(upbeat music) - I'm Starla Sampaco in the Crosscut KCTS nine newsroom.

(mellow music) The city of Seattle will likely approve the formal preservation of the Cayton-Revels house on Capitol Hill.

A home once owned and occupied in the late 19th and early 20th century by a remarkable couple, Horace Cayton and his wife, Susie Revels.

As Cognis Knut Berger writes, the nomination is about far more than preserving a charming Victorian home.

Cayton was the most prominent African-American in the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the century He was an influential publisher whose newspaper, the Seattle Republican was said to be the second most read in the city in the 1890s.

Susie Revels was possibly the first female editor in Seattle.

In 1910, however, a racist and segregationist atmosphere took hold in Seattle and the Caytons moved to the central district.

The newspaper folded but the Cayton Revels story is being rediscovered and their home still stands in much of its original condition as part of that remarkable legacy.

I'm Starla Sampaco.

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