Talk:Westlake Park (Seattle)

Earliest mention
I found a fascinating article in the January 19, 1907 Seattle Times, "Flatiron in the Way". It describes how property owners were building back from the lot line around the new commercial district at the south end of the Denny Regrade. The one problem was that C. D. Stimson had a building already under construction. It was where Westlake Park is today, the triangle bounded by Pine, 4th, and Westlake. Because it was a triangle, if Stimson pushed his building back 12 feet as was requested there would not be enough room to develop. So other property owners in the area proposed buying the property and turning it into a park. A subtitle to the article was "In its stead they would create an Uptown Pioneer Place -- Scheme will meet with decided opposition"

Clearly that did not happen. But in 1907 they already had the vision for Westlake Park that resurfaced in the 1950s and 1960s.

Incidentally, Stimson's building was commercial first floor and hotel above. He sold it along with another new building across Westlake in 1908 to a new hotel company who turned them into the Hotel Georgian and Hotel Georgian Annex (the triangle).

Roket (talk) 15:02, 11 November 2020 (UTC)