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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
The Hara Family in Seattle
By 1910 there were about 13,000 Japanese immigrants in the state of Washington. Many of these worked in lumber mills, railroad construction crews, or in agricultural work. Of that number, about 6,000 lived in Seattle. Japanese in the City of … 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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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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The Adams of Ravenna Orchard in Seattle
This blog post will tell of an African-American couple, Charles & Nora Adams, who came to live in northeast Seattle in 1912. Charles & Nora Adams were among the early residents just north of Calvary Cemetery on NE 55th Street. … Continue reading
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The Bentons of Ravenna Orchard in Seattle
The Benton family arrived in Seattle in the early 1900s and lived on 29th Ave NE in what is now the Ravenna-Bryant neighborhood, near Bryant School. Beginning in 1906, the Bentons became real estate investors who sold lots and built … Continue reading
Wedgwood in Seattle History 