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The Conroy family in Wedgwood
Sam & Mary Ellen Conroy came to the Wedgwood neighborhood of Seattle in about 1915. They lived a rural lifestyle of using draft horses for construction and road work, and they helped nurture the Chapel of St. Ignatius which met … Continue reading
Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Wedgwood, Seattle
A Catholic church was founded in Wedgwood in 1929 by the Jesuits of Seattle University. They bought a forty-acre tract of land with the intention of moving Seattle University to the site, but only one month after the land purchase, … Continue reading
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Tagged 8900 35th Avenue NE, Neighborhood History, Seattle
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A Victorian in Wedgwood
The Wedgwood neighborhood does not have any Victorian houses built in the 1800s, but there is one house, completed in 2007, built in the Queen Anne style which was popular more than a century ago in Seattle. The house is … Continue reading
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Tagged Neighborhood History, Seattle
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From Herkenrath to Hunter’s
The Wedgwood Post Office at 7714 35th Ave NE and the Hunter Tree Farm at 7744 are on the former site of the Herkenrath house, built in 1926.
The McVicar Hardware Store in Wedgwood
After Grant McVicar finished service with the Navy in World War Two, he returned to Seattle and went into business with his father. The McVicars rented a brand-new storefront on the west side of 35th Ave NE between NE 85th … Continue reading
Posted in businesses, name of the neighborhood
Tagged Halloween, Neighborhood History, post office, Seattle
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Wedgwood’s First Business District
The development of Wedgwood’s first business district began with J.W. (Joe) Shauer, an enterprising businessman who moved his family from Greenwood to Wedgwood in 1918. Mr. Shauer (pronounced shower) paid $1,000 for an acre of property on the west side … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s in Wedgwood, Neighborhood History, Prohibition, Seattle
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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
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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
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