Category Archives: School histories
Names in the Neighborhood: from Chelsea to Meadowbrook
In 1961 residents of northeast Seattle petitioned the City to give them some geographic identity by preserving the name “Meadowbrook.” The Meadowbrook Golf Course at NE 110th Street had closed because the property had been purchased by the Seattle School … 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
Lincoln High School in Seattle
A ribbon-cutting and open-house event was held at Seattle’s Lincoln High School on September 3, 2019, as the school celebrated its modernization and renovation. There will be more opportunities for alumni to tour the building — see the Lincoln Lynx … Continue reading
Remembering Shearwater
The Decatur Annex building was on NE 77th Street at the corner of 43rd Ave NE, at the southern end of what is now Decatur School. The little white wood-frame Annex was the last building from the complex of Navy … Continue reading
Wedgwood’s Nathan Eckstein Middle School
In 1919 the Seattle School Board established a new program of “intermediate education” for grades 7, 8 and 9. Up until that time, elementary schools went through the eighth grade and high school was four years. One of the main … Continue reading
The Mock Family and Maple Leaf School
During the hot-weather week of August 12, 1910, The Seattle Daily Times newspaper carried reports of fires across the State of Washington, and one fire which struck closer to home, to the northeast just outside of the Seattle City limits. … Continue reading
Wilson’s Exposition Heights
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a world’s-fair event, attracted people to Seattle even before the fair’s opening date of June 1, 1909. When news of the Exposition plans became known in 1906, people from all over the USA began coming to Seattle … Continue reading
School Day Memories: November 22, 1963
November 22, 1963 is remembered as a turning point in the lives of Baby Boomers who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. Young, vital John F. Kennedy, the first US President to be born in the twentieth century, was … Continue reading
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 the creek named after John Thornton, go here. For an outline of the history of the Thornton Creek watershed and … Continue reading
Oriental Gardens in Meadowbrook
A massive earthquake struck the city of San Francisco in the early morning hours of April 18, 1906. But worse than the damage caused by the earthquake itself were the fires which raged through the city for three days afterward. … Continue reading
