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The Ida’s Inn Beer Parlor in Wedgwood
On January 12, 2020, a car swerved off the road and struck the northernmost corner of the building at 7500 35th Ave NE, in the block to the north of the Wedgwood Safeway. The incident has caused renewed interest in … Continue reading
Posted in 7528 35th Ave NE, businesses, farms, Immigrant heritage, taverns
Tagged Neighborhood History, Seattle, WPLongform
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Chickens and Cows in Wedgwood: the Schultz and Sherman families
In the early 1900s very few people lived in the Wedgwood area of northeast Seattle. Many who did come were immigrants or first-generation Americans from Germany, Scandinavian countries or the Netherlands. Others came from across the United States, hoping to get a … Continue reading
Posted in 3202 NE 75th Street, Houses, Immigrant heritage
Tagged Neighborhood History, Seattle
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A Dutchman in Wedgwood History
Mr. John Guisebertus Hoetmer and Miss Anna Pauline Timmerman were married in Holland in 1906, shortly before joining a group of twenty people immigrating to America. (Holland is a western province of what is now the Netherlands.) Most of the … Continue reading
Bud Gagnon’s Wedgewood Pharmacy
Bud & Dolly Gagnon were the owners of the WedgEwood Pharmacy from 1952 to 1972 (spelled with that extra “e!!”) The Gagnons saw the drugstore business evolve from old-time traditions into the streamlined service of the modern era. Note the … Continue reading
Morningside Heights in Wedgwood: Prohibition, the Great Depression, and Walter S. Wood
This is the second article about the life of Walter S. Wood, an early resident of Morningside Heights in Wedgwood. In 1927 Walter Wood turned forty years old and he was going full-steam ahead with all of his varied businesses … Continue reading
Posted in 9428 25th Ave NE, Houses, Plat names
Tagged Great Depression of 1930s, Neighborhood History, Prohibition, Seattle
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Life in Morningside Heights, Wedgwood: Walter S. Wood
In the early 1900s the Wedgwood neighborhood did not yet have a name and the area was quite rural. The Morningside Heights plat from NE 90th to 95th Streets, 25th to 35th Avenues NE, was one of the early sections of Wedgwood to … Continue reading
Posted in 9428 25th Ave NE, Architecture, Houses, Plat names
Tagged 1920s in Wedgwood, Craftsman bungalow, Neighborhood History, Seattle, Victory Way
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The Morningside Heights plat in Wedgwood
Prior to the 1940s, the future Wedgwood neighborhood had been known as Morningside. The name came from the promotion of the Morningside Heights development close to NE 95th Street. The neighborhood name “Wedgwood” is the legacy of 1940s developer Albert … Continue reading
Dahl Playfield in Wedgwood
Many aspects of Wedgwood as we know it today have been shaped by the processes of community action. Dahl Playfield at 7700 25th Ave NE is a good example. The story of Dahl Playfield began in 1947, when eighty parents … Continue reading
Posted in Dahl Playfield, parks
Tagged Don Sherwood Park History files, Neighborhood History, Ravenna Swamp, Seattle
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Earl G. Park, Architect in Wedgwood
On the census of the year 1900 in Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, seventeen-year-old Earl G. Park listed his occupation as “architect.” Two years later, Earl Park was in Seattle in the employ of a busy and successful architectural firm, Bebb … Continue reading
John R. Nevins, architect in Wedgwood
John R. Nevins was an architect and civil engineer who worked in Seattle from 1902 to 1932. With business partner Earl G. Park, he platted the Nevins & Park Addition in Wedgwood, and Nevins lived on that block from 1916 to … Continue reading
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