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Category Archives: Neighborhood features
Wedgwood’s Tree Controversies
Tree-advocates of the Wedgwood neighborhood in northeast Seattle are working to prevent the unnecessary destruction of trees. This site, 8314 28th Ave NE, is two houses south of Wedgwood School/NE 85th Street, where a stand of Western Red Cedar trees … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment, Neighborhood History, Seattle, Trees
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Names in the Neighborhood: Meadowbrook
Meadowbrook began as the name for the golf course which opened in 1932 on the former Fischer Farm property, present site of Nathan Hale High School on NE 110th Street. Gradually other entities, including real estate developers, adopted the Meadowbrook … Continue reading
Come Sit Awhile: Harry Murfitt’s Bench
A favorite saying of Harry Murfitt, 9125 35th Ave NE, was to invite friends & family to “come sit awhile” for fellowship. Today Harry’s bench memorializes his life and his legacy in the Wedgwood neighborhood.
Wedgwood Neighborhood Business District Trivia Quiz 2024
Over the past one hundred years since Wedgwood began to develop a commercial district, the types of businesses have changed. Some types of businesses have disappeared from Wedgwood, such as a hardware store, appliance store and women’s dress shop. Some … Continue reading
Community Life in Pinehurst in Seattle
North Seattle neighborhoods like Pinehurst grew slowly from the 1920s until after 1945, when a post-War-Two housing boom began. Once the neighborhood really started to grow, residents knew they would have to preserve space for community resources such as parks … Continue reading
The Pinehurst Safeway Store in Seattle
The present site of the Pinehurst Safeway grocery store, on 15th Ave NE between NE 123rd to NE 125th Streets, once had a cluster of semi-industrial buildings including a lumber yard and a dairy processing plant with a company office. … Continue reading
The Business District of Pinehurst in Seattle
The Pinehurst neighborhood in Seattle was named by two men, its landowner and a real estate salesman, in 1926. William Hartranft and George Spencer had known each other since 1889 when each came to Washington Territory and taught school in … Continue reading
Names in the Neighborhood: Pinehurst in Seattle
Pinehurst in Seattle started out as the name for a plat of land on the east side of 15th Ave NE, between NE 115th to 125th Streets. Many Seattle neighborhoods acquired their names in this way, as a plat which … Continue reading
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Tagged Neighborhood History, Seattle
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The Nortons of Ravenna-Bryant in Seattle
It has been said of early Seattleites that no matter their original vocation, once they got to Seattle they went into the business of real estate. Land was available in and around Seattle so that those who invested in property … Continue reading
McAdoo, Architect, Exhibit at the University of Washington
In honor of Black History Month in February 2024, a new exhibit, Modern Architecture Activism: The Life and Work of Benjamin F. McAdoo, Jr., will be on view February 1st through March 15th at the University of Washington’s Gould Gallery … Continue reading
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Tagged Neighborhood History, Seattle
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Wedgwood in Seattle History 