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Morningside Heights in Wedgwood: Prohibition, the Great Depression, and Walter S. Wood
This is the second article about the life of Walter S. Wood, an early resident of Morningside Heights in Wedgwood. In 1927 Walter Wood turned forty years old and he was going full-steam ahead with all of his varied businesses … Continue reading
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Tagged Great Depression of 1930s, Neighborhood History, Prohibition, Seattle
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Life in Morningside Heights, Wedgwood: Walter S. Wood
In the early 1900s the Wedgwood neighborhood did not yet have a name and the area was quite rural. The Morningside Heights plat from NE 90th to 95th Streets, 25th to 35th Avenues NE, was one of the early sections of Wedgwood to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s in Wedgwood, Craftsman bungalow, Neighborhood History, Seattle, Victory Way
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Northwest Modern Architecture in Wedgwood
Modernist architecture is defined partly by its time period, from the 1930s to about 1970, and modern style also means buildings which are without historical reference to European traditions. For example, the original Wedgwood group of houses, built by developer … Continue reading
Earl G. Park, Architect in Wedgwood
On the census of the year 1900 in Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, seventeen-year-old Earl G. Park listed his occupation as “architect.” Two years later, Earl Park was in Seattle in the employ of a busy and successful architectural firm, Bebb … Continue reading
John R. Nevins, architect in Wedgwood
John R. Nevins was an architect and civil engineer who worked in Seattle from 1902 to 1932. With business partner Earl G. Park, he platted the Nevins & Park Addition in Wedgwood, and Nevins lived on that block from 1916 to … Continue reading
The Nevins and Park Plat in Wedgwood
The Nevins & Park plat in Wedgwood is five acres of land, one long block from NE 82nd to 85th Streets, 28th to 30th Avenues NE. To file a “plat” means to register the land with King County … Continue reading
A Farm Life in Wedgwood
Wedgwood didn’t acquire its identity until the 1940s when developer Albert Balch’s name for his housing development caught on as the name for the whole neighborhood. In the early 1900s when the future Wedgwood area was still outside the Seattle city … Continue reading
The Big White House on the Hill in Wedgwood
In the 1930s in Wedgwood there were mostly small houses and very few big houses, due to the difficulty of heating and that smaller houses were less expensive to build. One big house which was very visible was perched on the … Continue reading
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Tagged the 1930s in Wedgwood
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The Scout Camp in Wedgwood
In the 1920s more people began to move into the Wedgwood area but there were still many large tracts of vacant, undeveloped land. Sometime during those early years Scouts began going to Wedgwood’s Maple Creek Ravine for camping and climbing … Continue reading
Wedgwood’s Big Green Hundred-Year-Old House
A house which is one hundred years old can hold a lot of history – and some mystery. Although we have traced the ownership history of the Big Green House at 7321 35th Ave NE, researchers have not been able … Continue reading
Wedgwood in Seattle History 