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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1911
Page
6
Dixon & Co describes West Seattle as the city’s most beautiful area with pure air and scenic views. It extols the surrounding mountains, Puget Sound, ships, and naval traffic, noting three streetcar lines and ferry service that make a fifteen minute bay crossing for a scenic tour.
The article recalls a forest cleared in four years for the Carnegie library High School and Hiawatha Playfield. It praises progress along Fairmount Gatewood Lincoln Beach Fauntleroy and beyond. Improvement Clubs unite to upbuild the ward through a federation coordinating efforts.
Citizens unite with experts to expand parks and boulevards following Olmsted guidance. Projects include Lincoln Beach Park Reserve, Rion Pier, Alki Bathing Beach, Alki Playfield, Hiawatha Playfield, Schmitz Boulevard and Park, Schmitz donation area, and land extensions. Twenty acre Youngstown playfield pending sale.
Over the last three years more than twenty five miles of streets have been graded and over forty miles of concrete sidewalks laid. Districts under progress include Rose Street 45th Ave Walnut Ave Lowman Drive and California Ave with California Ave to Duwamish Head five miles when finished. Planned work covers 35th Ave from Oregon Street to city limits over three miles and West Alaska Street to California Ave ready to start.
The Cedar River water mains and gas mains are in practically all graded streets with temporary mains ahead of street improvements. Telephones and the city light cover a wider area, the past year adding much to comfort and convenience for citizens. High School West Seattle Park.
West Seattle's beauty at dusk shifts to a bustling vision of progress as annexation to Seattle brings rapid population growth from seven thousand to seventeen thousand in two and a half years. The area invests in schools with many teachers and new campuses, expands its ward reach, and envisions a hundred thousand residents, a Carnegie library, and church communities fueling continued development.
A historic proposal outlines five main roadways forming a north south network from Riverside to Thirty-fifth avenue with connections to Railroad and Spokane avenues. It calls for a viaduct over Railroad avenue linking to Alki avenue and rapid routes from West Waterway to California avenue and Alki Point to speed access to the business center.
West Seattle offers a safe investment with lower prices than other high class districts. Upon completion of planned improvements values are expected to rise significantly within a short time. A fine homesite near the business center is accessible to those without great wealth, inviting all to make a home in West Seattle. Hendrick Suydam Seattle.
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