Columbia City. Chinatown-International District. Queen Anne. Pioneer Square. South Lake Union. University District. Broadway was the obvious path for the electric trolley that in first linked Capitol Hill to Beacon Hill through First Hill and what in the beginning was a long boulevard of stumps and dreams and at least one swale. The swale centered at Republican Street where in the evening riders could hear frogs croaking.
On or just off Broadway between Pike and Roy streets the busiest cultural and commercial life of Capitol Hill were developed. It was Seattle's first building specifically constructed as a high school. The architects were William E. Boone and J.
The building was controversial for its large size and location then remote from downtown , but within a year was filled to capacity. The class had graduates, the largest graduating class in the history of Seattle. With no athletic field of its own, the students at Broadway High used the playfield developed just south of what was then still called the Lincoln Park Low Reservoir.
Both the reservoir and park were one short block east of the school. Like the high reservoir at Volunteer Park, the low one was built in for the then new Cedar River gravity water supply. In their description of the park, the Olmsted Brothers recommended that there be "no provision for the more vigorous forms of play.
It faced Seattle High School across Broadway and opened in , the same year as the high school. The sanctuary was designed by architect Julian F. Everett, who later designed the Pioneer Square Pergola. The new church opened its doors to a wide front lawn in Twenty-four years later the lawn was considerably narrowed when Broadway Avenue was widened and straightened north of Harrison Street.
Many structures, the church not included, were moved back with the power and telephone poles. In , Pilgrim church was diminished again, but this time by an act of God when the earthquake of that year toppled the top of its tower. The gleaming, block-long Broadway Market opened in For 30 years this market served as a collection of independently owned small shops.
In Norm and most of the others moved out and Safeway and Marketime moved in. The windows were stuccoed over and the charm of shopping given a green glow under fluorescent lights.
More recently, the market has been enlarged and reopened as an arcade featuring again a variety of small businesses. The new and enlarged windows are open again. North of Roy Street, on the border between one of the several Pontius additions to the south and both the Sara Yesler and Jacob Furth Additions to the north, the arterial turns slightly east to become 10th Avenue N.
To four long blocks north of Roy Street the St. Ten years later the bad debts of the Great Depression with the help of an unsympathetic St. Louis banker who held the mortgage closed the cathedral doors. They did not open again for services until For a brief time in the interim the sanctuary was used as an anti-aircraft training center. The congregation spent part of their exodus worshiping in the Woman's Century Club at the southeast corner of Roy Street and Harvard Avenue. In , the club moved four blocks north directly across Roy Street from the Rainier Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Together with the Cornish School of the Arts, which had moved to the northwest corner of the same intersection only four years earlier, the trio created at the intersection of Roy and Harvard the principal cultural center of the increasingly cosmopolitan Capitol Hill. Adding the many great homes to the north of Roy Street and to the west of Broadway Avenue amounts to what for many is the most charmed part of Capitol Hill.
Included there at Belmont Avenue is the first luxury apartment house designed by Frederick William Anhalt The couple was married in and since Mary was the daughter of James J. Hill, the "empire builder" of the Great Northern Railroad, she did not have to change her name. Sam Hill was the principal booster for the Northwest chapter of the Good Roads movement of the early twentieth century.
After Sam Hill's death in , his home on Highland stood vacant until Theodore and Guendolen Plestcheeff purchased it in In the s, the city decided to allow Richard E. John Olmsted opposed this and the Olmsted relationship with Seattle ended. The museum opened in Beginning with the Water Tower The tower, then, would be its crown jewel Panorama We will climb the tower in when there was no leaf canopy and it was still possible to see the hill The Borders of Capitol Hill Capitol Hill is part of a long ridge that runs north-south behind downtown and eventually splits into two ridges.
Naming Capitol Hill Capitol Hill got its name in the fall of Lake View Cemetery and Volunteer Park Before the years of clear-cut logging on Capitol Hill in the s, it was sometimes necessary to make it through the forest and to the summit with a wagon that often served as hearse.
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