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EspañolUNIVERSITY DISTRICT, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
''See also College_town.''
The 'University District' (commonly, the 'U District') is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, so named because the main campus of the University of Washington (UW) is located there. The UW moved in two years after the area was annexed to Seattle, while much of the area was still clear cut forest or stump farmland. The district of neighborhoods grew with the university to become a microcosm (for better and worse) of urban American cities.Dorpat
Like all Seattle districts, the boundaries of the University District are informal; by common usage, the University District is bounded on the west by Interstate 5; on the east by 25th Avenue NE; on the south by the Lake Washington Ship Canal; and on the north by NE Ravenna Boulevard. It also includes, east of these boundaries, a small district on the north shore of Union Bay, bounded on the north by NE 45th Street and on the east by 35th Avenue NE. This extension consists mainly of the "east campus" and extensive parking lots of the University.[1]Its main commercial street, University Way NE, is known throughout the city as "The Ave" in the "U District".
What is now the University District has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8,000 B.C.E.—10,000 years ago). Prominent Native American Duwamish villages of the Lushootseed (Skagit-Nisqually) Coast Salish nations were on a then-larger Portage Bay at what is now called Brooklyn Avenue, and the other on a larger Union Bay, near the present UW power plant (which is across from the UW IMA building), around the north shores a mile farther than today, and shores east of what is now the Union Bay Natural Area. (See also adjacent Ravenna neighborhood.) The Duwamish,[2] ("People of the Inside") tribe had the prominent village of ''SWAH-tsoo-gweel'' ("portage") on then-adjacent Union Bay, and what is now Ravenna was their backyard before the arrival of European settlers.[3] Villages were diffuse. In spring, people dispersed from their winter villages of longhouses to camps, gathering in summer for salmon. Gaps in the forest were maintained to encourage game and food supplies. Such "prairies" (anthrogenic grasslands) were cultivated in what is now the University District.[4] They were connected by a well-travelled path along what is now the Lake Washington Ship Canal (1883, 1916).
Surveyors noted several large Douglas-firs and western red cedars (given that large trees were not unusual back then, these must have been especially large). The U. District was first surveyed in 1855, and its first white settlers arrived 12 years later. In 1890, that part of the neighborhood due west of the present UW campus was laid out as the Brooklyn Addition. One year later much of the land north of the Ship Canal, including Brooklyn, was annexed to Seattle. The UW moved from Downtown in 1893, and the first university building was built in 1895.
An 1894 report describes a train wreck just west of the current University District. Latona has now been cut off from the University by Interstate 5.
The name "Brooklyn" began to fade soon thereafter. Electric trolley tracks had been laid up Columbus Avenue (later 14th Avenue) in 1892, and the neighborhood soon began to be called "University Station" after the heated waiting house at the corner of what is now NE 42nd Street (1895). The name Brooklyn is not lost, however, for Brooklyn Avenue NE runs parallel to University Way, one block west. North and west of the campus, within the University District, the University Heights—a name now little used—was named for its elementary school (1903–c.1988; since 1990 the University Heights Center for the Community , host for numerous activities small and large.[7]
But for the trolley, in early decades of the U. District Downtown was a trek, a boat, and a horsecart ride away. Given these early transportation difficulties, the U. District was largely self-sufficient, with area businesses for people with ties to the University. Construction of family homes increased in the early 1900s, as did churches, theaters, stores, and a YMCA. The district's first bank and the first local public library opened in 1906, the modest library organized by local merchants.[8]
As a result of a contest held by the University Commercial Club in 1919, 14th Avenue (by then already known as "The Avenue" or "The Ave") was renamed University Way, and the neighborhood was renamed the University District (1919). The neighborhood's north-south arterials are (from west to east) Roosevelt Way NE (southbound)), 11th Avenue NE (northbound), Brooklyn Avenue NE, University Way NE, and 15th Avenue NE. NE Pacific, 45th, and part of 50th streets are principal east-west arterials , NE Campus Parkway is a minor east-west arterial, running only west of the campus.[9]
The U District is characterized by the indigenous annual May U District Street Fair] [1], first of its kind in 1971,[10] started by Japanese-American merchant and dedicated peace activist Andy Shiga in 1970,[11] and the University District Farmers Market [2], Seattle's first (1993) and largest local farmers-only neighborhood market.[12] Andy Shiga (1919-1993) of Shiga's Imports and local attorney Calmar McCune (1911-1996) long supported development of the alternative character of the U District.[13] The ASUW Experimental College [3], founded in the college culture of 1968 by a group of UW students seeking education in areas not found in the traditional university environment, is now the largest nonprofit student-run program of its kind. Open to all, it has contributed to the cultural ambience of the U District ever since.[14] The Blue Moon Tavern has become an unofficial cultural landmark, since 1934.[15] Big Time is Seattle's original brewpub (1988).[16] Six theatres (including the Neptune built in 1921,[17] the Varsity since 1940;[18] the Grand Illusion Cinema (founded in a former dental lab in 1968 by Randy Finley[19], now owned and run by dedicated volunteers);[20] and the (locally-owned) Scarecrow Video, the largest video store on the West Coast [21] further characterize the neighborhood. The U District is second only to Capitol Hill as an epicenter for NoCat [4] Free Wi-Fi with the global Seattle Wireless [5] project.
The neighborhood's skyline landmarks (other than the UW campus) are its tallest buildings, the former Safeco Plaza (now owned by the University) and the Meany Hotel (which became the Best Western University Tower and is now Hotel Deca). The former, originally headquarters of Safeco Corporation, is located at the corner of Brooklyn Avenue NE and NE 45th Street. It was built in 1973, and at 22 stories high is the city's tallest building outside Downtown. The latter is Art Deco (1931, restored). The architect Robert Reamer gave every room a corner window.[22] A jewel of the neighborhood is the formal Neo-classical Carnegie Library (1910) on Roosevelt Way at 50th Street.[8]
In recent decades, the University District has suffered commercial decline, due at least in significant part to the more competitive planning, capital investment, and popularity of the University Village shopping center east of the campus, and Northgate Mall about 1-1/2 miles (2-1/2 km) north beside I-5. From 2002 to 2004, the city and the neighborhood have made some steps countering this trend by giving the Ave a repaving facelift including the addition of benches, bus bulbs, and period lighting.[24] The addition of benches represented the reversal of a decades-long neighborhood trend away from providing free places to sit.
Starting in 2016, the district will be serviced by an extension of Link Light Rail called the University Link.[25] The light rail line will will connect the U District with Capitol Hill, Downtown Seattle, Rainier Valley, and Sea-Tac airport. There are currently plans for one station located on Montlake Boulevard in front of Husky Stadium.[26]
The local year-round and seasonal homeless population, referred to as "Ave Rats", is well-known around Seattle. (See The Ave.)
Due to the size of the UW Greek system, fraternity and sorority members make up a sizeable portion of the local cafes' and bars' clientele, especially such establishments as Earl's and Tommy's Nightclub and Grill, though well outnumbered by the Seattle campus student body of more than 39,250.[27] Other bars have a wider base of patrons, including the College Inn (built for the Alaska-Yukon Exposition in 1909)[28] and the Irish Emigrant. The University District is home to all of the UW's fraternity and sorority houses, most of them clustered along 17th Avenue NE between NE 45th and 50th Streets ("Frat Row" or "Greek Row"). On Thursday (when many Greek parties are held to deter high-schoolers) and Friday nights, it is not uncommon for parties to spill out into the local streets within the area. This reputation draws many crashers, and most of the recent instances of gun violence, injury, and property damage at UW student parties have been due to party crashers getting ejected, in the context of readily available alcohol (and recreational drugs) at large student parties.[29]
The Ave
{{FootnotesSmall|resize=
★ "About the Seattle City Clerk's On-line Information Services"
See heading, "Note about limitations of these data".
★ A culture slips away Ross Anderson
and 'The settlers saw trees, endless trees. The natives saw the spaces between the trees.' Ibid.
★ "About the Experimental College"
★ "University Branch, The Seattle Public Library"
Burrows referenced "Report on Designation” for Landmark Status of the University Library, issued by Karen Gordon [City of Seattle], January 2002.
The following newsclippings, numbered in the scrapbooks as given, are from the Seattle Public Library Archives:
''University District Herald'', April 18, 1941, p. 1 (UN7);
Ibid., April 11, 1941 (UN8);
Ibid., August 14, 1934 (UN9);
Press Release from Nancy L. Wright, Community Relations, Seattle Public Library to Mary Bratton at the ''University District Herald'', Submitted June 16, 1980 (UN13);
Photocopied original program from the opening ceremony August 5, 1910 (UN15);
Robert E. Iams, “History of University Branch As Part of Community Analysis,” November 15, 1979 (UN16);
''University District Herald'' August 1, 1946 (UN20);
Robert E. Iams, “University Branch Library History” ''Flash'' Vol. 23, No. 2 (October 1964)(UN27);
Seattle Public Library Annual Report 1906-1907 16th ed. (UN28);
Seattle Public Library Annual Report 1910-1911 20th ed. (UN30);
Photocopied clipping of unknown publication, (probably ''University District Herald''), October 28, 1921 (UN32);
Editorial, ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', March 7, 1937;
University Library Quarterly Reports, December 1918, October-December 1920, April-June 1921, July-September 1923, October-December 1925, April-June 1932, July-September 1932, and April-December 1933, Seattle Public Library Archives;
University Library Yearly Reports, 1938, 1942, 1944, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1968, 1971, 1972 Seattle Public Library Archives;
Press Release June 25, 1980 from Barbara Erling in the University Branch Library History file, at the University Branch Library;
Alyssa Burrows interview with Michael Delury, University Branch Librarian 1998-Present on December 4, 2002;
Carrie Tuckwood, University Librarian to Alyssa Burrows, December 2002.
★ New lease on hold for U Heights Center Stuart Eskenazi
★ 6 arrests tied to E. African gang: Group had been active in UW area, authorities say Hector Castro
★ Gang arrests made: Members sold drugs and threatened UW students, feds say Hector Castro
★ Seattle takes step on 'alcohol-impact area': City Council votes to ask state to expand zone Hector Castro
★ "Department of Community Development (1600)"
★ "Blue Moon Tavern, An Unofficial Cultural Landmark"
Ctowley referenced Walt Crowley, ''Forever Blue Moon, The Story of Seattle's Most (In)Famous Tavern''. Seattle: Blue Moon, 1992.
★ "McCune, Calmar (1911-1996), unofficial Mayor of the University District"
Crowley referenced Cal McCune, ''From Romance to Riot: A Seattle Memoir''. Seattle: Cal McCune, 1996;
Walt Crowley, ''Rites of Passage, A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle''. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995; author's archives.
★ "University District (Seattle) Street Fair is first held May 23 and 24, 1970"
Crowley referenced ''Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle''. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995;
Paul Dorpat and Walt Crowley, "The Ave: From Streetcars to Street Fairs" (unpublished mss., prepared for University District Chamber of Commerce, 1994).
★ "Duwamish-Seattle"
Page links to Village Descriptions Duwamish-Seattle section.
Dailey referenced "Puget Sound Geography" by T. T. Waterman. Washington DC: National Anthropological Archives, mss. [n.d.] [ref. 2];
''Duwamish et al vs. United States of America, F-275''. Washington DC: US Court of Claims, 1927. [ref. 5];
"Indian Lake Washington" by David Buerge in the ''Seattle Weekly'', 1-7 August 1984 [ref. 8];
"Seattle Before Seattle" by David Buerge in the ''Seattle Weekly'', 17-23 December 1980. [ref. 9];
''The Puyallup-Nisqually'' by Marian W. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. [ref. 10].
Recommended start is "Coast Salish Villages of Puget Sound"
★ "About us"
★ "Seattle Neighborhoods: University District -- Thumbnail History"
Dorpat referenced ''Seattle: Now and Then Vols. 1, 2, and 3''. Seattle: Tartu Publications, 1984, 1988);
Walt Crowley and Paul Dorpat, "The Ave: Streetcars to Street Fairs", typescript dated 1995 in possession of Walt Crowley and Paul Dorpat, Seattle, Washington;
Walt Crowley, ''Rites of Passage''. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995;
Cal McCune, ''From Romance to Riot: A Seattle Memoir''. Seattle: Cal McCune, 1996;
Roy Nielsen, ''UniverCity: The City Within City: The Story of the University District'' Seattle: University Lions Foundation, ca. 1986;
Clark Humphrey, ''Loser: the Real Seattle Music Story''. Portland, OR: Feral House, 1995.
★ Husky Stadium Tom Griffen
★ Empty storefronts litter 'the Ave' Gina Kim
★ "New Google Features / Isernio Sausage / Grand Illusion Cinema"
John Moe interview with Guerren Marter, Grand Illusion Cinema manager.
★ "HISTORY @ UBNA"
★ "FrontPage"
★ Present inconveniences for a promising future: UW athletes are learning to deal with the inconvenience of Hec-Ed renovation Sally Kline
★ "University Heights Elementary School opens in the University District in September 1903."
★ Once Seattle's Second Main Street, the Ave. Has Fallen on Hard Times. Can the UW and Local Community Save What's Left? Jon Marmor
Alumni magazine.
★ "Neptune Theatre"
★ "NoCat.net"
"Seattle Wireless: One of the first community wireless networks, and probably one of the largest."
★ The University of Washington Campus & Vicinity, , , Publication Services & UW Facility Services, University of Washington, Revised July 1996,
★ "Quick Facts"
★ "Big Time Brewery and Alehouse"
Previously retrieved 15 November 2005.
Links to "Seattle's Original Brewpub". Selection from Frommer's Seattle 2006, , Karl, Samson, Wiley, 2006, ISBN 0-7645-9587-3
[Title incremented annually each January].
★ Section III - Historic & Cultural, Master Plan Seattle Campus Final EIS, , , , University of Washington, ,
Master Plan Seattle Campus Final EIS of 'Campus Master Plan'
★ About neighborhood maps
Sources for this atlas and the neighborhood names used in it include a 1980 neighborhood map produced by the Department of Community Development (relocated to the Department of Neighborhoods and other agencies), Seattle Public Library indexes, a 1984-1986 Neighborhood Profiles feature series in the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', numerous parks, land use and transportation planning studies, and records in the Seattle Municipal Archives.
[Maps "NN-1120S", "NN-1130S", "NN-1140S".Jpg [sic] dated 13 June 2002; "NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpg dated 17 June 2002.]
★ "Southern Coast Salish Territories"
"Maps" is part of "American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection", at Libraries Home > Subject > History > Tm > Pacific Northwest History.
★ "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"]
★ "U District Street Fair"
★ "University District"
★ "Public Art & Culture Walking Tour Map, Part 1 of 2, South Side"
★ "Public Art & Culture Walking Tour Map, Part 2 of 2, North Side"
★ "University District Farmers Market"
★ "Northeast Campus Map"
(2) UW Publication Services & UW Facility Services (Revised July 1996)
(3) University of Washington Publication Services (Revised September 1991)
★ The University of Washington Campus & Vicinity, , , University of Washington Publication Services, University of Washington, Revised September 1991,
Compiled, designed, drafted in cooperation between Physical Plant and the Department of Geography, August 1971, revised Sherman (August 1991).
★ "Varsity Theatre"
★ University Chamber of Commerce website
★ University Village website
★ A Local's U District Page (written by a UW alumni and Seattle resident for 4 decades)
University District
The 'University District' (commonly, the 'U District') is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, so named because the main campus of the University of Washington (UW) is located there. The UW moved in two years after the area was annexed to Seattle, while much of the area was still clear cut forest or stump farmland. The district of neighborhoods grew with the university to become a microcosm (for better and worse) of urban American cities.Dorpat
| Contents |
| Historical |
| Contemporary |
| See also |
| Notes |
| References |
| External links |
Historical
University Seafood and Poultry, founded 1945, one of the oldest surviving shops in the District.
Like all Seattle districts, the boundaries of the University District are informal; by common usage, the University District is bounded on the west by Interstate 5; on the east by 25th Avenue NE; on the south by the Lake Washington Ship Canal; and on the north by NE Ravenna Boulevard. It also includes, east of these boundaries, a small district on the north shore of Union Bay, bounded on the north by NE 45th Street and on the east by 35th Avenue NE. This extension consists mainly of the "east campus" and extensive parking lots of the University.[1]Its main commercial street, University Way NE, is known throughout the city as "The Ave" in the "U District".
What is now the University District has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8,000 B.C.E.—10,000 years ago). Prominent Native American Duwamish villages of the Lushootseed (Skagit-Nisqually) Coast Salish nations were on a then-larger Portage Bay at what is now called Brooklyn Avenue, and the other on a larger Union Bay, near the present UW power plant (which is across from the UW IMA building), around the north shores a mile farther than today, and shores east of what is now the Union Bay Natural Area. (See also adjacent Ravenna neighborhood.) The Duwamish,[2] ("People of the Inside") tribe had the prominent village of ''SWAH-tsoo-gweel'' ("portage") on then-adjacent Union Bay, and what is now Ravenna was their backyard before the arrival of European settlers.[3] Villages were diffuse. In spring, people dispersed from their winter villages of longhouses to camps, gathering in summer for salmon. Gaps in the forest were maintained to encourage game and food supplies. Such "prairies" (anthrogenic grasslands) were cultivated in what is now the University District.[4] They were connected by a well-travelled path along what is now the Lake Washington Ship Canal (1883, 1916).
Surveyors noted several large Douglas-firs and western red cedars (given that large trees were not unusual back then, these must have been especially large). The U. District was first surveyed in 1855, and its first white settlers arrived 12 years later. In 1890, that part of the neighborhood due west of the present UW campus was laid out as the Brooklyn Addition. One year later much of the land north of the Ship Canal, including Brooklyn, was annexed to Seattle. The UW moved from Downtown in 1893, and the first university building was built in 1895.
An 1894 report describes a train wreck just west of the current University District. Latona has now been cut off from the University by Interstate 5.
Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern train wreck in the University District, 20 August 1894.
Aug. 20, 1894. Wreck on [the] Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern just west of Latone [now Latona Avenue]. Freight train from Gilman [now Snoqualmie] hit a cow. [Trainload was a] [m]ixer freight train, 10 co[a]l cars, logs and box cars. Train had slowed down at Brooklyn [Avenue] for cows. Engineer saw cows on a bank beyond Latona looking (?) one another[!]. One cow was tossed over [the] bank and hit the track just as [the] engine came by. [The] [e]ngine was raised off the track[,] and when it came down [the] wheels went off the rails. Engineer reversed but [it] was too late. [The] [c]oal tender shot ahead[,] tearing part of [the engine] car [(cab)] off and decapitating [the] fireman and killing [the] brakeman. Engineer and coal passer [were][5] unhurt. Steam and dust enveloped the derailed cars. Engineer ran to Fremont to telegraph to stop [the] evening passenger train[;] also [illegible] Engineer claimed train going 20 miles per hr.[6]
The name "Brooklyn" began to fade soon thereafter. Electric trolley tracks had been laid up Columbus Avenue (later 14th Avenue) in 1892, and the neighborhood soon began to be called "University Station" after the heated waiting house at the corner of what is now NE 42nd Street (1895). The name Brooklyn is not lost, however, for Brooklyn Avenue NE runs parallel to University Way, one block west. North and west of the campus, within the University District, the University Heights—a name now little used—was named for its elementary school (1903–c.1988; since 1990 the University Heights Center for the Community , host for numerous activities small and large.[7]
But for the trolley, in early decades of the U. District Downtown was a trek, a boat, and a horsecart ride away. Given these early transportation difficulties, the U. District was largely self-sufficient, with area businesses for people with ties to the University. Construction of family homes increased in the early 1900s, as did churches, theaters, stores, and a YMCA. The district's first bank and the first local public library opened in 1906, the modest library organized by local merchants.[8]
As a result of a contest held by the University Commercial Club in 1919, 14th Avenue (by then already known as "The Avenue" or "The Ave") was renamed University Way, and the neighborhood was renamed the University District (1919). The neighborhood's north-south arterials are (from west to east) Roosevelt Way NE (southbound)), 11th Avenue NE (northbound), Brooklyn Avenue NE, University Way NE, and 15th Avenue NE. NE Pacific, 45th, and part of 50th streets are principal east-west arterials , NE Campus Parkway is a minor east-west arterial, running only west of the campus.[9]
The Wannabee, one of the U. District's many independent coffeehouses (2006)
Contemporary
Street Fair, 2007
The U District is characterized by the indigenous annual May U District Street Fair] [1], first of its kind in 1971,[10] started by Japanese-American merchant and dedicated peace activist Andy Shiga in 1970,[11] and the University District Farmers Market [2], Seattle's first (1993) and largest local farmers-only neighborhood market.[12] Andy Shiga (1919-1993) of Shiga's Imports and local attorney Calmar McCune (1911-1996) long supported development of the alternative character of the U District.[13] The ASUW Experimental College [3], founded in the college culture of 1968 by a group of UW students seeking education in areas not found in the traditional university environment, is now the largest nonprofit student-run program of its kind. Open to all, it has contributed to the cultural ambience of the U District ever since.[14] The Blue Moon Tavern has become an unofficial cultural landmark, since 1934.[15] Big Time is Seattle's original brewpub (1988).[16] Six theatres (including the Neptune built in 1921,[17] the Varsity since 1940;[18] the Grand Illusion Cinema (founded in a former dental lab in 1968 by Randy Finley[19], now owned and run by dedicated volunteers);[20] and the (locally-owned) Scarecrow Video, the largest video store on the West Coast [21] further characterize the neighborhood. The U District is second only to Capitol Hill as an epicenter for NoCat [4] Free Wi-Fi with the global Seattle Wireless [5] project.
The neighborhood's skyline landmarks (other than the UW campus) are its tallest buildings, the former Safeco Plaza (now owned by the University) and the Meany Hotel (which became the Best Western University Tower and is now Hotel Deca). The former, originally headquarters of Safeco Corporation, is located at the corner of Brooklyn Avenue NE and NE 45th Street. It was built in 1973, and at 22 stories high is the city's tallest building outside Downtown. The latter is Art Deco (1931, restored). The architect Robert Reamer gave every room a corner window.[22] A jewel of the neighborhood is the formal Neo-classical Carnegie Library (1910) on Roosevelt Way at 50th Street.[8]
In recent decades, the University District has suffered commercial decline, due at least in significant part to the more competitive planning, capital investment, and popularity of the University Village shopping center east of the campus, and Northgate Mall about 1-1/2 miles (2-1/2 km) north beside I-5. From 2002 to 2004, the city and the neighborhood have made some steps countering this trend by giving the Ave a repaving facelift including the addition of benches, bus bulbs, and period lighting.[24] The addition of benches represented the reversal of a decades-long neighborhood trend away from providing free places to sit.
Starting in 2016, the district will be serviced by an extension of Link Light Rail called the University Link.[25] The light rail line will will connect the U District with Capitol Hill, Downtown Seattle, Rainier Valley, and Sea-Tac airport. There are currently plans for one station located on Montlake Boulevard in front of Husky Stadium.[26]
The local year-round and seasonal homeless population, referred to as "Ave Rats", is well-known around Seattle. (See The Ave.)
Due to the size of the UW Greek system, fraternity and sorority members make up a sizeable portion of the local cafes' and bars' clientele, especially such establishments as Earl's and Tommy's Nightclub and Grill, though well outnumbered by the Seattle campus student body of more than 39,250.[27] Other bars have a wider base of patrons, including the College Inn (built for the Alaska-Yukon Exposition in 1909)[28] and the Irish Emigrant. The University District is home to all of the UW's fraternity and sorority houses, most of them clustered along 17th Avenue NE between NE 45th and 50th Streets ("Frat Row" or "Greek Row"). On Thursday (when many Greek parties are held to deter high-schoolers) and Friday nights, it is not uncommon for parties to spill out into the local streets within the area. This reputation draws many crashers, and most of the recent instances of gun violence, injury, and property damage at UW student parties have been due to party crashers getting ejected, in the context of readily available alcohol (and recreational drugs) at large student parties.[29]
See also
The Ave
Notes
{{FootnotesSmall|resize=
References
★ "About the Seattle City Clerk's On-line Information Services"
See heading, "Note about limitations of these data".
★ A culture slips away Ross Anderson
and 'The settlers saw trees, endless trees. The natives saw the spaces between the trees.' Ibid.
★ "About the Experimental College"
★ "University Branch, The Seattle Public Library"
Burrows referenced "Report on Designation” for Landmark Status of the University Library, issued by Karen Gordon [City of Seattle], January 2002.
The following newsclippings, numbered in the scrapbooks as given, are from the Seattle Public Library Archives:
''University District Herald'', April 18, 1941, p. 1 (UN7);
Ibid., April 11, 1941 (UN8);
Ibid., August 14, 1934 (UN9);
Press Release from Nancy L. Wright, Community Relations, Seattle Public Library to Mary Bratton at the ''University District Herald'', Submitted June 16, 1980 (UN13);
Photocopied original program from the opening ceremony August 5, 1910 (UN15);
Robert E. Iams, “History of University Branch As Part of Community Analysis,” November 15, 1979 (UN16);
''University District Herald'' August 1, 1946 (UN20);
Robert E. Iams, “University Branch Library History” ''Flash'' Vol. 23, No. 2 (October 1964)(UN27);
Seattle Public Library Annual Report 1906-1907 16th ed. (UN28);
Seattle Public Library Annual Report 1910-1911 20th ed. (UN30);
Photocopied clipping of unknown publication, (probably ''University District Herald''), October 28, 1921 (UN32);
Editorial, ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', March 7, 1937;
University Library Quarterly Reports, December 1918, October-December 1920, April-June 1921, July-September 1923, October-December 1925, April-June 1932, July-September 1932, and April-December 1933, Seattle Public Library Archives;
University Library Yearly Reports, 1938, 1942, 1944, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1968, 1971, 1972 Seattle Public Library Archives;
Press Release June 25, 1980 from Barbara Erling in the University Branch Library History file, at the University Branch Library;
Alyssa Burrows interview with Michael Delury, University Branch Librarian 1998-Present on December 4, 2002;
Carrie Tuckwood, University Librarian to Alyssa Burrows, December 2002.
★ New lease on hold for U Heights Center Stuart Eskenazi
★ 6 arrests tied to E. African gang: Group had been active in UW area, authorities say Hector Castro
★ Gang arrests made: Members sold drugs and threatened UW students, feds say Hector Castro
★ Seattle takes step on 'alcohol-impact area': City Council votes to ask state to expand zone Hector Castro
★ "Department of Community Development (1600)"
★ "Blue Moon Tavern, An Unofficial Cultural Landmark"
Ctowley referenced Walt Crowley, ''Forever Blue Moon, The Story of Seattle's Most (In)Famous Tavern''. Seattle: Blue Moon, 1992.
★ "McCune, Calmar (1911-1996), unofficial Mayor of the University District"
Crowley referenced Cal McCune, ''From Romance to Riot: A Seattle Memoir''. Seattle: Cal McCune, 1996;
Walt Crowley, ''Rites of Passage, A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle''. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995; author's archives.
★ "University District (Seattle) Street Fair is first held May 23 and 24, 1970"
Crowley referenced ''Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle''. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995;
Paul Dorpat and Walt Crowley, "The Ave: From Streetcars to Street Fairs" (unpublished mss., prepared for University District Chamber of Commerce, 1994).
★ "Duwamish-Seattle"
Page links to Village Descriptions Duwamish-Seattle section.
Dailey referenced "Puget Sound Geography" by T. T. Waterman. Washington DC: National Anthropological Archives, mss. [n.d.] [ref. 2];
''Duwamish et al vs. United States of America, F-275''. Washington DC: US Court of Claims, 1927. [ref. 5];
"Indian Lake Washington" by David Buerge in the ''Seattle Weekly'', 1-7 August 1984 [ref. 8];
"Seattle Before Seattle" by David Buerge in the ''Seattle Weekly'', 17-23 December 1980. [ref. 9];
''The Puyallup-Nisqually'' by Marian W. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. [ref. 10].
Recommended start is "Coast Salish Villages of Puget Sound"
★ "About us"
★ "Seattle Neighborhoods: University District -- Thumbnail History"
Dorpat referenced ''Seattle: Now and Then Vols. 1, 2, and 3''. Seattle: Tartu Publications, 1984, 1988);
Walt Crowley and Paul Dorpat, "The Ave: Streetcars to Street Fairs", typescript dated 1995 in possession of Walt Crowley and Paul Dorpat, Seattle, Washington;
Walt Crowley, ''Rites of Passage''. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995;
Cal McCune, ''From Romance to Riot: A Seattle Memoir''. Seattle: Cal McCune, 1996;
Roy Nielsen, ''UniverCity: The City Within City: The Story of the University District'' Seattle: University Lions Foundation, ca. 1986;
Clark Humphrey, ''Loser: the Real Seattle Music Story''. Portland, OR: Feral House, 1995.
★ Husky Stadium Tom Griffen
★ Empty storefronts litter 'the Ave' Gina Kim
★ "New Google Features / Isernio Sausage / Grand Illusion Cinema"
John Moe interview with Guerren Marter, Grand Illusion Cinema manager.
★ "HISTORY @ UBNA"
★ "FrontPage"
★ Present inconveniences for a promising future: UW athletes are learning to deal with the inconvenience of Hec-Ed renovation Sally Kline
★ "University Heights Elementary School opens in the University District in September 1903."
★ Once Seattle's Second Main Street, the Ave. Has Fallen on Hard Times. Can the UW and Local Community Save What's Left? Jon Marmor
Alumni magazine.
★ "Neptune Theatre"
★ "NoCat.net"
"Seattle Wireless: One of the first community wireless networks, and probably one of the largest."
★ The University of Washington Campus & Vicinity, , , Publication Services & UW Facility Services, University of Washington, Revised July 1996,
★ "Quick Facts"
★ "Big Time Brewery and Alehouse"
Previously retrieved 15 November 2005.
Links to "Seattle's Original Brewpub". Selection from Frommer's Seattle 2006, , Karl, Samson, Wiley, 2006, ISBN 0-7645-9587-3
[Title incremented annually each January].
★ Section III - Historic & Cultural, Master Plan Seattle Campus Final EIS, , , , University of Washington, ,
Master Plan Seattle Campus Final EIS of 'Campus Master Plan'
★ About neighborhood maps
Sources for this atlas and the neighborhood names used in it include a 1980 neighborhood map produced by the Department of Community Development (relocated to the Department of Neighborhoods and other agencies), Seattle Public Library indexes, a 1984-1986 Neighborhood Profiles feature series in the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', numerous parks, land use and transportation planning studies, and records in the Seattle Municipal Archives.
[Maps "NN-1120S", "NN-1130S", "NN-1140S".Jpg [sic] dated 13 June 2002; "NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpg dated 17 June 2002.]
★ "Southern Coast Salish Territories"
"Maps" is part of "American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection", at Libraries Home > Subject > History > Tm > Pacific Northwest History.
★ "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"
★ "U District Street Fair"
★ "University District"
★ "Public Art & Culture Walking Tour Map, Part 1 of 2, South Side"
★ "Public Art & Culture Walking Tour Map, Part 2 of 2, North Side"
★ "University District Farmers Market"
★ "Northeast Campus Map"
(2) UW Publication Services & UW Facility Services (Revised July 1996)
(3) University of Washington Publication Services (Revised September 1991)
★ The University of Washington Campus & Vicinity, , , University of Washington Publication Services, University of Washington, Revised September 1991,
Compiled, designed, drafted in cooperation between Physical Plant and the Department of Geography, August 1971, revised Sherman (August 1991).
★ "Varsity Theatre"
External links
★ University Chamber of Commerce website
★ University Village website
★ A Local's U District Page (written by a UW alumni and Seattle resident for 4 decades)
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