'Now & Then': An exhibit of Seattle past

COURTESY OF BILL GREER

THEN: With the Western Lumber Mill behind them, neighborhood children go wading at the southwest corner of Lake Union. The scene dates from 1902 or 1903. Later, this sporting pool was filled in for development.

JEAN SHERRARD

NOW: In the contemporary repeat, Tia and Liana Owen stand near the corner of Eighth Avenue North and Aloha Street.

JEAN SHERRARD

NOW: In 2000 the low reservoir was taken out of service and replaced with underground tanks. The site was developed as an extension of Cal Anderson Park with a fountain, reflecting pools and promenade paths.

ANDERS WILSE / COURTESY OF SEATTLE MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES

THEN: Dragging scoops behind them, horse teams excavate Capitol Hill's "low service reservoir" on Sept. 18, 1899. This and the high reservoir at Volunteer Park were first filled with Cedar River water on Jan. 10, 1901. The old Columbia School at East Mercer Street is top center right. It was renamed Lowell School in 1910.

JEAN SHERRARD

NOW: Jean Sherrard used the Joshua Green Building to make his repeat. The flatiron hotel seen at upper left in the "then" photo held the odd intersection bordered by Westlake, Fourth and Pine. The hotel was reduced to a one-story drugstore then, in the 1980s, razed for the new civic open space facing Westlake Center, created in 1988.

COURTESY OF MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY

THEN: Soon after Westlake Avenue was cut through from Fourth Avenue and Pike Street to the south end of Lake Union in 1907, a photographer from the Webster and Stevens studio took this view north on Westlake from the two-story frame structure that preceded the Joshua Green Building (1913).

JEAN SHERRARD

NOW: The bridge links Seattle's Fremont and Queen Anne neighborhoods. Recently, crews completed a suicide-prevention fence along both sides of the nearly 3,000-foot span.

COURTESY OF MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY

THEN: On March 25, 1931, only days before a completed Aurora Bridge would have captured it in Lake Union for good, the Monongahela and its four masts escaped by tow between the bridge's cantilevers.