The Wedgwood Ale House, 8515 35th Ave NE, closed on December 28, 2023.  The property was sold and the new owner would not renew the lease for the tenant, the Ale House business.

The iconic Wedgwood Ale House started its life as a cafe serving 3.2% alcohol-content beer in 1933 at the end of Prohibition, then for many years it was Hansen’s Tavern.

When Mr. Hansen remodeled the building circa 1946, he renamed it Wedgwood Tavern.  It was the first business to use this name which Mr. Hansen got from the nearby Wedgwood housing development being built by Albert Balch.  After the Wedgwood Tavern chose this name, it “caught on” to become the name of the neighborhood.