Tag Archives: Neighborhood History
Finding House Histories in Wedgwood
Do you know the history of your house? Information about your house, including its age and its setting in the Wedgwood neighborhood of northeast Seattle, can tell you about the house itself and about the people who have lived on … Continue reading
Ship Canal Centennial Boat Parade
July 4, 1917 was the official opening day of the Ballard Locks in Seattle. On that day one hundred years ago, the SS Roosevelt led a marine parade of commercial and pleasure craft through the ship canal into Lake Union. On … Continue reading
Balch and Beyond: New Architecture in Wedgwood
The Wedgwood neighborhood in northeast Seattle acquired its name and identity in the 1940s with the work of developer Albert Balch. Balch filed a plat plan on July 31, 1941 for a forty-acre tract of land (five square blocks) on … Continue reading
Early Architecture in Wedgwood
The history of the Wedgwood neighborhood in northeast Seattle goes back only a little more than one hundred years. Wedgwood was slow to be settled because northeast Seattle was inland, not located on a water resource such as a river … 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
Fremont and Seattle’s Ship Canal
Seattle’s earliest white settlers saw immediately that it would be possible to connect its freshwater lakes to the saltwater Puget Sound by means of a canal. At a Fourth of July picnic in 1854, Thomas Mercer proposed the name of … 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
