Queen Anne | |
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 Queen Anne Hill as seen from theBainbridge ferry | |
 Map of Queen Anne's location in Seattle | |
| Coordinates:47°38′14″N122°21′25″W / 47.63722°N 122.35694°W /47.63722; -122.35694 | |
| Elevation | 120 m (394 ft) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1512589[1] |
Queen Anne is aneighborhood in northwesternSeattle,Washington. Queen Anne covers an area of 7.3 square kilometers (2.8 sq mi), and has a population of about 28,000. It is bordered byBelltown to the south,Lake Union to the east, theLake Washington Ship Canal to the north andInterbay to the west.
The neighborhood is built on a hill, now namedQueen Anne Hill, which became a popular spot for the city's early economic and cultural elite to build their mansions. Its name is derived from theQueen Anne architectural style in which many of the early homes were built.
Queen Anne is bounded on the north by theFremont Cut of theLake Washington Ship Canal, beyond which isFremont; on the west by 15th and Elliott Avenues West, beyond which isInterbay,Magnolia, andElliott Bay; on the east byLake Union andAurora Avenue North, beyond which isWestlake. As a neighborhoodtoponym,Queen Anne may includeLower Queen Anne, also known asUptown, the area at the southern base of the hill, just north and west ofSeattle Center. Whether or not Lower Queen Anne is considered a separate neighborhood matters in setting Queen Anne's southern boundary, which is either West Mercer Street or Denny Way.[2]
Queen Anne can be reached fromInterstate 5 via the Mercer Street Exit (Exit 167). The neighborhood's main thoroughfares are Gilman Drive West, 3rd Avenue West, Queen Anne Avenue North, Boston Street, and a set of streets, collectively known asQueen Anne Boulevard, that loop around the crown of the hill and reflect a comprehensive boulevard design in the style of theOlmsted Brothers architectural firm. The design was never fully executed, but it remains part of the Seattle Parks System.[3]
While Queen Anne stands out in Seattle geography due to its proximity to downtown and three television broadcast towers, the highest point in the city, 520 feet (160 m) above sea level, is inWest Seattle. Queen Anne slopes are home to seven of the twenty steepest streets in the city[4] and 120 pedestrian staircases.[5]
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Including the sub-neighborhoods ofNorth Queen Anne,West Queen Anne,East Queen Anne andLower Queen Anne (orUptown), Queen Anne has approximately 19,000 households and a total population of about 36,000.[6] Queen Anne is disproportionately populated by unmarried, white, young adults. The population is more racially homogeneous than Seattle as a whole.
| Queen Anne[7] | Seattle[8] | United States[10] | ||
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| Population density | 5000/km2 | 2800/km2 | 39/km2 | 34/km2 |
| Male /female | 49% / 51% | 50% / 50% | 50% / 50% | 49% / 51% |
| Under age 18 | 9% | 15% | 24% | 24% |
| Over age 65 | 10% | 11% | 12% | 13% |
| Median age | 33.9 | 36.1 | 37.3 | 37.2 |
| Foreign born | 9% | 18% | 13% | 13% |
| White race | 83% | 70% | 77% | 78% |
| High school or higher | 98% | 92% | 90% | 85% |
| Bachelor's degree or higher | 67% | 56% | 31% | 28% |
| Married | 37% | 40% | 52% | 50% |
| Averagehousehold size | 1.7 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 2.6 |
| Renter /homeowner | 63% / 37% | 52% / 48% | 36% / 64% | 34% / 66% |
| Living in same house over 1-year | 70% | 77% | 82% | 85% |
| Median household income | $64,000 | $62,000 | $59,000 | $53,000 |
| Note: Education statistics are for population 25 years and older. Marital statistics are for population 15 years and older. All data are from2010 census or American Community Survey. | ||||
The VashonGlacier carved Queen Anne Hill'stopography more than 13,000 years ago, and human habitation in the area began some 3000 years ago. When white settlers arrived in the mid-19th century, theDuwamish tribe maintained a seasonal presence in and around Queen Anne.[11]
White settlement of Queen Anne stemmed from the arrival of theDenny Party atWest Seattle'sAlki Point in November 1851. In 1853,David Denny staked a claim to 320 acres (130 ha) of land the Duwamish calledbaba'kwoh, prairies, known today as Lower Queen Anne, and bounded by Elliott Bay to the west, Lake Union to the east, Mercer Street to the north, and Denny Way to the south. Denny called the area "Potlach Meadows". Development of the hill, called at various times North Seattle, Galer Hill, and Eden Hill, was slow. Then an 1875 windstorm flattened thousands of trees on Queen Anne, making the previously dense forest more appealing for settlement. The hill began to be called "Queen Anne" by 1885, after theQueen Anne style houses that dominated the area.[12] The arrival of theNorthern Pacific Railway (1883) and theSeattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway (1887), theGreat Seattle Fire of 1889, and the opening of threecable car lines to the top of the hill starting in 1890, including theQueen Anne Counterbalance, further encouraged residential and business development.[citation needed]
The 1917 opening of theLake Washington Ship Canal, and theFremont andBallard Bridges over it, made the area more appealing for maritime and timber industries, and connected Queen Anne with communities to the north. On the south side of the hill, the 1927 completion of a Civic Center (with auditorium, ice arena and football field) on David Denny's Potlach Meadows land brought residents from all over the city to Queen Anne for concerts and sporting events.[citation needed]
The firsttelevision broadcast in thePacific Northwest originated from the hill in November 1948, when KRSC-TV (nowKING-TV) signed-on from its transmitting tower at Third Avenue North and Galer Street.KOMO-TV installed its own tower nearby, on Galer Street and Orange Place North, and began operations from there in December 1953, andKIRO-TV went on the air in February 1958 from a tower adjacent to its original studios on Queen Anne Avenue.[citation needed]
"The 1962 SeattleWorld's Fair was perhaps the most transformational single event in the history of Queen Anne", according to historians Florence K. Lentz and Mimi Sheridan. Named theCentury 21 Exposition, the fair expanded on existing Civic Center infrastructure on the oldbaba'kwoh swale. After the fair, the grounds became theSeattle Center, home to theSpace Needle,Pacific Science Center,Experience Music Project,Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, the north terminal of theSeattle monorail andKeyArena.[13]
TheSeattle SuperSonics began playing at the then-Seattle Center Coliseum in 1967. TheSeattle Thunderbirds hockey team began play next door at the Mercer Street Arena in 1977. TheSeattle Storm basketball team began play at KeyArena in 2000.[citation needed]
As late as 1964, the area had a large enough population of families with children to motivate opening McClure Middle School, but by 1981 a decline in such families led the school system to close Queen Anne High School, North Queen Anne Elementary School, and West Queen Anne Elementary School.[14]
AssistantUnited States AttorneyThomas C. Wales was shot in his home in the Queen Anne neighborhood on October 11, 2001, dying the next day of his wounds. The murder remains unsolved.[15][better source needed]
Queen Anne is home to 29official Seattle landmarks, including 12 historic houses. A group ofresidences on 14th Avenue West, built between 1890 and 1910, include one of the few remainingQueen Anne style houses on the hill.[16] TheNorth Queen Anne Drive Bridge, built in 1936 across Wolf Creek, is aparabolicsteel arch bridge, declared a historic landmark for its unique engineering style.[17] One of the oldest wooden-hulledtugboats still afloat, theArthur Foss, is moored near the base of Queen Anne.[citation needed]Queen Anne Boulevard, which circles the crown of the hill, and some of the originalretaining walls complete with decorativebrickwork,balustrades, andstreet lights, are also designated landmarks.[18] Although not located at Queen Anne and no longer located west of present-daySeattle Center, the Denny Cabin was built byDavid Denny in 1889 as a real-estate office and was made from trees cut down on Queen Anne Hill.[19]
An 800 m (0.50 mi) stretch of Queen Anne Avenue North between West McGraw and West Galer Streets serves as the spine of thecentral business district. The Greater Queen AnneChamber of Commerce is an association of neighborhood business leaders.[20] Queen Anne hosts a weeklyfarmers' market between June and October.[21]
TheQueen Anne News is a weeklycommunity newspaper founded in 1919 and published by thePacific Publishing Company.[22] TheQueen Anne View[23] is a neighborhood newsblog.[better source needed]
Within theSeattle Public Schools district, Queen Anne is home to six public schools.
Two former schools,Queen Anne High School andWest Queen Anne School, are on theNational Register of Historic Places. Both are now condominium apartment buildings.
Queen Anne has fiveprivate schools.
Queen Anne is served byLincoln High School (Seattle, Washington) located in theWallingford, Seattle neighborhood.[26]
Seattle Pacific University, a privateuniversity founded in 1891 by theFree Methodist Church of North America, has 4000 undergraduate and graduate students on a 43 acres (17 hectares) campus on the north slope of Queen Anne.[27]
The Queen Anne branch of theSeattle Public Library is housed in a 1914 building funded byAndrew Carnegie and built in lateTudor Revival architecture style. The structure, renovated in 2007, is listed on theNational Register of Historic Places and has been named a landmark by Seattle's Landmarks Preservation Board.[28]
TheSeattle Parks and Recreation department maintains 24 parks on Queen Anne.Kerry Park, located on Highland Drive, covers a mere 1.26 acres (0.51 ha), but boasts one of the most attractive views of the city, with downtown at the center of focus along with the Space Needle, and on clear days,Mount Rainier in the background. From this point there are also views ofElliott Bay andWest Seattle.[29]Kinnear Park, with 14.1 acres (5.7 ha) ofwoodland and grass, is Queen Anne's largest park, offering views of thegrain elevator atPier 86.[30] Rachel's Park, formerly Soundview Terrace, is a play area on the west slope of the hill named after Rachel Pearson, a 6-year-old girl who died onAlaska Airlines Flight 261 in 2000.[31] Queen Anne Bowl, adjacent to the 9.2 David Rodgers Park on the north slope of Queen Anne, has a dirtrunning track and synthetic surfacesoccer pitch.[32]Bhy Kracke Park in East Queen Anne, features "one of the best views in the city," a playground, picnic shelter, several small grassy areas, and a paved walking path connecting the different levels of the park.[33] West Queen Anne Playfield includes a community center, indoorswimming pool, andbaseball andsoftball fields.[34]
Queen Anne has twocemeteries:Mount Pleasant Cemetery and adjacent Hills of Eternity Cemetery, which is owned and operated byTemple De Hirsch Sinai.[35]
Queen Anne Hill is part ofWashington's 7th congressional district and 36th legislative district. Queen Anne residents are represented byPramila Jayapal in theUnited States House of Representatives,Jeanne Kohl-Welles in theWashington State Senate,Reuven Carlyle andMary Lou Dickerson in theWashington House of Representatives, andLarry Phillips on the MetropolitanKing County Council.
Queen Anne has twoZIP codes: 98109 and 98119. TheUnited States Postal Service operates the Queen Anne Post Office at 415 1st Avenue North.[36]
TheSeattle Fire Department maintains twostations on Queen Anne.[37]
Past and present residents include:
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