lists "POS ' container terminal, Matson Navigation Co., U.S. Navy, United Export Packers".
17	Pier 19	Shell facility on Harbor Island, 2011	by 1963	after 1971	pier	Harbor Island, East Waterway	Now part of Terminal 18. Shell still has a large facility roughly in the center of Harbor Island.
18	Pier 20		by 1963	after 1971	pier	Harbor Island, East Waterway	1971 harbor map lists "POS ' general-cargo terminal, Foreign Trade Zone No. 5, Tank Farm". Now part of Terminal 18.
19	Rogers, Brown & Co.		by 1918	after 1918	?	Harbor Island, East Waterway, north of J. F. Duthie & Company
20	J. F. Duthie & Company	J. F. Duthie & Company, 1917	1916	between 1920 and 1922	numerous shipyard buildings	Harbor Island, East Waterway	The company predates this particular shipyard, and lasted beyond its closure. It was founded in 1911, and built at least four ships before 1916; in 1928 the company name was changed to Wallace Bridge Company.
21	Pier 23		by 1963	extant	tugboat/barge wharf	Harbor Island, East Waterway north of Spokane Street	formerly Pioneer Sand & Gravel Co. Wharf
22	Harley Marine Services	Harley Marine Services, 2012	?	extant	wharf/quay	Harbor Island, East Waterway just north of Spokane Street

The 1971 harbor map shows much of Harbor Island south of Spokane Street, along with the area across the East Waterway on the Seattle mainland, as Terminal 102, POS Container Facility.

Mudflats south of King Street

The mudflats south of King Street were filled in the early 20th century, forming present-day Sodo and the portion of the Industrial District east of the East Waterway of the Duwamish. Prior to that, contained numerous buildings on pilings.
For the post-Fire section, we are confining this to structures east of Commercial Street ; structures to the west of that correspond more or less to the present-day waterfront. The mudflats south of King Street were filled in at various times starting July 29, 1895 and extending into the late 1910s or, possibly in some cases, the 1920s.
This list runs roughly counterclockwise, first running north up the east shore of the mudflats then turning to include both the north and west shore of the mudflats, as well as a few buildings in the middle of the flats along the early 20th-century rail lines before landfill was complete.

Waterfront south of Atlantic Street / Edgar Martinez

The present-day east shore of Elliott Bay in the Industrial District and Sodo south of South King Street is entirely a product of landfill in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The list here runs approximately south to north, going north to about historic Atlantic Street, just south of the present-day stadiums.
As of the 2010s, the vast bulk of this area between Spokane Street and S. Edgar Martinez Drive has been combined into a container terminal, Port of Seattle Terminal 30. The only exceptions are:

a small disused area
Pier 28
At the north end of this area, the Coast Guard facility, Pier 36

All from except as noted.

	Name	Image	Year completed	Year destroyed	Type	Location	Notes
1	Barton & Co.		by June 30, 1917	after 1918	packing company	under the viaduct/bridge at Spokane Street	Barton & Co., meatpackers, known for "Circle W." meat products
2	Elliott Bay Mill Co.		by 1912	after 1912	sawmill	immediately north of Spokane Street, East Waterway
3	Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company		by 1912	between 1912 and 1918	shipyard, manufacturing facility, etc.	between Spokane and Hanford Streets, south of canal, East Waterway	The company shows at this location on the 1912 Baist map, but the 1918 Port of Seattle map shows it as having moved to Harbor Island. The canal is no longer there ; this would now be roughly at E. Marginal Way, south of S. Hinds St. By 1940, the company had moved to Harbor Island
4	Spokane Street Dock	Spokane Street Terminal, 1927 Aerial view, 1960. Spokane Street Dock below, Hanford Street Dock above.	1917	after 1971	cold storage	between Spokane and Hanford Streets, south of turning basin between piers 24 and 25, East Waterway, roughly the former Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company location.	Port of Seattle facility. Seven-story concrete cold storage building. In 1963, the terminal was mainly focused in fish and ice, and had piers on its north and west sides, the north being the turning basin. 1971 harbor map shows the turning basin still there, mentions Auto Warehousing, Inc. and Rainier-Port Cold Storage. At some later date, the turning basin was eliminated, and this was combined into Pier 25 as a container facility, the new Pier 25.
5	Hefferman Dry Dock Company		by 1912	after 1913	dry dock facility	north side of mouth of canal, south of Hanford Street, East Waterway
6	Hanford Street Dock	Grain terminal at Hanford Street; Sears in background, 1917. more images	1915	1971	grain terminal including hay shed, transit shed	north of turning basin between piers 24 and 25, south of Hanford Street, East Waterway	Port of Seattle facility. In 1963, the terminal was south and west sides, the south being the turning basin, which is still there on the 1971 harbor map. 1971 harbor map indicates Cargill, Inc. at the grain terminal. When the turning basin was eliminated the grain terminal was torn down and this was combined with Pier 25 as a container facility, the new Pier 25. Its function was effectively replaced by the Terminal 86 Grain Facility; they had a slight overlap in operation.
7	Isaacson Iron Works	J. F. Duthie & Company shipbuilders at 2917 Whatcom Avenue	between 1912 and 1944	1983	steel mill	East Waterway, south of Milwaukee Road facilities	The 1918 Port of Seattle map shows "Pacific Const'n & Engineering Co." at approximately this location; Similarly, Pacific Coast Const. & Eng. Co. on the City of Seattle Harbor Department Map of Central Waterfront District of that year. Frank Waterhouse & Company's Pacific Ports gives the address for that as 2917 Whatcom Avenue; Whatcom Avenue was the extension of Railroad Avenue south through the newly filled lands, along the east margin of the Duwamish Waterway. An image of J. F. Duthie & Company shipbuilders in the collection of the University of Washington Libraries, dating from roughly the same era, gives that identical address for that company. Isaacson Iron Works began as a blacksmith shop in 1907. During World War II, Isaacson Steel incorporated the Jorgensen Steel Works. Eventually the largest steel mill in the Pacific Northwest, the Isaacson Forge division was sold to the Earle M. Jorgensen Company in 1965. The Isaacson plant closed in 1983, with all equipment shipped to China. This area was eventually combined with into the new Pier 25 container facility.
8	Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad facilities , C.M.&St.P.R.R. Wharf & Car Ferry, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Car Ferry Slip, C. M. & St. P. Ry.	Milwaukee Road facilities, 1915 Weiding and Independent Fisheries, 1912	by 1907	after 1971	freight house, sidings	foot of Forrest Street	Freight house on north side of Forrest, yard with sidings on south side, with a small waterway in between. A 1967 water pollution study with data for 1963 shows Pier 27 as "Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Car Ferry Slip"; it refers to the northern pier simply as "Pier 28". A map in a 1973 Seattle government report shows "Milwaukee Road" still having a facility in this area. 1971 harbor map shows American Mail Line at Pier 28. The currently designated Pier 28 may not correspond exactly to the area so designated in 1944. According to Paul Dorpat's 2005 book, the Lander and Stacy Street piers had been incorporated into Pier 28 before the big consolidation of Terminal 30.
9	until 1913: Weiding and Independent Fisheries	Milwaukee Road facilities, 1915 Weiding and Independent Fisheries, 1912	between 1907 and 1912	1922?	fish packing facility?	on pier west of Milwaukee Road freight house	Became National Independent Fisheries in 1913; company liquidated August 2, 1922.
10	Commercial Boiler Works Wharf	Milwaukee Road facilities, 1915 Weiding and Independent Fisheries, 1912	by 1912	after 1915	pier with structures	immediately north of Milwaukee Road freight house, south of Lander	From shore to open water: Western Iron Works Seattle Machine Works Commercial Boiler Works A 1910 listing of piers in 1907 indicates Oregon & Washington Railway in this area; it might have been the same facility.
11	Lander Street Wharf ; Stacy Street Dock ; and Port of Seattle Grain Terminal.	Lander and Stacy Street docks October 9, 1914... ...and in 1915. more images	c. 1914	after 1971	piers / wharves	between Lander and Stacy Streets, East Waterway	Port of Seattle facilities, used by the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., and Black Ball Freight Service. These were west of the Sears that is now Starbucks headquarters. Immediately before the piers in this area were all combined as a single container terminal, Terminal 30 served from 2003 to 2009 as a temporary terminal for Alaska cruises by Holland America Line and Princess Cruises, which relocated in 2009 to a permanent facility at Pier 91.
12	San Juan Fish & Packing Ice Co.		by 1918	after 1918	shipyard	between San Juan Fish Dock and Standard Oil, East Waterway	The 1912 Baist map shows this as an unnamed planked area with a saw mill and a machine shop
14	Standard Oil Co. Oil Wharf	Standard Oil facility, 1905	by c. 1905	after 1973	oil wharf and complex of oil tanks	between Walker and Holgate, East Waterway	A small, adjacent inland property may have been the world's first gas station.
15	Hammond Milling	The Hammond Mill was the rightmost of the three waterfront mills in this 1906 photo	by 1906	between 1913 and 1944	flour mill	north of Holgate, East Waterway	Along with Albers and Centennial Mills, part of the "flour milling district". A 1910 listing of piers in 1907 mentions Hammond, but lists them farther south, between Standard Oil and San Juan Fish Company; they may have had an earlier facility there.
16	Telephone Pole Yard, Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone		by 1944	after 1971	telephone pole yard	south of Associated Oil Dock	A 1967 water pollution study with data for 1963 does not mention this facility, so it may have been gone by then. Paul Dorpat's 2005 book specifically says it has "disappeared".
17	Associated Oil Dock, Phillips Petroleum Co.		by 1944	after 1971	oil dock	south of Albers Bros. Milling Co.
18	Oregon Boiler		by 1912	after 1912	manufacturing facility	south of Albers Bros. Milling Co.	The 1912 Baist map shows this on the shore south of Albers Bros.
19	Albers Bros. Milling Co.	Loading up at Albers Mill in 1906.	by 1906	after 1944; disused by 1963	flour mill	south of Massachusetts Street, East Waterway	Along with Hammond and Centennial Mills, part of the "flour milling district". Inland of the mill in 1912 were a hay and grain warehouse and "Plaster Co. Furniture Fact 3".
20	Jack Perry Memorial Shoreline Public Access	Old pier, probably a remnant of the Albers Dock, 2007. more images	?	extant	shoreline access park	1700 East Marginal Way S., south of Massachusetts Street, East Waterway	near the historic site of Albers Milling
21	City of Seattle Fire Wharf		by 1918	after 1918	fire wharf	between Albers Mill and Skinner & Eddy, East Waterway
22	before 1917: Seattle Dock Company's Re-plat 1917-1920: Skinner & Eddy's shipbuilding plant No. 2	Fire at Golden West Baking Co., Seattle, September 24, 1909 Skinner and Eddy shipyard, 1917	by 1912	closed 1920	shipyard and various other structures	north of Massachusetts Street, East Waterway, extending slightly north of the foot of S. Edgar Martinez Drive ; at times, this included about 10 acres north of Atlantic Street.	The 1912 Baist map shows a variety of buildings, including Golden Baking Co., NW Dairy Co. an unnamed meatpacking company, Hofius Steel Equipment, and Letson & Burpee, besides Seattle Dock Company's own shipyard. Interstate Fisheries Co. at this location went public in 1902, and in 1913 had of dock frontage, and in 1907, prior to their opening of a large facility north of Broad Street, Union Oil Company of California had a facility here; the facility is still shown on a 1911 map. Beginning in April 1917, during World War I, the Skinner & Eddy Corporation first leased and purchased all of this property, as well as further property to the north that was owned by Centennial Mill. However, by 1920, the war's end and economic depression resulted in an end to Skinner & Eddy shipbuilding operations. The property passed to the United States Shipping Board and, in 1923, was sold to the Port of Seattle, who, in turn, sold it to the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, which soon thereafter merged into the Pacific-Alaska Navigation Company, which then changed its name to the Pacific Steamship Company.
23	1925-1940: Pacific Steamship Company 1940-1958 or 1960: U.S. Army Seattle Port of Embarkation since 1966: United States Coast Guard Station Seattle	Pier 39, 1946 Coast Guard base, 2007 Seen from Alaskan Way, 2011. Museum in foreground. more images	1925	extant	1925-1940: steamship dock 1940-1958 or 1960: U.S. Army Port of Embarkation 1958 or 1960-1965: Army Corps of Engineers District Headquarters since 1966: USCG facility	north of Massachusetts Street, East Waterway, extending slightly north of the foot of S. Edgar Martinez Drive ; at times, this included about 10 acres north of Atlantic Street.	This is the same location as the Seattle Dock Company's Re-plat and Skinner & Eddy's shipbuilding plant No. 2. Pacific Steamship's building was "a very modern passenger and freight terminal" when it was built in 1925, and remains the hub of this facility nearly a century later. At least part of the Pacific Steamship facility was abandoned and became part of a Hooverville in the late 1930s, before being repurposed as a Port of Embarkation. The Hooverville was bulldozed April 10, 1941. Since 1965, the piers have belonged to the Port of Seattle, who lease it to the Coast Guard. It is the only substantial military facility left in King County. Includes Coast Guard Museum Northwest. 1971 harbor map lists Pier 36 as "POS general-cargo terminal". Pier 37, built 1941 for the Port of Seattle as a general cargo terminal was taken over in 1960 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as its District Headquarters The Port of Seattle reacquired Pier 37 in 1965, but it continued to function as the Corps of Engineers District HQ at least until 1971. By 1971, Pier 38 was gone, and Pier 39 was listed as a "POS OCP terminal".

Waterfront from Atlantic Street to King Street

The former S. Atlantic Street is now known as S. Edgar Martinez Drive. From here north, the waterfront faces the open water of Elliott Bay, rather than the channelized Duwamish River. Beginning in the early 1980s, the waterfront area roughly between S. Edgar Martinez Drive and King Street were combined into a 3-berth container terminal, Port of Seattle Terminal 46. All of the waterways between the piers were filled in. As late as 1971, the Port of Seattle still distinguished Piers 42 and 43, and when the current three-berth configuration was first implemented, the southernmost berth was still known for a time as Pier 37, the other two both as Pier 46.

	Name	Image	Year completed	Year destroyed	Type	Location	Notes
1	Centennial Mill	Centennial Mill, 1900 more images	1898	1917	flour mill	north of Atlantic	Along with Hammond and Albers Mills, part of the "flour milling district". In 1912, the Centennial Mill pier was also home to United Collieries Co. and Hammond Warehouse Co., with a furniture warehouse and an iron forge. Torn down in 1917 for the northern part of Skinner & Eddy Plant No. 2. There were extensive structures on the pier besides the mill itself. In the 1903 view to the east shown here, only the iron works barely discernible in the background at top is on the far side of Railroad Avenue.
2	Northern Fish Co.	Northern Fish Co. pier seen from atop Centennial Mill, 1903	by 1905	after 1912	feed & fuel company, engine works, lumber yard.	south of Connecticut	1903 photo shows signs for Northern Fish Co. and United Parking Co.
3	C.&P.S. Log Spur		by 1918	after 1918	railway spur	at Connecticut -	"C.&P.S." is presumably Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad. That name had actually gone out of use in 1916, when that became the Pacific Coast Railroad Company.
4	Black's Replat		by 1912	after 1912	pier with a variety of small businesses	north of Connecticut	Buildings on the pier included "N.W. Iron Works, Alaska Boiler Shop, American Iron & Wire Wks, Elevators & Hoisting Machinery, Boiler Wks." The 1918 City of Seattle Harbor Department Map of Central Waterfront District labels this area as "Steel Yard."
5	Port of Seattle		by 1944	after 1971	steamship pier		Also used as part of the port of embarkation during World War II. The Alaska Steamship Company moved here in the late 1940s.
6			1889	by 1912	various structures	south of Norman Street	The 1893 Sanborn map shows an area equivalent to five city blocks west of Commercial St running east–west, south of Norman Street, as a series of planked areas over tide flats. The block from Commercial St to West Street is mainly tenements. The narrow strip between West Street and the Railroad Avenue tracks shows a small boatbuilder facing south onto the tideflats. Buildings in the next block west include the Cha's K. Zorn Furniture Factory and the McSorley Bottling Works. Then a block-long pier leads to Mechanics Mill and Lumber Co's saw mill. A 1910 listing of piers in 1907 lists a "city wharf" in this area.
7	The Moran Co. Ship Builders	Moran Bros. Shipyard, 1902 Moran Bros. between 1903 and 1909, with Dearborn Coal Wharf and Centennial Mill in background. more images	1889	1918	shipyard	north of Black's Replat, extending north roughly to the foot of Charles Street.	The Moran Brothers began rebuilding at this site on the tideflats immediately after the Great Seattle Fire, opening for business just ten days later. The company expanded steadily, covering by 1892, and building 14 paddlewheelers for the Yukon Gold Rush trade between January and May 1898 and going on to build the USS Nebraska (BB-14). The 1893 Sanborn map shows the shipyard running mainly east–west in a single north–south block south of Charles Street. The area equivalent to five city blocks west of Commercial St is a series of planked areas over tide flats. At the northwest corner of Commercial and Plummer is a dairy. At the northwest corner of the same "block", the southeast corner of Charles and West Streets, is P.V. Dwyer Bros. Foundry. Just west of West Street are the railroad tracks of Railroad Avenue, then, successively, Moran Bros. Co. and Seattle Drydock and Shipbuilding Co., and a "deep water wharf." In the block west of West Street a "flask yard" extends a block south of Plummer Street. During World War I, from about 1916, this was an additional Skinner & Eddy facility.
8			by 1893	shortly before 1912	multiple buildings	about halfway between Charles and Dearborn	This street-like unnamed pier ran west from Commercial St and gave access to numerous buildings on its south side, built on planking: Puget Sound Steam Laundry, at the southwest corner of Commercial a building vacant as of 1893 at the southwest corner of Railroad Avenue San Francisco Bridge Co. storehouse, about another west Then, at a distance of about west, the Allen & Nelson Land Co. storehouse, just southwest of Myers Meat Packing Co. on the next pier north. A 1910 list of piers in 1907 refers to this pier at "Puget Sound Dredging Company," and a 1911 map as "S.F. Bridge Co."
9		Myers Packing Co., 1895	by 1893	c. 1903	long wharf including fish packing company	foot of Weller, narrow wharf to west, then angling southwest	The wharf was contiguous with Stetson & Post. Just north of Weller Street was an east–west tramway, and north of that a block west of Railroad Avenue was Rock Plaster Co.'s Mill. West of that, a pier angled southwest and widened to accommodate the Myers Packing Co., and continued to the southwest.
10	Wellington Coal Co.		by 1918	after 1918	coaling pier	north of Seattle Construction and Drydock Company
11	Gen. Petroleum Co.		by 1918	after 1918	tank facility?	north of Wellington Coal Co.	Map suggests some sort of tank, south of the west end of the C.&P.S.R.R. Spur following.
12	C.&P.S.R.R. Spur		by 1918	after 1918	railway spur	north of Wellington Coal Co. and Gen. Petroleum Co.	"C.&P.S.R.R." is presumably "Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad". That name had actually gone out of use in 1916, when that became the Pacific Coast Railroad Company.
13	Seattle Coal & Fuel Co.	Wagons at Seattle Coal & Fuel Co.'s Dearborn Coal Wharf, c. 1909 US Army Transport Dix coaling up at the foot of Dearborn, 1912 more images	c. 1903	at least late 1950s	coaling pier	foot of Dearborn	Coaling pier was moved south from King Street c. 1903 when the main line railroads finally reached Seattle from the south. A 1967 water pollution study with data for 1963 breaks this into "North Pier 43: Mooring company-owned tugs and barges" and "South Pier 43: Shipment of drilling mud ; mill scale, ammonium sulphate ; magnesite, and coal. It is not clear whether the 1963 structure is the same structure as in the first half of the 20th century. Paul Dorpat says this was combined into Pier 46 in the late 1950s, but the 1971 harbor map shows a distinct Pier 43, described as "James Griffiths & Sons, Inc. Washington Tug & Barge Co.". The part of Dearborn Street nearest the waterfront is a bit north of the line of the rest of Dearborn, probably closer to Lane.
14	Pioneer Sand & Gravel Co.		by 1918	after 1918		just north of Pacific Coast Coal Co., looks contiguous with it.
15	Oregon, Washington Railway and Navigation Co.		by 1911	c. 1930s		presumably between Dearborn St. and Elliott Bay Dry Dock Co.	This may or may not be the same pier that the 1918 City of Seattle Harbor Department Map of Central Waterfront District labels "U.W.K.&N.Co." and shows in this location.
16	Elliott Bay Dry Dock Co.		by 1913	c. 1930s
17	Union Pacific Railroad Terminal		c. 1930s	after 1944. probably late 1950s			Combined the Oregon, Washington Railway and Navigation Co. Elliott Bay Dry Dock Co. piers. Used by Matson in the 1930s. Paul Dorpat says this was combined into Pier 46 in the late 1950s, but that date is probably too early.
18	Stetson & Post Co.; Stetson-Post	Stetson & Post, 1900 more images	1889	between 1909 and 1912	sawmill and related buildings	between foot of Lane and foot of King	There was a long pier in the southern half, between Lane and Weller.
19			by 1912	after 1918	piers	between Dearborn and King	The 1912 Baist map shows a largely empty planked area roughly between Dearborn & King Streets, with at least two distinct piers, corresponding to the Stetson & Post location from the 1893 Sanborn map. The more northerly, at the foot of King Street, is labeled "Sand Wharf" and shows a machine shop just west of Railroad Avenue. The 1918 Port of Seattle map describes the pier at the foot of King Street as "Boiler Works, Machine Shops & c."
20	King Street Coal Wharf	King Street Coal Wharf in 1902 more images	1889	c.1903	coal wharf	foot of King Street	Two long piers at a roughly 20° angle to one another. Coaling pier was moved south to Dearborn Street c. 1903 when the main line railroads finally reached Seattle from the south.
21	King Street Dock	King Street Dock, 1917	by 1907	after 1944, probably late 1950s, almost certainly before 1963	pier	foot of King	A 1910 document listing piers in 1907 refers to "King street wharf and Chesley tug dock, leased by Chesley Towboat Company of the Pacific Coast Company, and partly sublet to shops and boats." A 1913 listing in Railway & Marine News refers to "Chesley Dock" with of dock frontage; Chesley was a tugboat company. From at least 1917 to 1929, the pier was owned by William Pitt Trimble, whose wife died there in an accident in December 1929. Paul Dorpat says this was combined into Pier 46 in the late 1950s, but that date is probably too early.

Broad Street to Magnolia

	Name	Image	Year completed	Year destroyed	Type	Location	Notes
1	Union Oil Co. Wharf	Union Oil facility including dock at left, 1934 Pacific Mildcure Company at left, circa 1917-1920; Union Oil takes up most of the photo.	1910	between 1971 and 1989,	oil dock	site of present-day Olympic Sculpture Park	There was quite a large dock here as of 1913: of fock frontage.
2	in 1912: Occidental Fish Co.	between 1907 and 1912	after 1918	pier with shed	just north of Union Oil Co. Wharf		-
3	"Bell's" and "Whitford's" docks/wharves		by 1899	after 1899	docks/wharves	foot of Bay	The 1899 Polk's Directory indicates these two docks/wharves at the foot of Bay Street.
4	Martin Gravel Co.		by 1907	after 1913	gravel pier
5	A.S. Kary		by 1907	by 1910	lumber dock
6	Colman Creosoting Works		by 1907	between 1911 and 1918	wood treatment plant, roughly L-shaped pier	foot of W. Thomas Street, corner of Third Ave West.	The 1918 Port map shows this as filled land. As of 2019, this is roughly where a pedestrian bridge crosses Elliott Ave. W.
7	Gridiron		by 1918	after 1918	"gridiron"	very slightly southeast of Harrison St. Wharf
8	City of Seattle, Harrison St. Wharf		between 1912 and 1918		wharf	foot of W. Harrison Street	No indication of this on the 1912 Baist map, but it is on the 1918 Port map.
9	Seattle Lumber Co.		by 1907	between 1911 and 1918	sawmills and wharf	roughly from W. Harrison to W. Mercer Streets	The 1912 Baist map shows an extensive lumber yard on planks over water on the onshore side of the rail trestle, with a roughly L-shaped pier on the offshore side. The lumber company remained there after the land was filled, becoming Blackstock Lumber from the 1930s to the 1980s, and the small part of the property north of Mercer being the site of Seattle's Humane Society from the 1930s to the 1970s.
10	Terminal 86 Grain Facility and is divided into 8 shipping bins, 60 large tanks, 39 interstices, and 13 house bins. The dock is 600 feet long and can accommodate a 1,400 foot vessel." All of the incoming grain arrives by rail.
11	The N & S Electric	Citizens Light and Power Company gas plant in middle ground at right, 1902	by 1902? by 1912	after 1912	gas plant	foot of W. Highland Drive	The 1912 Baist map shows this between the rail trestle and Elliott Ave W. It is not clear whether this was on planks or fill. By 1918, this was certainly filled land. Quite likely the same thing as the Citizens Light and Power Company gas plant at or near this site, which existed by 1902.
12	Commercial Hotel		by 1912	after 1912	hotel, on planking	foot of W. Galer Street, just outside the Great Northern facilities	The 1912 Baist map shows a triangular hotel on planking on the onshore side of the rail trestle. By 1918, this land appears to be filled.
13	Great Northern Hotel	Hotel at right in this 1909 picture	by 1909	after 1909	hotel, on planking	near foot of W. Galer Street
14	Great Northern Dock	See photo above, "Piers near Smith Cove..."	after 1944	extant	steamship pier	Smith Cove	This area is now part of the filled land east of the Elliott Bay Trail.
15	Great Northern Grain Elevator Dock	See photo above, "Piers near Smith Cove..."	1890s	burned November 6, 1925	grain terminal	Smith Cove	Damaged, but not destroyed, by fire October 15, 1918; destroyed by fire November 6, 1925. At the time this burned, it was leased by the Centennial Mill Company and Northwest Magnesite Company. Centennial Mill Company relocated to Tacoma after the fire.
16	Great Northern Grain Elevator Dock	See photo above, "Piers near Smith Cove..."	1926	after 1944	grain terminal	Smith Cove	Replaced the similarly located earlier structure that burned in 1925. Initial major tenants were the Northwest Magnesite Company and the Pacific Grain Products Company of Spokane. This area is now part of the filled land east of the Elliott Bay Trail.
17	Port Commission Smith Cove Terminal	See photo above, "Piers near Smith Cove..."	between c. 1912 and 1918	extant	now part of the T91 cruise ship terminal	Smith Cove	According to Daryl C. McClary, the Port of Seattle purchased this property in Smith Cove from the Great Northern Railway and built Piers 40 and 41. The piers have been differently configured at different times. A 1947 or 1948 photograph shows them as part of a de facto Navy base, with a series of sheds occupying both sides and the south end of Pier 90, as well as the north half of Pier 91. Since 2009, Pier 91 has been the site of the Smith Cove Cruise Terminal.
18	Port Commission Smith Cove Terminal	See photo above, "Piers near Smith Cove..."	between 1912 and by 1918	extant	now part of the T91 cruise ship terminal	Smith Cove	According to Daryl C. McClary, the Port of Seattle purchased this property in Smith Cove from the Great Northern Railway and built Piers 40 and 41. The piers have been differently configured at different times. A 1947 or 1948 photograph shows them as part of a de facto Navy base, with a series of sheds occupying both sides and the south end of Pier 90, as well as the north half of Pier 91. Since 2009, Pier 91 has been the site of the Smith Cove Cruise Terminal.
19	Pioneer Glass Works		by 1912	after 1912	glass works	north entrance to Smith Cove, in Magnolia	The 1912 Baist map shows a rail spur along the north side of Smith Cove, leading to this glass works at the tip.
20	Elliott Bay Marina	Elliott Bay Marina, 2012 more images	1991	extant	pleasure-boat marina	south side of Magnolia