Editing University of Washington (section)

===19th century relocation===
By the time [[Washington (state)|Washington state]] entered the [[United States|Union]] in 1889, both Seattle and the university had grown substantially. Washington's total undergraduate enrollment increased from 30 to nearly 300 students, and the campus's relative isolation in downtown Seattle faced encroaching development. A special legislative committee, headed by UW graduate [[Edmond Meany]], was created to find a new campus to better serve the growing student population and faculty. The committee eventually selected a site on the northeast of [[Downtown, Seattle, Washington|downtown Seattle]] called [[Union Bay (Seattle, Washington)|Union Bay]], which was the land of the [[Duwamish people|Duwamish]], and the legislature appropriated funds for its purchase and construction.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/278 |title=University of Washington moves from downtown Seattle to present University District campus in 1895. |access-date=June 2, 2023 |archive-date=June 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602221328/https://www.historylink.org/File/278 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1895, the university relocated to the new campus by moving into the newly built [[Denny Hall]]. The University Regents tried and failed to sell the old campus, eventually settling with leasing the area. This later became one of the university's most valuable pieces of real estate in modern-day Seattle, generating millions in annual revenue with what is now called the [[Metropolitan Tract (Seattle)|Metropolitan Tract]]. The original Territorial University building was torn down in 1908, and its former site now houses the [[Fairmont Olympic Hotel]].

The sole-surviving remnants of Washington's first building are four {{convert|24|ft|adj=on}}, white, hand-fluted cedar, Ionic columns. They were salvaged by [[Edmond S. Meany]], one of the university's first graduates and former head of its history department. Meany and his colleague, Dean Herbert T. Condon, dubbed the columns as "Loyalty," "Industry," "Faith", and "Efficiency", or "LIFE." The columns now stand in the [[Sylvan Grove Theater and Columns|Sylvan Grove Theater]].<ref>{{cite book |chapter=The University of Washington's Early Years |title=No Finer Site: The University of Washington's Early Years On Union Bay |chapter-url=http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/collections/exhibits/site/early |publisher=University of Washington |access-date=April 29, 2015 |archive-date=February 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204022757/http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/collections/exhibits/site/early |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition - Rainier Vista.jpg|thumb|Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition on the UW campus toward [[Mount Rainier]] in 1909]]