Older Than deck / Buildings and landmarks
Seattle Central Library
Present building opened
2004
A glass-and-steel library with a spiral of book stacks.
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Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“the Central Library opened on May 23, 2004”The Seattle Public Library — institutional Central Library history: source, retrieved 2026-11-01; quote re-found by the server check
“New Central Library opens in downtown Seattle on May 23, 2004.”HistoryLink.org — Walt Crowley and Alyssa Burrows, Essay4304: source, retrieved 2026-11-01; quote re-found by the server check
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