Category Archives: Neighborhood features
The Trees of October in Wedgwood
Wedgwood in northeast Seattle enjoys the autumn colors of leaves in October and November. Street trees called Flame Ash will turn a deep red along 35th Ave NE. The Flame Ash street trees which line 35th Ave NE were planted … Continue reading
Aretha Curtis and Maple Leaf Gardens
In the years 1915 to 1945 the lives of Americans were bracketed by two world wars with an economic depression in the middle. For a few years in the 1920s, after the First World War and before the stock market … Continue reading
Martha Hawks, Real Estate Agent in Morningside Heights
In the 1920s the (future) Wedgwood neighborhood first began to be known as Morningside Heights, the name of a real estate development. Growth was facilitated by the new Victory Way highway, today’s Lake City Way NE, which made it much … Continue reading
Old-Time Stores and Gas Stations on Sand Point Way NE
Establishment of the Naval Air Station on the shore of Lake Washington in 1927 was the catalyst for street improvements and commercial development along Sand Point Way NE. The City of Seattle officially named Sand Point Way and coordinated with … Continue reading
Sand Point Way NE: Stores and Stations at NE 97th Street
The establishment of the Naval Air Station at Sand Point in the 1920s caused Sand Point Way NE to become an arterial street. Even though the naval base grew slowly at first, its presence caused northeast Seattle to hope for … Continue reading
Names in the Neighborhood: Before There Was A Hawthorne Hills
Part of the fun of blogging is being able to network with other writers. Here I am sharing a wonderful article written by Zach about the northeast Seattle neighborhood of Hawthorne Hills. In the years before a real estate company … Continue reading
Along the Road: From Pontiac to Sand Point Way NE
There was not yet a road called Sand Point Way NE when the first commercial activities began at about NE 70th Street on Lake Washington. In the 1880s Edward F. Lee had a boat-building shop there, and Osborn M. Merritt … Continue reading
Names in the Neighborhood: Chelsea and Lake City
Seattle north of the ship canal has many neighborhoods which derived their names from plats of land development. Sometimes the naming was deliberate, such as Laurelhurst, in which the developers reconfigured the streets and promoted the sale of houses in … Continue reading
Names in the Neighborhood: Chelsea Becomes a School Street
Hugh Benton and Victor Palmer were young attorneys who arrived to make their fortunes in Seattle in the early 1900s. In those days attorneys would often expedite property transactions because the category of real estate agent as a profession had … Continue reading
Names in the Neighborhood: Chelsea
NE 110th Street in the Meadowbrook neighborhood of northeast Seattle is today dominated by two large school buildings: Nathan Hale High School on the south side of NE 110th Street and Jane Addams Middle School on the north side. Hidden … Continue reading
