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Names in the Neighborhood: from Decatur to Thornton Creek
Author’s note: This article is about the name of a school in the Wedgwood neighborhood. If you are looking for an outline of the history of the Thornton Creek watershed and The Confluence at Meadowbrook, go here. The US Navy … Continue reading
From Wedgwood to Meadowbrook
In the 1920s and 1930s the (future) Wedgwood area lacked a strong name association in part because it lacked a school to give the neighborhood an identity. But just to the north, on NE 100th Street at the corner of … Continue reading
From Yesler to Wedgwood
The intersection of NE 85th Street on 35th Avenue NE is the heart of the Wedgwood neighborhood and is its main commercial center. Today it is difficult to imagine that any corner of this intersection would be vacant, and yet … Continue reading
The Wedgwood That Never Was: Charles H. Baker’s Land Investment
Charles H. Baker is a little-known early Seattleite though his legacy affects every person living in Seattle today. Baker conceived of and built the electrical generating plant at Snoqualmie Falls which began producing electricity on July 31, 1899, and which … Continue reading
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Tagged electricity in Seattle, Neighborhood History, Seattle, streetcars, WP Longform
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Houses in Wedgwood: from Craftsman to Balch
All of Wedgwood didn’t come within the Seattle City limits until 1954, and up until that time the neighborhood retained its rural character. Wedgwood was thinly populated and there were many vacant lots whose owners were holding land as an investment. Many … Continue reading
The Eastwood and Wedgwood Community Clubs
During the years of World War Two from 1941 to 1945 all Seattleites had some concerns about the possibility of bombing, since Seattle is a coastal city. For this reason people took civil defense training and organized their neighborhoods to help one another in … Continue reading
Roy Erford and the Euphonious Election District Names
Wedgwoodians of the 1940s may have been puzzled to learn that their voting district was called Sonora, which is a place name in Mexico. Those living north of NE 85th Street and east of 35th Ave NE were in the … Continue reading
Wedgwood’s Bus Company Lawsuit
One of Wedgwood’s biggest controversies, a lawsuit over the ownership of a bus company, is remembered by few people because the dispute began back in 1937.
Posted in Controversies, name of the neighborhood, School histories
Tagged Neighborhood History, Seattle, WPLongform
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Wedgwood’s University Unitarian Church
In 2018-2019 the University Unitarian Church congregation vacated their building so that it could be renovated. The congregation met elsewhere while the work was done on the UUC building located on 35th Ave NE at the southeast corner of NE … Continue reading
What about the “E” in Wedgwood?
The Wedgwood neighborhood in Seattle took its name from a real estate development which was started in 1941 by Albert Balch. The naming happened gradually after Balch’s Wedgwood group of houses became well-known. In an April 1956 interview for the … Continue reading
Wedgwood in Seattle History 