Queen Anne Pool has always been the kind of neighborhood spot where kids learn to swim, neighbors swap gossip in the sauna and nobody gives the brick walls a second look. Now those same walls are officially carrying a bigger story. The modest midcentury building was designed by Benjamin F. McAdoo Jr., the first Black architect licensed in Washington, and preservation advocates say its design is emerging as a public marker of access and civic memory. On Tuesday, the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods signaled that a designating ordinance for the pool has been referred to the Seattle City Council for consideration.
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