User:Lexchis/The Highlands (Seattle)

The Highlands is a private residential community in Northwest Seattle overlooking Puget Sound. The neighborhood's 498 acres were designed by the Olmsted Brothers in 1907 and contain 102 homes, a preschool, a non-denominational chapel, several large reserves, a 16 acre park, walking trails and a commons area with tennis courts, play fields, swimming pool, wading pool, bath houses and picnic grounds. Lot sizes range from 0.9 acres to 9.8 acres. Homes date from 1907 to 2007, and many have been substantially remodeled and updated. The Highlands straddles the boundary between Seattle proper and the city of Shoreline, which abuts Seattle to the north. The Highlands is bounded on the west by high bluff overlooking Puget Sound and the BNSF Railway line; on the east, it is bounded by the Seattle Golf Club; on the south, by the Broadview neighborhood; on the north, by the Innis Arden and Richmond Highlands neighborhoods. Boeing Creek runs along the north edge of The Highlands.