Queen Anne Hill is a prosperous neighborhood and geographical feature in Seattle, northwest of downtown. This neighborhood is located on the highest hill in town, with a maximum height of 456 feet (139 m). It covers an area of ​​7.3 square kilometers (2.8 m²), and has a population of about 28,000. Queen Anne is bordered by Belltown to the south, Lake Union to the east, the Washington Lake Ship Channel to the north and Interbay to the west.
The hill became a popular place for the city's early economic and cultural elite to build their mansions, and the name came from the architectural style typical of many early homes.
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Geography and history
Location and limit
Queen Anne is bordered on the north by Fremont Cut from the Washington Lake Ship Canal, beyond that is Fremont; on the west by 15th and Elliott AvenuesÃ, West, beyond that is Interbay, Magnolia, and Elliott Bay; on the east by Lake Union and Aurora Avenue North, beyond that is Westlake. As an environmental toponym, Queen Anne may include Lower Queen Anne, also known as Uptown, in the southern hill base, just north and west of the Seattle Center. Whether or not the Lower Queen Anne is considered a separate environmental issue in setting the Queen Anne's southern boundary, West Mercer Street or Denny Way.
Queen Anne can be reached from Interstate 5 via Mercer Exit (Exit 167). The main streets of the neighborhood are Gilman Drive West, 3rd Avenue West, Queen Anne Avenue North, Boston Street, and a set of roads, collectively known as Queen Anne Boulevard, a circle around the hilltop and reflecting a comprehensive boulevard design in corporate style architecture of Olmsted Brothers. The design is never fully implemented, but remains part of the Seattle Garden System.
While Queen Anne stands out in Seattle geography because of its proximity to downtown and three television broadcast towers, the highest point in town, 520 feet (160 m) above sea level, is in West Seattle. The Queen Anne slope is home to seven of the city's twenty steepest roads and 120 pedestrian steps.
Demographics
The Queen Anne Anne , Queen Anne Anne and the Queen Anne Anne i> Uptown ), Queen Anne has about 19,000 households and a total population of about 36,000. Queen Anne is disproportionately populated by unmarried, white, and young adults. The population is more homogeneous racially and better educated than Seattle as a whole.
Significant events
The Vashon Glacier carved the topography of Queen Anne Hill more than 13,000 years ago, and human habitation in the area began about 3000 years ago. When the White settlers arrived in the mid-19th century, the Duwamish tribe maintained a seasonal presence in and around Queen Anne.
The White Queen Anne settlement came from the arrival of the Denny Party in West Seattle's Alki Point in November 1851. In 1853, David Denny plotted a claim on 320 acres (130Ã, ha) of land called Duwamish < The grasslands, now known as Queen Anne Bottom, are bound by Elliott Bay to the west, Lake Union to the east, Mercer Street to the north, and to Denny Way to the south. Denny called the "Potlach Meadows" area. The construction of the hills, referred to at various times North of Seattle, Galer Hill, and Eden Hill, was slow. Then the windstorm in 1875 leveled thousands of trees in Queen Anne, making the forests ahead of time more attractive to settlements. The hill was called "Queen Anne" by 1885, after queen Anne's houses dominated the area. The arrival of the Northern Pacific Railway (1883) and Seattle, the Lake Shore and the Eastern Railway (1887), the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, and the opening of the three cable car lines to the top of the hill (1902), further boosted the construction of housing and businesses.
The opening of the Lake Washington Ship Ship in 1917, and the Fremont and Ballard Bridge above it, made the area more attractive to the maritime and wood industry, and connected the Queen Anne to the people in the north. On the south side of the hill, the 1927 completion of the Civic Center (with auditoriums, ice rinks and soccer fields) on David Denny's Potlach Meadows field brought residents from all cities to Queen Anne for concerts and sporting events. The first TV broadcast in the Pacific Northwest came from the KRSC facility on 3rd Avenue N. in Galer Street in 1948. In 1949, KING-TV purchased KRSC; this is the first transaction in the country's history. Three years later, KOMO-TV set up its own tower, and KIRO followed it in 1958.
"The 1962 Seattle World's Fair may be the single most transformational single event in Queen Anne's history," according to historians Florence K. Lentz and Mimi Sheridan. Named Century 21 Exposition , the exhibition expanded on the Civic Center's existing infrastructure on the old oath baba'kwoh . After the fair, the land becomes the Seattle Center, home to the Space Needle, the Pacific Science Center, the Experience Music Project, the Science Fiction Museum, and the Hall of Fame, Seattle's north monorail and KeyArena terminals.
Seattle SuperSonics began playing at the Seattle Center Coliseum in 1967. Seattle Thunderbirds hockey team began playing next to it at Mercer Street Arena in 1977. The Seattle Storm basketball team began playing at KeyArena in 2000.
Until 1964, the area had a sizable family population with children to motivate the opening of McClure Middle School, but in 1981 the decline in the family caused the school system to close the Queen Anne Middle School, North Queen Anne Elementary School and the West. Queen Anne Elementary School.
Assistant US Attorney Thomas C. Wales was shot at his home in Queen Anne's neighborhood on October 11, 2001, dying the next day of his injuries. The murder remains unsolved.
Landmarks
Queen Anne is home to 29 official Seattle landmarks, including 12 historic homes. A group of residences on 14th Avenue West, built between 1890 and 1910, included one of the few Queen Anne-style homes left on the hill. The North Queen Anne Drive Bridge , built in 1936 at Wolf Creek, is a parabolic steel arch bridge, declaring a historic building for its unique engineering style. One of the oldest floating tugboats, Arthur Foss, was moored near the Queen Anne base. Queen Anne Boulevard , which surrounds the crown of the hill, and some original retaining walls complete with decorative bricks, balustrades and street lights, are also famous landmarks. Though not located in Queen Anne and no longer located to the west of the current Seattle Center, Denny Cabin was built by David Denny in 1889 as a real estate office and was made from trees felled on Queen Anne Hill.
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Community services
Business
An 800 m (0.50 mi) stretch of Queen Anne Avenue North between West McGraw and West Galer Streets serves as the backbone of the central business district. The larger Queen Queen Chamber of Commerce is an association of environmental business leaders. Queen Anne hosts weekly farmer markets between June and October.
News and information
The Queen Anne News is a weekly community newspaper founded in 1919 and published by the Pacific Publishing Company. The Queen Anne View and Queen Anne-PI are environmental news blogs.
School
In the Seattle Public Schools district, Queen Anne is home to five public schools.
- Frantz Coe Elementary
- John Hay Elementary (which has three different buildings, all on Queen Anne Hill)
- Queen Anne Elementary
- McClure High School
- School Center
Two former schools, Queen Anne High School and West Queen Anne School, are at the National Register of Historic Places. Both are now condominium apartment buildings.
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- Queen Anne Community School
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- Seattle Country Day School
- Seattle Waldorf High School
Seattle Pacific University, a private university founded in 1891 by the Free Methodist Church of North America, has 4000 undergraduate and graduate students on a 43 hectare (17 hectare) campus on the northern slopes of Queen Anne.
Library
The Queen Anne Branch at the Seattle Public Library is housed in a 1914 building funded by Andrew Carnegie and built in the architectural style of the Tudor Revival. The structure, renovated in 2007, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been named a landmark by the Seattle Landmark Preservation Agency.
Parks and cemeteries
The Seattle Parks and Recreation department maintains 25 gardens in Queen Anne. The Kerry Park , located on Highland Drive, covers only 1.26 acres (0.51 ha), but boasts one of the most exciting city views, with the city center in the center of focus along with the Space Needle, and on sunny days, Mount Rainier is in the background. From this point you can also enjoy beautiful views of Elliott Bay and West Seattle. Kinnear Park , with 14.1 acres (5.7Ã, ha) forests and grasses, is the largest park in Queen Anne, offering views of wheat lifts at Pier 86. Rachel's Park formerly Soundview Terrace, is a play area on the hillside west named after Rachel Pearson, a 6-year-old girl who died on Alaska Airlines Flight 261 in 2000. Queen Anne Bowl , near 9.2 David Rodgers Park on the slopes north of Queen Anne, has a dirt runway and a synthetic surface football field. West Queen Anne Playfield includes a community center, indoor pool, and baseball and softball fields.
Queen Anne has two graves. Mount Pleasant Cemetery contains the unknown survivors of the 1906 SS12, Valencia catastrophe, as well as many early Seattle pioneers, and Filipino-American writer and activist Carlos Bulosan. A memorial to the death of the Everett Massacre of 1916 lies in the northeastern part of the cemetery. During World War II, the cemetery served as an anti-aircraft defense site. Hills of Eternity Cemetery , owned and operated by Temple De Hirsch Sinai, adjacent to Mount Pleasant.
Government and infrastructure
Queen Anne Hill is part of Washington's 7th congress district and the 36th legislative district. The Queen Anne residents were represented by Jim McDermott in the United States House of Representatives, Jeanne Kohl-Welles in the Washington State Senate, Reuven Carlyle and Mary Lou Dickerson at the Washington Representative Council, and Larry Phillips at the Metropolitan King County Council.
Queen Anne has two ZIP codes: 98109 and 98119. The United States Postal Service operates the Queen Anne Post Office at 415 1st Avenue North.
The Seattle Fire Department maintains two stations at Queen Anne.
Famous citizen
Previous and current inhabitants include:
- Alden J. Blethen (1845-1915), a newspaper publisher.
- Betty Bowen (1918-1977), journalist and art promoter; named "First Citizen of Seattle" two days before his death.
- Arthur C. Brooks (1964-), social scientist and president of the American Enterprise Institute.
- Jack Clay (1926-), acting as teacher, director, and actor.
- George F. Cotterill (1865-1958), city engineer, state senator, and mayor.
- David Denny (1832-1903), one of Seattle's founders.
- Robert E. Galer (1913-2005), Marine Corps Aviator and Honorary Medalist.
- Hank Ketcham (1920-2001), the cartoonist who created Dennis the Menace .
- George Kinnear (1836-1912), real estate developer.
- Lawrence Denny Lindsley (1879-1974), photographer, miner, hunter, and guide.
- Gary Locke (1950-), governor and secretary of the cabinet and former ambassador to China
- Rick Parashar (1963-2014), record producer
- Reginald Parsons (1873-1955), entrepreneur and philanthropist.
- Jonathan Raban (1942-), British travel writer and writer.
- Gerard Schwarz (1947-), composer and conductor.
- Edo Vanni (1918-2007), baseball player and manager.
- Thomas C. Wales (1952-2001), federal prosecutor and weapon control superintendent were shot dead at his home in Queen Anne Hill.
- Mike Webb (1955-2007), talk show host and radio activist.
- Rick White (1953-), member of the US House of Representatives.
- Jake Lamb (1990-), baseball player.
- Family of Love (1940-), urban commune.
References
External links
- Queen Anne Community Council
- Queen Anne Helpline
- Seattle Photo Collection, Queen Anne - Washington University Digital Collection
- "Queen Anne Hill". Geographic Name Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 7 2014 .
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