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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]
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 .
Built in 1917, the Ballard Bridge is one of the oldest examples in the state of a double-leaf bascule bridge. [8] It spans Salmon Bay in the Lake Washington Ship Canal, connecting the neighborhood of Ballard with Queen Anne and Magnolia. [12] Also part of the Historic Bridges and Tunnels in Washington Thematic Resource listing [8] 18: Ballard ...
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.
The Ballard-Howe House is a historic residence located in the neighborhood of Queen Anne in Seattle, Washington. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 26, 1979. It was one of the first Colonial Revival -style homes built in the Seattle area that remains today.
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 ...
The National Nordic Museum (previously Nordic Heritage Museum and then Nordic Museum) is a museum in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States, dedicated to the Nordic history, art, culture, and the heritage of the area's Nordic immigrants. It was founded in 1980 as the Nordic Heritage Museum, moved into a permanent ...
Among their many surviving buildings in Seattle are the University Heights School (first portion built 1902), now a community center; the William Walker House (built 1906–1907, also known as "Hill-Crest") in the Washington Park neighborhood, now the official residence of the president of the University of Washington; the First Church of ...