Smith Tower (SY4513) - Seattle, WA - U.S. Benchmarks on Waymarking.com

Photos taken on 8 October 2023. The benchmark is located at the very top of the tower as the flagpole mast. It can be seen from all over the city on a clear day, standing at just over 480 feet tall.


Taken from Wikipedia, "Smith Tower is a skyscraper in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. Completed in 1914, the 38-story, 484 ft (148 m) tower was among the tallest skyscrapers outside New York City at the time of its completion. It was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River until the completion of the Kansas City Power & Light Building in 1931. It remained the tallest building on the U.S. West Coast for nearly half a century, until the Space Needle overtook it in 1962.

The tower is named after its builder, the firearm and typewriter magnate Lyman Cornelius Smith (unrelated to Horace Smith of Smith & Wesson), but its construction was largely overseen by his son Burns Lyman Smith after his father's 1910 death and would remain under the ownership of the Smith family into the 1940s. It was originally known as the L.C. Smith Building until the Smith Tower became its official name in 1929. It was designated as a Seattle landmark in 1984."

Condition: Mark found in good condition Designation: SEATTLE SMITH BUILDING FLAGPOLE Benchmark Agency: other (not included below) Benchmark Agency (if other): N/A Monumentation type: Flagpole Monumentation type (if other): N/A County: King County USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Seattle Special category (optional): Not listed Special Category (if other): N/A Find type: Found by luck/skill/knowledge Web address of this benchmark's datasheet (optional): [Web Link] NGS PID: SY4513 Local database's URL (optional): Not listed

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