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About Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill is a hill and neighborhood in southeast Seattle, Washington. The
municipal government subdivides it into North Beacon Hill, Mid-Beacon Hill,
Holly Park, and South Beacon Hill,[1] though most people who live there describe
their neighborhood as simply "Beacon Hill." Home to the world headquarters of
Amazon.com and the Seattle Division of the Department of Veterans Affairs' Puget
Sound Health Care System, the hill offers views of downtown, the Industrial
District, Elliott Bay, First Hill, Rainier Valley, and, when the weather is
good, Mount Rainier and the Olympic Mountains. It is bounded on the west by
Interstate 5, on the north by Interstate 90, on the east by Rainier Avenue S.,
Cheasty Boulevard S., and Martin Luther King Jr. Way S., and on the south by the
Seattle city limits. Homes in the northern part of the hill were mostly built in
the early 1900s, and so North Beacon Hill contains many excellent examples of
Craftsman bungalows and "Seattle box houses" (a local variant of the Foursquare
style).
History
The hill was originally named Holgate and Hanford Hill after two early settlers,
John Holgate and Edward Hanford, who settled in the area in the 1850s[2] and are
commemorated to this day by South Holgate and Hanford Streets on North Beacon
Hill. A later arrival, M. Harwood Young, named the hill after the Beacon Hill in
his hometown, Boston, Massachusetts.
Demographics
Beacon Hill has, throughout its history, been home to successive waves of
immigrants. In the mid to late 20th century, the district became predominantly
Asian, and this can still be seen today in the many Chinese, Vietnamese,
Japanese, and Filipino shops, restaurants, and other businesses that line Beacon
Avenue South. According to the United States 2000 Census, the population of
Beacon Hill is 22,300, and remains racially diverse: 51% Asian, 20% white, 13%
black, 9% Hispanic/Latino and 7% other. [3]
Landmarks and institutions
* Jefferson Park: Golf, lawn bowling, open space
* Dr. Jose Rizal Park: views overlooking downtown[4]
* El Centro de la Raza, in the former Beacon Hill School[5]
* Beacon Hill First Baptist Church[6]: a designated historic landmark Tudor
Revival building built in 1910, designed by notable architect Ellsworth Storey
* The Frank D. Black property: designated landmark cobblestone structures built
in 1914
* Cheasty Greenbelt/Cheasty Boulevard Trail
Nearby neighborhoods
* Columbia City
* Downtown Seattle
* First Hill
* Georgetown
* Industrial District (see also SoDo)
* International District/Chinatown
* Judkins Park
* Mount Baker
* Rainier Valley
* SoDo
Notes
1. ^ Beacon Hill. Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas. City Clerk's
Office, City of Seattle. Retrieved on 2005-09-03.
2. ^ George Lange (November 10, 2000). John Holgate explores the Duwamish River
by canoe but does not stake King County land claim during the summer of 1850.
Essay 1749. HistoryLink.org. Retrieved on 2005-09-03.
3. ^ 2000 Census Data: Beacon Hill. Retrieved on 2005-09-03.
4. ^ David Wilma (April 5, 2001). Rizal Park. Essay 3168, Online Encyclopedia of
Washington State History. Retrieved on 2005-09-03.
5. ^ David Wilma (August 2, 2000). Chicano activists occupy abandoned school
that becomes El Centro on October 11, 1972. Essay 2588, Online Encyclopedia of
Washington State History. HistoryLink.org. Retrieved on 2005-09-03.
6. ^ David Wilma (April 17, 2002). Seattle Landmarks: Beacon Hill First Baptist
Church (1910). Essay 3216, Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History.
HistoryLink.org. Retrieved on 2005-09-03.
7. ^ David Wilma (April 23, 2001). Seattle Landmarks: Frank D. Black Property
(1914). Essay 3226, Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History.
HistoryLink.org. Retrieved on 2005-09-03.