Seattle Police Harbor Patrol Dock, foot of Densmore St., Seattle, Washington. County/parish: King.
Removed from the National Register of Historic Places March 04, 2009. NRIS 70000643.
1 contributing structure.Wawona was an American three-masted, fore-and-aft schooner that sailed from 1897 to 1947 as a lumber carrier and fishing vessel based in Puget Sound. She was one of the last survivors of the sailing schooners in the West Coast lumber trade to San Francisco from Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.
She was an iconic ship representing the Pacific Northwest's maritime history. After a 50-year career at sea, she was laid up for 16 years until efforts to preserve her began in 1963. Purchased in 1964 by Northwest Seaport, she became a museum ship for 45 years at Seattle's Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI), being berthed at their pier at Lake Union Park with continuous restoration efforts until rot and beetle infestations put her beyond repair. Dismantled in 2009, some of her wood and steel was reformed into a sculpture at the MOHAI in 2012 and will be preserved there for the future.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75612586