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Seattle has many urban stairways, with quite a few of them obscured and only known by the people who use them. Queen Anne Hill, which accounts for more than a hundred of the 550 stairways in Seattle, has its own map of the stairways.
To proud Queen Anne resident, architect and newly minted mapmaker Thomas Horton, there are some stairways in Venice that are “almost” as cool as Queen Anne’s steps.
“One of the jokes on my map is that the stairways are ‘oft’ pedestrian,” Horton says. “Obviously, they’re for feet, but the other meaning of pedestrian is mundane or everyday, and this is not always true with stairways … sometimes they’re really quite exciting.”
Horton likes the “hidden in plain sight” quality of Queen Anne stairways — how the delightful is revealed in one simple backward glance over the shoulder on a well-placed landing; yielding an unexpected view, or framing a historic detail hidden in stone.
You can buy the map for $5 from Queen Anne Books or buy a poster-sized version for $10.
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