Ravenna

Ravenna is a neighborhood in northeastern Seattle, Washington, named after Ravenna, Italy. Incorporated in 1906 and annexed to Seattle in 1907, the quiet neighborhood is almost entirely residential, with several restaurants located along the busiest streets. Many of the residents are graduate students at the University of Washington, which is about a mile and a half to the south. Its main distinction is restored Cowen Park-Ravenna Park, a destination or an aside on a walking or biking route between Green Lake and U Village, crossing the Burke-Gilman Trail.^[1] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (394x698, 13 KB)Map of Seattle, Washington with Ravenna neighborhood highlighted. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (394x698, 13 KB)Map of Seattle, Washington with Ravenna neighborhood highlighted. ... Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. ... Seattle redirects here. ... Ravenna is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... A residential area is a type of land use where the predominant use is residential. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a major public research university in Seattle, Washington. ... Cowen Park is an 8. ... Fall foliage and trail, from the 20th Avenue NE Bridge Ravenna Park is a 49. ... Categories: Stub | Seattle parks ... University Village University Village is an upscale shopping center in Seattle, Washington, USA as well as its surrounding neighborhood. ... The Burke-Gilman Trail is a 17-mile bike path and recreational trail in King County, Washington that runs from 11th Avenue N.W. and N.W. 45th Street in Seattles Ballard neighborhood to Blyth Park in Bothell. ...

Ravenna and Ravenna-Bryant

Ravenna and Bryant are bounded on the west by 15th and 20th Avenues NE, beyond which lies Roosevelt neighborhood; on the north by NE 75th and 85th Streets, beyond which lie Maple Leaf and Wedgwood; on the east by 35th and 25th Avenues NE, beyond which lies Hawthorne Hills, Windermere, and Sand Point^[2] (or Bryant neighborhood in between Ravenna and neighbborhoods east);^[3] and on the south by NE Ravenna Boulevard, NE Blakeley or NE 45th streets, and Calvary Cemetery, beyond which lie the University District and sometimes University Village shopping center (boundaries are informal).^[4] Bryant, or Ravenna-Bryant, extends the neighborhood east to 45th Avenue, south of 75th Street and north of Sand Point Way.^[5] That portion of south-central Ravenna adjacent to the University Village shopping complex is often considered part of the University Village neighborhood{{Citation needed}}, and Ravenna east of 25th Avenue NE is also referred to as Bryant or Ravenna-Bryant.^[6] The Roosevelt district is a neighborhood in north-central Seattle, Washington. ... Maple Leaf is a neighborhood in Seattle. ... Wedgwood Wedgwood is a neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, located about two miles (3 km) north, and slightly east, of the University of Washington; it is about 6 miles (10 km) northeast of downtown. ... Hawthorne Hills is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington bounded on the north by NE 65th Street, on the south and east by the Burke-Gilman Trail, and on the west by 40th Avenue NE. There are many Cape Cod-style houses built in the 1940s for the influx of Boeing... Windermere is a well-to-do residential neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, named after Lake Windermere in Englands Lake District. ... Sand Point is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, named after and consisting mostly of the Sand Point peninsula that juts into Lake Washington, which is itself largely given over to Magnuson Park. ... Calvary Cemetery with University of Washington residence towers in background Calvary Cemetery is a 40-acre cemetery located in the Ravenna/Bryant neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA, on the southwest slope of a hill overlooking University Village. ... University District The University District is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, so named because the main campus of the University of Washington is located there. ... University Village University Village is an upscale shopping center in Seattle, Washington, USA as well as its surrounding neighborhood. ... Bryant Bryant is a residential neighborhood in northeast Seattle, Washington. ...

The principal arterial is 25th Avenue NE; minor arterials are 15th and 35th Avenues, and NE 65th Street; 40th Avenue NE and NE 55th Street are collector arterials.^[7] Besides the eponymous boulevard, its most well-known street is Candy Cane Lane. On the length of Park Road (one block and a little roundabout), for a few weeks of the year the lane has been commemorating the Christmas season since 1951, bringing bumper-to-bumper traffic to the boulevard on snowy nights.^[8] The 20th Avenue collector arterial has beecome increasingly bike- and pedestrian-friendly with the closure of the park bridge to motor vehicles (1975).^[9] (Ravenna Boulevard is a popular bikeway.) It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with traffic circle. ...

There are small commercial clusters on 25th Avenue between Blakeley and 55th, on 55th east of 25th, on 65th between 20th and 25th, and along Blakeley. (An eponymous grocery has been at the same location on the boulevard since the 1920s.)^[10] Most emblematic of the neighborhood are Queen Mary, serving Victorian English Tea,^[11] the Duchess Tavern (1934) (along with the Blue Moon, the oldest still-extant around the University of Washington), and that the only Volvo dealership in town is family-owned, and in Ravenna-Bryant.^[12]

Cowen Park–Ravenna Park and Ravenna Creek

The jewel of these neighborhoods is Ravenna Park, (including the obscure little neighborhood of Cowen Park, southeast Roosevelt, tucked just north of University Heights neighborhood). Conjoined Cowen Park-Ravenna Park is located at the southwest corner of Ravenna–Ravenna-Bryant, reaching from beyond the source of Ravenna Creek beside nearby Brooklyn Avenue and Ravenna Boulevard, under the 15th Avenue bridge to 25th Avenue NE. Cowen-Ravenna parks are integral; the distinction with respect to topography is arbirtary. For many decades of early Seattle, the park ravine had been ignored by loggers and farmers and still possessed old-growth timber rising nearly 400 feet.^[13] The trees remained through their featuring in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1908, until the controversy about them was ended in suspicious circumstances (1926).^[14] The trees of the parks were a very big deal, whose legacy helped save Seward and Carkeek, and fuel the restoration efforts of citizens of the city these decades later.^[15] Today, a single Sierra Redwood stands over the Medicinal Herb Garden on the south end of the UW campus, at 106 feet a little over a quarter of the height of those of Cowen Park-Ravenna Park.^[16] Cowen Park is an 8. ... Fall foliage and trail, from the 20th Avenue NE Bridge Ravenna Park is a 49. ... Ravenna Creek is a stream in the Ravenna and Roosevelt neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington, USA, whose present length of nearly 3500 feet is entirely within the boundaries of Cowen and Ravenna Parks. ... Cowen Park is an 8. ... Fall foliage and trail, from the 20th Avenue NE Bridge Ravenna Park is a 49. ... Binomial name Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a major public research university in Seattle, Washington. ... Cowen Park is an 8. ... Fall foliage and trail, from the 20th Avenue NE Bridge Ravenna Park is a 49. ...

The creek original source was Green Lake, from Haller Lake, then the Cowen Park ravine west wall when city streams were diverted to sewers c. 1948.^[17] The Cowen Park ravine was largely filled using freeway construction spoils c. 1965. Since 1991, the park has seen major restoration by activist neighbors together with the city:^[18] Toward restoring the native fish runs and "daylighting" the creek to its mouth in University Slough in the Union Bay Natural Area. Restoration has included trails, creek daylighting, and riparian habitat in the park.^[19] Completion of downstream daylighting and restoration of migrating fish has been blocked by the owners of University Village.^[20] Green Lake Green Lake is a neighborhood in north central Seattle, Washington, USA. Its centerpiece is the lake and park after which it is named. ... Haller Lake is a small lake and neighborhood in north central Seattle, Washington, named for Theodore N. Haller, who platted the neighborhood in 1905. ... University Slough (Drainage Canal) beside the Union Bay Natural Area (UBNA) is more accurately one of three areas of open water connected with Lake Washington around Union Bay Marsh, on the east of the main campus of the University of Washington (UW), in Seattle. ...

Further reading

See also Burke-Gilman Trail The Burke-Gilman Trail is a 17-mile bike path and recreational trail in King County, Washington that runs from 11th Avenue N.W. and N.W. 45th Street in Seattles Ballard neighborhood to Blyth Park in Bothell. ...

• Dolan, Maria & True, Kathryn (2003). Nature in the city: Seattle. Seattle: Mountaineers Books. ISBN 0-89886-879-3 (paperback). Particularly useful.
• Salisbury, Chukundi (updated 11 May 2005). "Ravenna & Cowen Parks Trails", "The Trails Program Trail Maps". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
• Walter, Sunny & local Audubon chapters (updated 10 February 2006). "Sunny Walter's Washington Nature Weekends: Wildlife Viewing Locations - Greater Seattle Area". Retrieved 21 April 2006. Walter excerpted from Dolan, Maria & True, Kathryn (2003). Nature in the city: Seattle. Seattle: Mountaineers Books. ISBN 0-89886-879-3 (paperback).
  [with additions by Sunny Walter and local Audubon chapters.]

References

1. ^ Seattle DOT Bicycle Program (2005). "Seattle's Urban Trail System, January 2004". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
2. ^ Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas (n.d.). "Ravenna". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
3. ^ Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas (n.d.). "Bryant". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
4. ^ (1) [1]
   (2) "About the Seattle City Clerk's On-line Information Services", Information Services, Seattle City Clerk's Office. Retrieved 21 April 2006. See heading, "Note about limitations of these data".
5. ^ [2]
6. ^ Wilma, David (20 August 2001). Seattle Neighborhoods: Ravenna - Roosevelt -- Thumbnail History. Retrieved 21 April 2006.
   Wilma referenced an extensive list; see the Bihliography entry for the complete citation.
7. ^ Seattle Department of Transportation (2005). "Principal, Minor and Collector arterials". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
   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.
   Legend Definitions - Planned Arterials Map, 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.[pdf note]
8. ^ Hook, Jamie (23 November 2000). "Obsession & Lights, True Story of". The Stranger. Retrieved 21 April 2006.
9. ^ Engineering Department, Traffic and Transportation Division, Study : 20th Avenue N.E. bridge closure. Seattle, WA: The Dept., 1975.
10. ^ Lund, Abby (15 March 2006). "Not just another neighborhood grocery store - Boulevard Grocery finds its niche after decades in Ravenna". North Seattle Herald-Outlook. Retrieved 21 April 2006.
11. ^ There are two varieties of English Tea.
    Afternoon Tea: Attributed to the Duchess of Bedford, mid-19th c. Inintially this was a tray of tea with bread and butter served in the mid-afternoon, soon developed into including "dainties" and scones now familiar with English Tea. Lunch was served at noon but dinner was not taken until 8 or even 9 p.m. (as it still is today, {European} Continental Style). Afternoon Tea is a custom from the English leisure class.
    High Tea: Served later, around six p.m, is a full—but light—dinner meal for more common people, served in some elegance. Tea was still served, but there would also be variouss compbinations of meats, fish, eggs, cheese-, bread and butter, and cakes. Both have become popular today for fair weather and weekends at home. Very Ravenna. [Paajanen, Sean (n.d.). "High Tea vs. Afternoon Tea", "Coffee / Tea". About, Inc., of The New York Times Company. Retrieved 21 April 2006.]
12. ^ Higgins, Mark (6 Decemeber 1997). "Area is quintessential Seattle", "Neighbors: Ravenna". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Updated at "From middle-class houses to mansions" (n.d.). Retrieved 21 April 2006.
13. ^ Douglas-fir, 100 m (393 ft), per article. The ravine also had tall Western hemlock, spruce, and Western Redcedar, a misnamed cypress.
14. ^ [3]
15. ^ Dolan & True, p. 142.
16. ^ Dolan & True, p. 144.
17. ^ The water table is relatively shallow, held by the extensive layer of clays that underlay the metro region. The creek actually seeps from the west wall of the ravine, even though the gulch has been partially filled at the southwest corner of Cowen Park.[Dolan & True, p. 143.]
18. ^ (1) Dolan, Maria & True, Kathryn (2003). "Raising the Dead: Ravenna Park and Creek" in Nature in the city: Seattle, pp. 142–3. Seattle: Mountaineers Books. ISBN 0-89886-879-3 (paperback).
    (2) [4]
19. ^ (1) Dolan & True
    (2) O'Neil, Kit, University Community Urban Center, (n.d. [1997 per http://home.earthlink.net/~ravennacreek/chronology.htm]). "Ravenna Creek Daylighting Project". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
    (3) Ravenna Creek Alliance (9 November 2005) "Chronology". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
    (4) Ravenna Creek Alliance (9 November 2005) "Ravenna Creek Alliance: Specific Info". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
    (5) Whittemore Thomas (n.d.). "Measure water quality parameters", Science Service Learning, University of Washington Chemistry Department. Retrieved 21 April 2006.
20. ^ (1) Ravenna Creek Alliance (9 November 2005) "Ravenna Creek Alliance: Specific Info". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
    (2) [5]

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Bibliography

• "About the Seattle City Clerk's On-line Information Services", Information Services, Seattle City Clerk's Office. Retrieved 21 April 2006. See heading, "Note about limitations of these data".
• "Aerial Photo" of Ravenna Park and the greater University District to Union Bay-Portage Bay. (Date not found), retrieved 21 April 2006.
• City of Seattle Department of Transportation (12 January 2004) "Planned Arterials Map Legend Definitions". Retrieved 21 April 2006. Listed on City of Seattle Street Classification Maps, see [pdf note].
• Dolan, Maria & True, Kathryn (2003). Nature in the city: Seattle. Seattle: Mountaineers Books, pp. 142–143. ISBN 0-89886-879-3 (paperback).
• Engineering Department, Traffic and Transportation Division, Study : 20th Avenue N.E. bridge closure. Seattle, WA: The Dept., 1975.
• Higgins, Mark (6 December 1997). "Area is quintessential Seattle", "Neighbors: Ravenna". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Updated at "From middle-class houses to mansions" (n.d.). Retrieved 21 April 2006.
• Hook, Jamie (23 November 2000). "Obsession & Lights, True Story of". The Stranger. Retrieved 21 April 2006.
• Lund, Abby (15 March 2006). "Not just another neighborhood grocery store - Boulevard Grocery finds its niche after decades in Ravenna". North Seattle Herald-Outlook. Retrieved 21 April 2006.
• O'Neil, Kit, University Community Urban Center, (n.d. [1997 per http://home.earthlink.net/~ravennacreek/chronology.htm]). "Ravenna Creek Daylighting Project". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
• Paajanen, Sean (n.d.). "High Tea vs. Afternoon Tea", Coffee / Tea. About, Inc., a part of The New York Times Company. Retrieved 21 April 2006.
• Ravenna Creek Alliance (9 November 2005) "Chronology". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
• Ravenna Creek Alliance (9 November 2005) "Ravenna Creek Alliance: Specific Info". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
• Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas (n.d.). "Bryant". Retrieved 21 April 2006. Note caveat in footer.
• Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas (n.d.). "Ravenna". Retrieved 21 April 2006. Note caveat in footer.
• Seattle Department of Transportation (2005). "Principal, Minor and Collector arterials". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
  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.
  Legend Definitions - Planned Arterials Map, 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 iewing.[pdf note]
• Seattle DOT Bicycle Program (2005). "Seattle's Urban Trail System, January 2004". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
• Whittemore Thomas (n.d.). "Measure water quality parameters", Science Service Learning, University of Washington Chemistry Department. Retrieved 21 April 2006.
• Wilma, David (20 August 2001). Seattle Neighborhoods: Ravenna - Roosevelt -- Thumbnail History. Retrieved 21 April 2006. Wilma referenced "Calvary Cemetery", Historylink Metropedia Library (www.Historylink.org);
  "Ravenna Post Office", Historylink Timeline Library (www.Historylink.org);
  "City of Seattle Annexes Town of Ravenna", Ibid.;
  "Methodists Form Congregation in Ravenna Neighborhood", Ibid.;
  "University District", Historylink Magic Lantern Library (www.Historylink.org);
  Keming Kuo, "Beautiful Trees Cut To 'Line Someone's Pocket'", The Seattle Times, 29 June 1977;
  "Removal of Trees Protested", Ibid., 23 November 1926;
  "Removal of Giant Trees Would Be Crime", Ibid., 4 November 1926;
  "Roosevelt Park Again Ravenna", ibid., 29 May 1931;
  "Sears To Close Roosevelt Store", > Ibid., 1 November 1979;
  Shareen Singh, "Area's Metaphysical Bent Is Well Known", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 12 September 1998, Neighbors (project 1996-2000);
  Margaret Pitcairn Strachan, "Roosevelt-Ravenna Are Bustling Areas", The Seattle Sunday Times, 7 July 1946, p. 5;
  Seattle School Histories, 1869-1974 ed. by Sara Levant (Seattle: Seattle Public Schools, 1974).