First Hill, Seattle

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Coordinates: 47°36′33″N 122°19′30″W / 47.60917°N 122.32500°W / 47.60917; -122.32500
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First Hill, Seattle
Zip Code
98122
Area Code206

First Hill is a

downtown Seattle toward Lake Washington
. First Hill is bounded on the west by Interstate 5, beyond which is Downtown, on the north by E. Pike and E. Madison Streets, beyond which is Capitol Hill, and on the south by Yesler Way, beyond which is the International District. The City of Seattle provides conflicting information about its eastern limit, beyond which are Cherry Hill and the Central District. Some describe it as being bounded by Broadway and Boren Avenues,[1] while others describe it as being bounded by 12th Avenue.[2]

First Hill has been home to

Catholic O'Dea High School and Frye Art Museum, as well as several churches that have become city landmarks: Trinity Parish Church, St. James Cathedral, and Seattle First Baptist Church
.

History

First Hill became increasingly attractive in the 1890s as a location close enough to downtown for convenience, but removed enough to offer a sense of retreat for the wealthier residents of Seattle. Among the elite to live in the area at that time were Indian fighter turned businessman

Judge Hiram Bond. The photographer Imogen Cunningham and her husband Roi Partridge lived in a boarding house on First Hill during the 1910s, until the residents of the house were evicted and the property converted into a hospital. More recently, local philanthropist and businesswoman Patsy Bullitt Collins
resided in a First Hill condominium.

First King County Courthouse

The first official King County Courthouse was built on First Hill in 1889–1890. The steep climb to the courthouse from downtown legal offices caused such frequent and vociferous complaints that Seattle lawyers nicknamed the area "Profanity Hill". The courthouse, constructed on the corner of 7th Avenue and Alder Street, was quickly outgrown, which, along with the loud dissatisfaction of local attorneys, led the county to move the courthouse off First Hill in 1916.

Pill Hill

The hill is also known as "Pill Hill" due to its many medical buildings.

Cabrini
Hospital.

Transportation

First Hill's major thoroughfares, assuming its greatest possible extent, include Madison, James, Cherry, and Spring Streets and Yesler Way (east- and west-bound) and 9th and Boren Avenues and Broadway (north- and south-bound).

Public Transportation

A

University Link.[4] Instead, the First Hill Streetcar was built on Broadway and Jackson Street to connect First Hill with the International District / Chinatown and Capitol Hill stations, beginning service in January 2016.[5]

Panoramic view of First Hill

First Hill, seen from the Seattle Municipal Tower

References

  1. ^ "First Hill Neighborhood Plan Area" (PDF). City of Seattle. 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 1, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  2. ^ "First Hill [map]". Seattle City Clerk's Geographic Indexing Atlas. City of Seattle. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  3. ISBN 978-1-4000-1854-3
    .
  4. ^ Ahmad, Fazel (July 24, 2005). "Archived copy" (PDF). Letter to Joni Earl. Sound Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 3, 2010. Retrieved March 25, 2015.{{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "First Hill Streetcar". Seattle Streetcar. Retrieved 25 March 2015.

Further reading

  • Kreisman, Lawrence, ed. (2014). Tradition and Change on Seattle's First Hill: Propriety, Profanity, Pills, and Preservation. Historic Seattle Preservation Foundation.
    OCLC 883511021
    .

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