ROOSEVELT, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

'Roosevelt' is a neighborhood in north Seattle, Washington. Its main thoroughfare, originally 10th Avenue, was renamed Roosevelt Way upon Theodore Roosevelt's death in 1919. The neighborhood received his name as the result of a Community Club contest held eight years later, in 1927.Wilma (20 August 2001)
Roosevelt's principal and minor arterials are the one-way pair Roosevelt Way (southbound) and 12th Avenue NE (northbound), Lake City Way (SR 522) and 15th Avenue NE, and NE 65th and 75th Streets.^[1] City streets are laid out and designated in a pattern; see street layout of Seattle, directionals.
The boundaries of the neighborhood are Interstate 5 to the west, beyond which lies Green Lake; NE Ravenna Boulevard and NE 60th Street to the south, beyond which is the University District; 15th Avenue NE to the east, beyond which is Ravenna; and Lake City Way (SR 522) to the north, beyond which lies Maple Leaf, (map).^[2]
The Roosevelt district is also home to Roosevelt High School (RHS, opened 1922), one of the older schools in the Seattle School District. Like the street, it is named after Teddy, not Franklin D. Roosevelt. For many years, Roosevelt High School and Garfield High School juggled the lead in the school district in many academic and sports fields. Alumni include Mark Pattison, who played football for the University of Washington Huskies and was drafted in the seventh round in 1985 by the Oakland Raiders of the NFL, actress Rose McGowan, and Nobel laureate scientists Linda B. Buck and Robert E. Lucas Jr.^[3]
Although primarily a residential neighborhood, the Roosevelt district had a Sears department store from 1928 to 1980.^[4] After its closure, the land was redeveloped as Roosevelt Square, which now features a Whole Foods—an upscale supermarket, a local and family-owned Bartell Drugs pharmacy (chain established 1890),^[5] a furniture store, an appliance store, a video store, and a Starbucks, among other businesses. Across Roosevelt Way is the longest-established vegetarian restaurant in Seattle, independent Sunlight Cafe, nearly as old (1978) as Starbucks.^[6] Numerous other small businesses still line 65th Street and Roosevelt Way. Teddy's is a multi-generational, multi-subculture popular biker bar. Roosevelt Way from 62nd Street north to 64th is somewhat of an "audio row", featuring a concentration of stores selling high-end audio and video systems and components.

Contents

Parks

See also

Notes and references

Bibliography

Further reading

Parks

The neighborhood includes two parks: Cowen Park, in the southeast corner (contiguous with the larger Ravenna Park of Ravenna); and Froula Playground, in the northeast corner, adjacent to the Green Lake Reservoir. The source of Ravenna Creek has been reduced to Cowen Park; since completion of partial daylighting in 2006, the creek has been reconnected to Lake Washington.

See also

Neighborhoods of Ravenna Creek

Notes and references

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Bibliography

★ "About the Seattle City Clerk's On-line Information Services"
See heading, "Note about limitations of these data".

★ "About us"

★ "The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1995"
Economics > Laureates > Robert E. Lucas.

★ "Company Timeline: February 2006"
PDF at "the company. What we are all about"

★ "Sunlight Cafe: Seattle's Venerable Vegetarian Institution"
Howe > Restaurants > Vegetarian.

★ "Robert E. Lucas, Jr. – Autobiography"
From Les Prix Nobel: The Nobel Prizes 1995, , , , Nobel Foundation, 1996,

★ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004", Medicine > Laureates > Linda B. Buck

★ "Street Classification Maps"
High-Resolution Version, PDF format, 16.1 MB
Medium-Resolution Version, PDF format, 1.45 MB 12 January 2004.
Low-Resolution Version, PDF format, 825 KB 12 January 2004.
"Planned Arterials Map Legend Definitions", PDF format. 12 January 2004.
The high resolution version is good for printing, 11 x 17. The low and medium resolution versions are good for quicker online vewing. [Source: "Street Classification Maps, Note on Accessing These PDF Files"]

★ "Roosevelt"
"NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpg dated 17 June 2002

★ "Bartell, George H. Sr. (1868-1956)"
Warren referenced "A Century of Business," Puget Sound Business Journal, September 17, 1999;
Junior Achievement of Greater Puget Sound Hall of Fame Series;
"Bartell Drugs: All in the Family," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 22, 2000, p. C-1;
Bartell Drugs Webpage (http://www.bartelldrugs.com).
"For information on the origin of the soda fountain see the "About Inventors" Website (http://inventors.about.com)."

★ "Seattle Neighborhoods: Ravenna - Roosevelt -- Thumbnail History"
Wilma referenced "Calvary Cemetery", Historylink Metropedia Library (www.Historylink.org);
"Ravenna Post Office", Historylink Timeline Library (www.Historylink.org);
"City of Seattle Annexes Town of Ravenna", Ibid.;
"Methodists Form Congregation in Ravenna Neighborhood", Ibid.;
"University District", ''Historylink Magic Lantern Library'' (www.Historylink.org);
Keming Kuo, "Beautiful Trees Cut To 'Line Someone's Pocket'", ''The Seattle Times'', 29 June 1977;
"Removal of Trees Protested", Ibid., 23 November 1926;
"Removal of Giant Trees Would Be Crime", Ibid., 4 November 1926;
"Roosevelt Park Again Ravenna", ibid., 29 May 1931;
"Sears To Close Roosevelt Store", > Ibid., 1 November 1979;
Shareen Singh, "Area's Metaphysical Bent Is Well Known", ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', 12 September 1998, Neighbors (project 1996-2000);
Margaret Pitcairn Strachan, "Roosevelt-Ravenna Are Bustling Areas", ''The Seattle Sunday Times'', 7 July 1946, p. 5;
''Seattle School Histories, 1869-1974'', ed. by Sara Levant (Seattle: Seattle Public Schools, 1974).

★ "Seattle voters reject a city manager and district elections on June 30, 1914."
Wilma referenced Richard Berner, ''Seattle 1900-1920: From Boomtown, Urban Turbulence, to Restoration'' (Seattle: Charles Press), 191;
"Seattle Will Stand By Old City Charter", ''The Seattle Daily Times'', July 1, 1914, p. 1, 2;
"Charter Attacked By Dr. Matthews", ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', June 22, 1914, p. 2.

★ "Seattle voters reject district elections for city council on November 7, 1995."
Note: The date of this file was corrected on March 20, 2006.
Wilma referenced Scott Maier, "The Quiet Campaign to Amend City Charter Supporters Think They Will Win", ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', November 2, 1995, p. B-1;
Mark Higgins, "Seattle Gets Message: Let's Stay the Course", Ibid., November 9, 1995, p. A-1;
Jake Batsell, Jack Broom, Barbara A. Serrano, "Stewart Case: $5 million fine", ''The Seattle Times'', March 18, 1998, p. A-1.

Further reading

★ "Sunny Walter's Washington Nature Weekends: Wildlife Viewing Locations - Greater Seattle Area"
"with additions by Sunny Walter and local Audubon chapters."
Viewing locations only; the book has walks, hikes, wildlife, and natural wonders.
Walter excerpted from

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★ Nature in the city: Seattle, , Maria, Dolan, Mountaineers Books, 2003, ISBN 0-89886-879-3 (paperback)
See "Northeast Seattle" section, bullet points "Meadowbrook", "Paramount Park Open Space", "North Seattle Community College Wetlands", and "Sunny Walter -- Twin Ponds".