The Henry Art Gallery in almost unrecognizable form back in 1927.
When Horace Chapin Henry arrived in Seattle in 1891, the city was his Olympia oyster. A farmer’s son who’d fought for the Union at Gettysburg and then nearly died from tuberculosis after the war, the double survivor moved about as far away as possible from his hometown of Bennington, Vermont. Henry landed here with his family just two years after the Great Seattle Fire. With his pockets well lined by the success of his railroad construction company, he was in good shape to participate in Seattle’s new era of restoration and swift expansion.
He’d chosen Seattle
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