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Ballard is a neighborhood in northwestern Seattle, Washington, United States.Formerly an independent city, the City of Seattle's official boundaries define it as bounded to the north by Crown Hill (N.W. 85th Street), to the east by Greenwood, Phinney Ridge and Fremont (along 3rd Avenue N.W.), to the south by the Lake Washington Ship Canal, and to the west by Puget Sound's Shilshole Bay. [1]
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 ...
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The Ballard Avenue Historic District is a section of downtown Ballard in Seattle, Washington state, US, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 (ID #76001885). [1] The district consists of Ballard Avenue N.W. between N.W. Market Street and N.W. Dock Place, and is located near to and along Salmon Bay .
Crown Hill. Crown Hill is a neighborhood in the city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington.. The neighborhood is bounded on the south by N.W. 85th Street, beyond which is Loyal Heights & Whittier Heights, followed by Ballard; on the east by 8th Avenue N.W., beyond which is Greenwood; on the north by NW 105th Street, beyond which are (from east to west) Broadview, Carkeek Park, and Blue ...
These three grid patterns (due north, 32 degrees west of north, and 49 degrees west of north) are the result of a disagreement between David Swinson "Doc" Maynard, whose land claim lay south of Yesler Way, and Arthur A. Denny and Carson D. Boren, whose land claims lay to the north (with Henry Yesler and his mill soon brought in between Denny and the others): [2] Denny and Boren preferred that ...
Golden Gardens Park is a public park in Ballard, a neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The park includes wetlands, beaches, hiking trails, and picnic and playground areas. The park's bathhouse was designated a historic landmark by the City of Seattle in 2005.
The Ballard Building is a historic building in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Washington.It was built by the Fraternal Order of Eagles in the 1920s. [1] [2] The terracotta building has housed a community hospital, restaurants and other businesses, [3] including a music venue called the Backstage, which closed in 1998.