Metropolitan Tract

The Cobb Building, 1301–1309 Fourth Avenue, is the only remaining building whose design conforms to the original Howells & Stokes plan for the Metropolitan Tract.

A 1915 advertisement welcoming visitors to what was then known as the "University Tract", but already managed by the Metropolitan Building Company.

Entryway of Fifth Avenue Theater, in the Metropolitan Tract.

Lobby of the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, in the Metropolitan Tract.

The Metropolitan Tract is an area of land in downtown Seattle owned by the University of Washington. Originally covering 10 acres (40,000 m²), the 1962 purchase of land for a garage for the Olympic Hotel expanded the plot to 11 acres (45,000 m²). The Metropolitan Tract is primarily located in a rectangle formed by Seneca St., Third Ave., Union St., and Sixth Ave.