Delridge, Seattle, Washington
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Delridge is an informal district of neighborhoods in West Seattle, Washington, bounded by the Duwamish River to the north and east, unincorporated White Center to the south, and West Seattle to the west, generally along 35th Avenue SW. Delridge includes the neighborhoods of (north to south, east to west) North Delridge, Riverview, High Point, Highland Park, South Delridge, and Roxhill.
Delridge may also be defined by land use, with the primarily residential and open space Delridge district extending west from W Marginal Way SW, and the heavy industrial-zoned lower Duwamish Waterway east of Marginal Way and north of SW Spokane Street as part of the adjacent Industrial District.[1]
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[edit] Delridge neighborhoods
- High Point
- Highland Park
- North Delridge (Youngstown)
- Riverview (South Seattle Community College)
- Roxhill
- South Delridge (Westwood)[1]
[edit] High Point
- See also: High Point, Seattle, Washington
High Point is so named because it has one of the highest points in Seattle, 520 feet (158 m) above sea level.
[edit] Highland Park
Highland Park is traditionally a working-class neighborhood, due to its proximity to Boeing Field and other employers in the Industrial District. As with White Center immediately to the south, it now features wide demographic and ethnic diversity.
Near Highland Park is Westcrest Park, which has a dog park or off-leash dog area.
[edit] Riverview
South Seattle Community College (1970) is in Riverview; the college is notable for innovative horticulture and the South Seattle Community College Arboretum. The Seattle Chinese Garden borders the Arboretum. The gardens are on the bluff overlooking the Duwamish River.[2]
[edit] Roxhill
Longfellow Creek flows through Roxhill Park.
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[edit] Westwood (South Delridge)
The surface source of Longfellow Creek is in Westwood.
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[edit] Youngstown (North Delridge)
Youngstown neighborhood is the dell through which Longfellow Creek flows to the mudflats of the Duwamish River estuary. The neighborhood was rough and rowdy in the early years of White settlement, built in the 1900s for the immigrant steelworkers at nearby Seattle Steel (later long Bethlehem Steel, now Nucor Steel). The Delridge neighborhood features the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center (1999), developed and opened in 2006 by the nonprofit Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association in Frank B. Cooper School (Youngstown School, 1917, renamed 1939) on Delridge Way. The school is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ a b (1) "Greater Duwamish". HistoryLink Neighborhoods (n.d.). Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
(2) "Delridge". Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas. Office of the Seattle City Clerk (n.d., map .jpg dated c. 2002-06-15). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
(3) "South Portion of City". Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas. Office of the Seattle City Clerk (n.d., map .jpg dated c. 2002-06-15). Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
Maps "NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpg 17 June 2002; Maps "NN-1120S", "NN-1130S", "NN-1140S".Jpg [sic] 13 June.
(4) "About the Seattle City Clerk's On-line Information Services". Information Services. Seattle City Clerk's Office (Revised 2006-04-30). Retrieved on 2006-05-21.
See heading, "Note about limitations of these data".
(5) Shenk, Polack, Dornfield, Frantilla, Neman (2002). - ^ "South Seattle Community College Arboretum" (2005-09-12). Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
- ^ (1) "Youngstown Cultural Arts Center". Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
(2) "History". About > History. Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
[edit] Bibliography
- Shenk, Carol; Pollack, Laurie; Dornfeld, Ernie; Frantilla, Anne; and Neman, Chris (2002-06-26, maps .jpg c. 2002-06-15). "About neighborhood maps". Seattle City Clerk's Office Neighborhood Map Atlas. Office of the Seattle City Clerk, Information Services. Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
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 [1]), 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 [2].
Complete detail of sources (with links) for Shenk et al in Seattle neighborhoods#Informal districts and Bibliography
[edit] Further reading
- Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association
- Neighborhoods at HistoryLink.org Online Encylopedia of Washington State History
- "Southwest Seattle". HistoryLink Neighborhoods (n.d.). Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
- "Delridge & Westwood". HistoryLink Neighborhoods (n.d.). Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
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