Lower Queen Anne

Lower Queen Anne is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, at the base of Queen Anne Hill. While its boundaries are not precise, the toponym usually refers to the shopping, office, and residential districts to the north and west of Seattle Center. The districts to the west of the Center are also known as Uptown. The neighborhood is connected to Upper Queen Anne--the shopping district at the top of the hill--by an extremely steep section of Queen Anne Avenue N. known as the Counterbalance, in memory of the cable cars that once ran up and down it. Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. ... Seattle skyline City nickname: The Emerald City Location of Seattle in King County and Washington State County King Mayor Greg Nickels Area  - Land  - Water 369. ... Queen Anne Hill is the highest named hill in Seattle, Washington, with a maximum elevation of 456 feet (139 m), though the highest point in the city is the aptly named High Point in West Seattle, at 520 feet (158 m). ... In geography and cartography, a toponym is a place name, a geographical name, a proper name of locality, region, or some other part of Earths surface or its natural or artificial feature. ... Center House, Seattle Center Seattle Center is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington, on the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. ... Cable car can mean: a street railway system using a cable in the road to pull the cars along; see cable car (railway). ...

While "Lower Queen Anne" and "Uptown" are rarely used to refer to the grounds of Seattle Center itself, many of Seattle Center's leading attractions abut the neighborhood; these include KeyArena (home of the Seattle Supersonics, Seattle Storm, and Seattle Thunderbirds sports teams), the Exhibition Hall, McCaw Hall (home of the Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet), the Intiman Playhouse (home of the Intiman theater company), and the Bagley-Wright Theater (home of Seattle Repertory Theater), as well as the Mercer Arena. KeyArena is located north of downtown Seattle, USA on the grounds of Seattle Center (the site of 1962s Century 21 Exposition, a Worlds Fair). ... The Seattle SuperSonics are a National Basketball Association team based in Seattle, Washington, USA. Founded: 1967 Also known as: The Sonics Home Arena: KeyArena Uniform colors: Green and yellow Logo design: A green circle, with a yellow basketball, a white S superimposed NBA Championships: 1979 Coach: Nate McMillan 2004-05... The Seattle Storm is a professional womens basketball team that plays in the Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA). ... The Seattle Thunderbirds are an ice hockey team in Seattle, Washington that belongs to the Western Hockey League. ... The Seattle Opera is an opera company located in Seattle, Washington. ... The Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington. ...

Lower Queen Anne also has a three-screen movie theater and On the Boards, a center for avant-garde theater and music. A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ...

Largely because of its proximity to Seattle Center, Lower Queen Anne is home to some 100 restaurants, bars, and fast-food locations. It is also home to numerous small-to-medium-sized high-tech companies, several of them with major investments from Paul Allen. It was the home of Quicksoft, the first company to score commercial success with shareware. Paul Allen Paul G. Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an entrepreneur who first established himself by co-founding Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates. ... Shareware is a marketing method for software, whereby a trial version is distributed without payment ahead of time as is common for proprietary software. ...

External links

• Queen Anne Historical Society (http://qahistory.org/)