First built in 1882, Colman Dock has overcome multiple adversities during its long history, from the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 to a collision with the Alameda, a steel-hulled ship, in 1912. Today, ...

For more than a half-century, Seattle’s Colman Dock ferry terminal at Pier 52 clung to the edge of the Elliot Bay waterfront like a hulking barnacle. Gray and architecturally mundane, it successfully ...