The organization is housed in Seattle City Hall.

[4] At this time, the archival collection had at least been scanned, but many of the pieces were low quality, and the decision was made to prioritize 3000 of the 1.5 million pieces in the collection for high quality digital preservation.

[4] Most of the archive's pictures from this time period were taken by city workers and document civil engineering.

[4] From its founding until the present, Scott Cline has served as director of the archives.

[5] Cline studied history at Portland State University.