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'''Seward Park''' is a [[neighborhood]] in southeast [[Seattle, Washington]] just west of the [[Seward Park (Seattle)|park of the same name]]. The park itself occupies all of Bailey Peninsula, a prominent, forested [[peninsula]] that juts into [[Lake Washington]]. The attached map is accurate, broadly speaking, in capturing "Greater Seward Park," though real estate sites, such as Zillow, will refer to the part of the neighborhood north of Orcas Street as Lakewood, which is reasonable, since that neighborhood is the historic home of a "community club" (which owns its own house and land) once know as the ''Lakewood Community Club'' (built on or around the 1920s), and now known as the ''Lakewoond-Seward Community Club''. |
'''Seward Park''' is a [[neighborhood]] in southeast [[Seattle, Washington]] just west of the [[Seward Park (Seattle)|park of the same name]]. The park itself occupies all of Bailey Peninsula, a prominent, forested [[peninsula]] that juts into [[Lake Washington]]. The attached map is accurate, broadly speaking, in capturing "Greater Seward Park," though real estate sites, such as Zillow, will refer to the part of the neighborhood north of Orcas Street as Lakewood, which is reasonable, since that neighborhood is the historic home of a "community club" (which owns its own house and land) once know as the ''Lakewood Community Club'' (built on or around the 1920s), and now known as the ''Lakewoond-Seward Community Club''. |
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==Neighborhood== |
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The neighborhood is bounded on the east and north by the lake, on the south by S Kenyon Street, and on the west by the eastern boundaries of Columbia City, one of Seattle's oldest neighborhoods. Because, as the city of Seattle proudly notes, Seattle does not believe in wards, wishing to avoid the "ward politics of 'back'" (that would Chicago and eastward), Seattle has no legally defined neighborhoods. However, the City does respond to popular definitions, as does Zillow, and the city's website<ref>{{cite web|url=http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/nmaps/html/NN-1400S.htm|title=Seattle City Clerk's Office Geographic Indexing Atlas}}</ref> indicates how complex the west border of the Seward Park (or Lakewood-Seward Park) neighborhood is. |
The neighborhood is bounded on the east and north by the lake, on the south by S Kenyon Street, and on the west by the eastern boundaries of Columbia City, one of Seattle's oldest neighborhoods. Because, as the city of Seattle proudly notes, Seattle does not believe in wards, wishing to avoid the "ward politics of 'back'" (that would Chicago and eastward), Seattle has no legally defined neighborhoods. However, the City does respond to popular definitions, as does Zillow, and the city's website<ref>{{cite web|url=http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/nmaps/html/NN-1400S.htm|title=Seattle City Clerk's Office Geographic Indexing Atlas}}</ref> indicates how complex the west border of the Seward Park (or Lakewood-Seward Park) neighborhood is. |
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==Environment== |
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The 300 acres (121 ha) of Seward Park has about a 120 acre (48.6 ha) surviving remnant of [[old growth]] forest, providing a glimpse of what some of the lake shore looked like before the city of Seattle. With trees older than 250 years and many less than 200, the Seward Park forest is relatively young (the forests of Seattle before the city were fully mature, up through 1,000–2,000 years old).<ref>{{cite web | last =Sherwood | first =Don | coauthors = | date =2003-06-20 | year = | month = | url=http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/history/SewardPk.pdf | title =Seward Park | format =PDF | work =PARK HISTORY: Sherwood History Files | publisher =Seattle Parks and Recreation | accessdate =2006-04-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last =Talbert | first =Paul | coauthors = | date =2006-05-01 | year = | month = | url=http://www.sewardpark.org/sewardpark/magforest.html | title =The Magnificent Forest | work = | publisher =Friends of Seward Park | accessdate =2006-08-06 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20060717221342/http://sewardpark.org/sewardpark/magforest.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2006-07-17}}</ref> Still, there is no other forest within the city limits like Seward Park's. You can wander trails where all you can see are towering softwoods, mostly Douglas Firs, but with other species present as well, including Western Hemlock and Alaskan Cedar. The Park offers at least five distinct experiences, which are further described under the entry for the park itself. |
The 300 acres (121 ha) of Seward Park has about a 120 acre (48.6 ha) surviving remnant of [[old growth]] forest, providing a glimpse of what some of the lake shore looked like before the city of Seattle. With trees older than 250 years and many less than 200, the Seward Park forest is relatively young (the forests of Seattle before the city were fully mature, up through 1,000–2,000 years old).<ref>{{cite web | last =Sherwood | first =Don | coauthors = | date =2003-06-20 | year = | month = | url=http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/history/SewardPk.pdf | title =Seward Park | format =PDF | work =PARK HISTORY: Sherwood History Files | publisher =Seattle Parks and Recreation | accessdate =2006-04-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last =Talbert | first =Paul | coauthors = | date =2006-05-01 | year = | month = | url=http://www.sewardpark.org/sewardpark/magforest.html | title =The Magnificent Forest | work = | publisher =Friends of Seward Park | accessdate =2006-08-06 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20060717221342/http://sewardpark.org/sewardpark/magforest.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2006-07-17}}</ref> Still, there is no other forest within the city limits like Seward Park's. You can wander trails where all you can see are towering softwoods, mostly Douglas Firs, but with other species present as well, including Western Hemlock and Alaskan Cedar. The Park offers at least five distinct experiences, which are further described under the entry for the park itself. |
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Seward Park is built on what may be one of the highest residential hills in Seattle (the aforementioned "Graham Hill").{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} In a series of annexations, the neighborhood joined the town of Southeast Seattle, which then joined the City of Seattle in 1907.<ref>{{cite book | last=Phelps | first=Myra L. | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | title=Public works in Seattle | origdate= | origyear= | origmonth= | url= | accessdate=2006-04-21 | edition= | date= | year=1978 | month= | publisher=Seattle Engineering Department | location=Seattle | isbn=0-9601928-1-6 | pages= | chapter=Chapter 15, "Annexation" | chapterurl= }}, p. 216–224, map "to 1921", p. 217; map "to 1975", p. 224, map key table p. 222-3.</ref> |
Seward Park is built on what may be one of the highest residential hills in Seattle (the aforementioned "Graham Hill").{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} In a series of annexations, the neighborhood joined the town of Southeast Seattle, which then joined the City of Seattle in 1907.<ref>{{cite book | last=Phelps | first=Myra L. | authorlink= | coauthors= | editor= | title=Public works in Seattle | origdate= | origyear= | origmonth= | url= | accessdate=2006-04-21 | edition= | date= | year=1978 | month= | publisher=Seattle Engineering Department | location=Seattle | isbn=0-9601928-1-6 | pages= | chapter=Chapter 15, "Annexation" | chapterurl= }}, p. 216–224, map "to 1921", p. 217; map "to 1975", p. 224, map key table p. 222-3.</ref> |
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==Demographics== |
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Around a quarter of the residents are [[African American]], and another quarter [[Asian American]], most of the remainder being [[White (people)|White]]. The neighborhood has been a hub of [[Orthodox Jew]]ish life for nearly 40 years. The oldest [[synagogue]] in [[Washington (U.S. state)|Washington]] state, [[Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath]], is located there, as are [[Sephardic Jew|Sephardic]] [[Congregation Ezra Bessaroth]] and [[Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation]]. 90% of Orthodox Jews in Seattle are said to live within a mile of one of the synagogues, though more recent arrivals have been settling north of the [[Lake Washington Ship Canal]] in [[View Ridge, Seattle, Washington|View Ridge]], [[Wedgwood, Seattle, Washington|Wedgwood]], [[Hawthorne Hills, Seattle, Washington|Hawthorne Hills]], and [[Ravenna, Seattle, Washington|Ravenna]] and in nearby communities such as [[Mercer Island]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} |
Around a quarter of the residents are [[African American]], and another quarter [[Asian American]], most of the remainder being [[White (people)|White]]. The neighborhood has been a hub of [[Orthodox Jew]]ish life for nearly 40 years. The oldest [[synagogue]] in [[Washington (U.S. state)|Washington]] state, [[Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath]], is located there, as are [[Sephardic Jew|Sephardic]] [[Congregation Ezra Bessaroth]] and [[Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation]]. 90% of Orthodox Jews in Seattle are said to live within a mile of one of the synagogues, though more recent arrivals have been settling north of the [[Lake Washington Ship Canal]] in [[View Ridge, Seattle, Washington|View Ridge]], [[Wedgwood, Seattle, Washington|Wedgwood]], [[Hawthorne Hills, Seattle, Washington|Hawthorne Hills]], and [[Ravenna, Seattle, Washington|Ravenna]] and in nearby communities such as [[Mercer Island]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} |
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Seward Park is a neighborhood in southeast Seattle, Washington just west of the park of the same name. The park itself occupies all of Bailey Peninsula, a prominent, forested peninsula that juts into Lake Washington. The attached map is accurate, broadly speaking, in capturing "Greater Seward Park," though real estate sites, such as Zillow, will refer to the part of the neighborhood north of Orcas Street as Lakewood, which is reasonable, since that neighborhood is the historic home of a "community club" (which owns its own house and land) once know as the Lakewood Community Club (built on or around the 1920s), and now known as the Lakewoond-Seward Community Club.
Neighborhood
The neighborhood is bounded on the east and north by the lake, on the south by S Kenyon Street, and on the west by the eastern boundaries of Columbia City, one of Seattle's oldest neighborhoods. Because, as the city of Seattle proudly notes, Seattle does not believe in wards, wishing to avoid the "ward politics of 'back'" (that would Chicago and eastward), Seattle has no legally defined neighborhoods. However, the City does respond to popular definitions, as does Zillow, and the city's website[1] indicates how complex the west border of the Seward Park (or Lakewood-Seward Park) neighborhood is.
Environment
The 300 acres (121 ha) of Seward Park has about a 120 acre (48.6 ha) surviving remnant of old growth forest, providing a glimpse of what some of the lake shore looked like before the city of Seattle. With trees older than 250 years and many less than 200, the Seward Park forest is relatively young (the forests of Seattle before the city were fully mature, up through 1,000–2,000 years old).[2][3] Still, there is no other forest within the city limits like Seward Park's. You can wander trails where all you can see are towering softwoods, mostly Douglas Firs, but with other species present as well, including Western Hemlock and Alaskan Cedar. The Park offers at least five distinct experiences, which are further described under the entry for the park itself.
One of the earliest settlers, E. A. Clark, was influential in the life of Cheshiahud, a young man at the time, the mid-1850s.[4]
Seward Park is built on what may be one of the highest residential hills in Seattle (the aforementioned "Graham Hill").[citation needed] In a series of annexations, the neighborhood joined the town of Southeast Seattle, which then joined the City of Seattle in 1907.[5]
Demographics
Around a quarter of the residents are African American, and another quarter Asian American, most of the remainder being White. The neighborhood has been a hub of Orthodox Jewish life for nearly 40 years. The oldest synagogue in Washington state, Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, is located there, as are Sephardic Congregation Ezra Bessaroth and Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation. 90% of Orthodox Jews in Seattle are said to live within a mile of one of the synagogues, though more recent arrivals have been settling north of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in View Ridge, Wedgwood, Hawthorne Hills, and Ravenna and in nearby communities such as Mercer Island.[citation needed]
Education
Seward Park is home to Whitworth and Graham Hill elementary schools.
See also
Notes
- ^ "Seattle City Clerk's Office Geographic Indexing Atlas".
- ^ Sherwood, Don (2003-06-20). "Seward Park" (PDF). PARK HISTORY: Sherwood History Files. Seattle Parks and Recreation. Retrieved 2006-04-21.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|coauthors=and|month=(help) - ^ Talbert, Paul (2006-05-01). "The Magnificent Forest". Friends of Seward Park. Archived from the original on 2006-07-17. Retrieved 2006-08-06.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|coauthors=and|month=(help) - ^ Talbert, Paul (2006-05-01). "SkEba'kst: The Lake People and Seward Park". The History of Seward Park. SewardPark.org. Archived from the original on 2005-12-14. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|coauthors=and|month=(help) - ^ Phelps, Myra L. (1978). "Chapter 15, "Annexation"". Public works in Seattle. Seattle: Seattle Engineering Department. ISBN 0-9601928-1-6.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameters:|origmonth=,|month=,|chapterurl=,|origdate=, and|coauthors=(help), p. 216–224, map "to 1921", p. 217; map "to 1975", p. 224, map key table p. 222-3.
References
- Dailey, Tom (n.d.). "Duwamish-Seattle". "Coast Salish Villages of Puget Sound". Retrieved 2006-04-21.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|month=(help); External link in|work= - Wilma, David (2001-03-31). "Seattle Neighborhoods: Seward Park -- Thumbnail History". HistoryLink.org Essay 3143. Retrieved 2006-08-06.
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