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From Ravenna to LaVilla: the NE Seattle Tool Library
The NE Seattle Tool Library is a community-based nonprofit organization for sharing tools and knowledge of how-to-fix-it. The Tool Library has been very successful in its mission and in June 2018 it moved from its original site, 2415 NE 80th … Continue reading
Gas Stations and Open Space in Wedgwood: the Morningside Substation
Even in the short history of the Wedgwood neighborhood in northeast Seattle, there are some sites which have had multiple different buildings and uses over time. One such site is the northwest corner of NE 86th Street on 35th Ave … Continue reading
Fremont in Seattle: Street Names and Neighborhood Boundaries
Fremont in Seattle began as a planned community after investors purchased the land and filed a plat map in May 1888. A “plat” is any defined area of land for which a plan of lots and streets is laid out. … Continue reading
The Fremont Neighborhood in Seattle: Why the Name?
Each neighborhood of Seattle proudly waves the banner of its unique name, and yet many were named in a similar way: by real estate investors. Fremont in Seattle was also named by real estate investors. What made the Seattle … Continue reading
Balch’s Office Buildings in Wedgwood
In 1940 the Wedgwood neighborhood did not yet exist in northeast Seattle. There were vast tracts of undeveloped land and except for Hansen’s Tavern at NE 85th Street, there were no other businesses at that intersection on 35th Ave NE. … Continue reading
Wedgwood’s Commercial Intersections
In early years before the Wedgwood neighborhood in northeast Seattle acquired its identity, it did not have a commercial center on 35th Ave NE at NE 85th Street as it does today. In the 1920s there was much more residential … Continue reading
A Walk Through Wedgwood History
Take a Walk Through Wedgwood History with me, Valarie, on any/all Saturdays in September 2015. We will meet under the Safeway sign, 35th Ave NE at the corner of NE 75th Street at 10 AM. We will look at the … Continue reading
Names in the Neighborhood: LaVilla
In March 1945 during the final battles of World War Two in Europe, a homesick soldier wrote a letter to the Seattle Daily Times newspaper. Lieutenant Ralph A. Penington, age 34, was with the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division in Italy. … Continue reading
The AYPE and the Growth of Northeast Seattle
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world’s fair held in 1909 on the campus of the University of Washington in northeast Seattle. After the move of the university to its present site in 1895, the AYPE of 1909 was the … Continue reading
From Morningside to Wedgwood Presbyterian Church
In the 1920s and 1930s before Wedgwood acquired its name, its sense of identity and defined boundaries, the name Morningside was often used for the neighborhood. Beginning in 1913 the Morningside Heights plat on the west side of 35th Ave … Continue reading
Wedgwood in Seattle History 