Tours
Discover the Future with a Look at the Past
“I walk by here every day and I never saw that before.”
Some version of this familiar comment, which our tour guides hear on a regular basis, gets to the essence of why Seattle Architecture Foundation (SAF) exists. Through entertaining and informative guided walking tours, SAF awakens people to the profound influence of the environment that surrounds them, and inspires them to get involved in shaping its future. Through active participation with our built environment the shape of our communities will better reflect who we are and who we wish to be.
Tours Expand!
If you're a SAF regular, you’ll notice a big change this year. SAF now offers tours on most Saturdays throughout the year and on Thursdays and Fridays. Major holidays are excluded.
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Tours by Date Range
Tours by Month
Three-hour Tours
Two-hour Tours
- Art + Architecture: Let the Streets be Your Museum!
- Historic Skyscrapers: Concrete, Steel, Glass and Egos
- Harvard Belmont District: The Rich Life on Capitol Hill
- Family Tour: Eye Spy Seattle
- South Lake Union: Extreme Makeover
- Modern Skyscrapers: What's New?
- Architecture 101: Windows on Seattle's Style
- That's Entertainment: Glittering Palaces of Illusion
- Design Details: Lions, Griffins, & Walruses, Oh My!
- Art Deco: Diamonds & Gold
- Ballard: Community Meets Urbanity
- Greatest Hits: Chart Toppers and Heart-Stoppers
- A-Y-P Exposition Centennial: Come Back to the Fair
- Madrona: Not in Our Backyard
- Pioneer Square: Out of the Ashes
- International District: Diversity Defined
- Pike/Pine: Cars, Bars and Dead Rock Stars
- Friday Art Deco Tour