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This 1909 map of Seattle shows many neighborhood names that remain in common use today—for example, Ballard, Fremont, Queen Anne Hill, Capitol Hill, West Seattle, and Beacon Hill—but also many that have fallen out of use—for example, "Ross" and "Edgewater" on either side of Fremont, "Brooklyn" for today's University District, and "Renton Hill" near the confluence of Capitol Hill, First ...
Map of directionals in Seattle. Seattle and King County make systematic use of directionals (such as N for north or NE for northeast) in street names, although residents often omit the directionals when describing addresses in their own neighborhoods. To a lesser degree, street types such as avenue and street are also used systematically. As a ...
One such estate was owned from 1902 to 1916 by a certain up-and-coming dry-goods purveyor by the name of J. Walter Nordstrom, who brought up his young family of three children there, as documented by the Rainier Valley Historical Society in 2017 (the estate was at the 3700 block of South Juneau Street). Unlike most of Seattle, then, the Valley ...
View of downtown Seattle from one of several common greenspaces. High Point is a neighborhood in the Delridge district. It is so named because it contains the highest point in the city of Seattle: Myrtle Reservoir Park at the intersection of 35th Avenue SW and SW Myrtle Street, which is 520 feet (160 m) above sea level. [3]
The City of Seattle does not publish an official neighborhood map, and many neighborhood boundaries in Seattle are somewhat informal. Neighborhoods within the district include: University Park (east from 15th to 25th Avenues NE, north from NE 50th Street to NE Ravenna Boulevard) Greek Row (NE 45th to NE 50th Streets, 15th to 22nd Avenues NE ...
The Seattle Planning Commission adopted that name for the neighborhood in 1947. [2] Plat maps identify four divisions: Lakeridge Division #1 is the easternmost and closest to Lake Washington. Divisions #2, #3, and #4 are located successively higher up the hillside to the west and continue over the ridge top.
Licton Springs or North College Park is a neighborhood in the informal Northgate district of North Seattle.It is bounded by Interstate 5 to the east, beyond which is Maple Leaf neighborhood and the Northgate Mall; Aurora Avenue N to the west, beyond which is Greenwood; N 85th Street to the south, beyond which is Green Lake, and N Northgate Way to the north, beyond which is Haller Lake.
Beacon Hill is a hill and neighborhood in southeastern Seattle, Washington.It is roughly bounded on the west by Interstate 5, on the north by Interstate 90, on the east by Rainier Avenue South, Cheasty Boulevard South, and Martin Luther King Junior Way South, and on the south by the Seattle city boundary.