People talk about location in Real Estate. Some locations, addresses, are catch phrases, such as The Highlands, or Broadmoor, that add prestige. In my last post about the Queen Anne Promenade it was a little vague that Queen Anne is the Hill just North of down town Seattle. Capitol Hill is just East of down town. Magnolia Bluff is an out cropping of land West of Queen Anne and drops into the Sound on it’s very West side.
Beacon Hill is South of Capitol Hill and over looks Boeing Field which is a small airport for private plans and commercial plane repair. There is a ware house district South of down town to Boeing Field and a bridge that connects to West Seattle.
So Seattle is surrounded by hills then those are bordered by Lake Washington on the East and Puget Sound on the West. All together this was the city of Seattle and where prominent families lived.
Now North of Queen Anne is a canal that links Lake Union with Puget Sound. If we follow the canal around Capitol Hill we end up in Lake Washington. North of these canals is flat expanse of land the elevates to the North. There is a Ridge in the center called Phinney Ridge, but actually extends North into Northgate. On the West of the ridge is Ballard, Loyal Heights, Golden Gardens, Olympic Manor, Blue Ridge, Broadview and the Highlands. On the East of the ridge is Laurelhurst, View Ridge, Wedgewood, and Meadowbrook. Directly along the ridge is the University, Wallingford, Green Lake, Greenwood, and Northgate.
Some of the areas left to be mentioned are pockets like Madison Park South through Washington Park, to Seward Park, along Lake Washington East of down town. The International District is the gate way to the Rainier Valley that runs South from down town into Columbia City.
In another post we’ll talk about neighborhoods and explore them more fully.
