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Coordinates: 47°35′42.5″N 122°19′37.4″W / 47.595139°N 122.327056°W / 47.595139; -122.327056 (U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office)
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U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office
US Immigrant Station and Assay Office Seattle, now Inscape, in 2014.
U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office is located in Washington (state)
U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office
U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office
U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office is located in the United States
U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office
U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office
Location815 Airport Way, S., Seattle, Washington
Coordinates47°35′42.5″N 122°19′37.4″W / 47.595139°N 122.327056°W / 47.595139; -122.327056 (U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office)
Area1.2 acres (0.49 ha)
Built1929 (1929)
Architectural styleNeo-Classic
NRHP reference No.79002542[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 1, 1979

The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office Seattle is a four-story neoclassical style building located at 815 Airport Way South in Seattle, Washington. It opened in 1932 as an immigration detention and processing station and assay office. It is now known as Inscape Arts, and houses approximately 125 artists, craftspeople, studios, non-profit organizations, and a Shakespearean theater company.

In its early life, the building was used mostly to enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act. The top floor housed assay operations until 1955. The building closed as an immigration and detention center in 2004, when the Northwest Detention Center opened in Tacoma. It was sold to investors in 2008 for $4.4 million[2], and reopened as Inscape Arts in 2010 after renovations.[3]

The Wing Luke Museum’s permanent exhibition Voices of the Immigration Station includes placards and other interpretive material throughout the building.[4]

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ http://www.seattlemag.com/article/seattle-s-historic-ins-building-now-artist-studios
  3. ^ https://seattle.curbed.com/2017/10/31/16584504/history-ins-building-inscape-arts-seattle
  4. ^ https://www.thestranger.com/art-and-performance-spring-2018/2018/03/14/25905597/inscape-used-to-be-a-prison-for-immigrants-now-its-a-home-for-artists


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