It was created in the early 1980s and was originally called Market Park. When Seattle architect Victor Steinbrueck passed away at age 73 in 1985, it was named for him by the Seattle Parks Board at the urging of Mayor Charley Royer.
at what became Seattle Center. Still, it made sense to name the park for only Steinbrueck, mainly because it was Steinbrueck who led the grassroots campaign and eventual public vote to save Pike Place Market rather than replace it with something called Pike Place Plaza.
“When a city begins to grow and spread outward, from the edges, the center which was once its glory is in a sense abandoned to time. Then the buildings grow dark and a kind of decay sets in; poorer people move in as the rents fall, and small fringe businesses take the place of once flowering establishments. The district is still too good to tear down and too outmoded to be desirable.
As a young architect in Seattle immediately following World War II, Steinbrueck was immersed in a time of modernism and looking to the future when it came to designing structures; the houses he designed then and, just a few years later, the Space Needle, which he also designed – are cutting edge. But in 1953, Steinbrueck also wrote the first book about the history of Seattle architecture, including Indigenous structures in the 1850s to the modern buildings of the 1950s.
And, Peter Steinbrueck says, saving the Market and helping save Pioneer Square – in an era when historic preservation wasn’t really being applied much to American cities – was not something his father set out to do. What Victor Steinbrueck did makes him one of just a handful of people in this city who “invented” really caring about the history here and, more importantly, doing something to keep that built history vital or to restore its vibrancy as part of the city’s future.
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