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Article: FAIRHAVEN BUILT ON THE RUMOR OF A RAILROAD.(Getaways)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 23, 2000
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Vestiges of the charm of 19th-century business districts linger in a few pockets around the state - Seattle's Pioneer Square, Port Townsend's Water Street and Bellingham's Fairhaven. All resulted from the boom and bust cycles of the 1890s, brought about by the building of the transcontinental railroad.
Fairhaven was going to be the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, but the major railroad terminus never came and the business district languished until 1973 when restoration efforts began.
Visit Fairhaven today and you'll find several blocks of handsome buildings of the Romanesque Revival style popular in the Midwest in the 19th century and brought ...