Evergreen Point Floating Bridge

Pioneer Hall is an historic building in the Madison Park neighborhood of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Madison Park is an 8.3 acre (34,000 m²) park in the Madison Park neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, located between the western shore of Lake Washington on the east, 42nd Avenue E. on the west, E. Madison Street on the north, and E. Blaine Street on the south. 43rd Avenue E. divides it into two sections; the east is a swimming beach and public dock, and the west is a playground, playfield, and tennis courts. Next to the beach is Madison Park Co-op, a community playhouse for toddlers and children. For the first 19 years of its existence, the Madison Street Cable Railway ran on Madison Street from Elliott Bay to the park. Service was cut back to 21st Avenue in 1910. There was also ferry service on Lake Washington from the early 1880s to August 31, 1950 from Madison Park across the lake to Kirkland. (The construction of the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge in 1940 had greatly reduced demand and the continued existence of the run could no longer be justified after tolls were removed in 1949.)

Evergreen Point is the westernmost of a group of three small peninsulas on the east side of Lake Washington, King County, Washington. It is situated between the main body of the lake and Fairweather Bay. Most notable for being the namesake of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, it is part of the city of Medina.

Madison Park is a neighborhood in east central Seattle, Washington, USA, named after the city park at the foot of E. Madison Street on the Lake Washington shore. It is bounded on the east by Lake Washington; on the south by the intersection of Lake Washington Boulevard E. and 39th Avenue E., beyond which is Denny-Blaine; on the west by Lake Washington Boulevard E.; and on the north by Union Bay. Washington Park and the private Broadmoor community and golf course are subunits within Madison Park. The neighborhood's main thoroughfares are E. Madison Street (northeast- and southwest-bound) and McGilvra Boulevard E. (north- and southbound). Madison Park in the early 1900s was a popular destination for people who lived in Downtown Seattle and continues to draw from Capitol Hill and beyond, especially on warmer days. Though very close to the city center, it was seen as a summer getaway, with a cable car leading over the hills to the lake, park, swimming beach and ferries to destinations across Lake Washington. Today, Madison Park is an upscale residential community with a number of restaurants and eateries. Madison Park's Pioneer Hall (also known as Washington Pioneer Hall) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, ID #70000645.

Allied Arts of Seattle is a non-profit organization in Seattle, Washington, USA. The organization advocates for public funding of the arts, better urban planning and architecture, and other civic improvements. The organization claims to be the "oldest non-profit organization in Seattle dedicated to urban livability", but, in any case, at 50+ years old is certainly a venerable organization by the standards of a city barely older than 150 years It was a major force in establishing the Seattle Arts Commission, creating Seattle Center on the grounds of the Century 21 Exposition (1962 world's fair) and preserving historical landmarks and neighborhoods, particularly Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market, as well as defeating the 2012 Seattle Olympic bid.

Bill and Melinda Gates own a mansion that overlooks Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) mansion incorporates technology in its design.In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US $1.063 million on a total assessed value of US $147.5 million.

Lake Washington is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the largest lake in King County and the second largest natural lake in the state of Washington, after Lake Chelan. It borders the cities of Seattle on the west, Bellevue and Kirkland on the east, Renton on the south, and Kenmore on the north, and encloses Mercer Island. The lake is fed by the Sammamish River at its north end and the Cedar River at its south. Lake Washington received its present name in 1854 after Thomas Mercer suggested it be named after George Washington, as the new Washington Territory had been named the year before. Earlier names for the lake include the Duwamish name Xacuabš (Lushootseed: literally "xacu" great-amount-of-water + "abš" people), which referred to peoples who stayed along the coastline of Lake Washington, as well as Lake Geneva by Isaac N. Ebey;: 140  Lake Duwamish in railroad surveys under Governor Isaac Stevens;: 174  At-sar-kal in a map sketched by engineer Abiel W. Tinkham;: 10  and the Chinook Jargon name, "Hyas Chuck," or "It-Kow-Chug": 121  'big lake'.The lake provides boating and sport fishing opportunities. Some fish species found in its waters include sockeye salmon, coho salmon, Chinook salmon, rainbow trout, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, and black crappie.Lake Washington has two passenger seaplane bases: Kenmore Air Harbor on its north end; and Will Rogers – Wiley Post Memorial Seaplane Base on its south end, adjacent to Renton Municipal Airport.

Samuel Hyde House is a building at 3726 East Madison Street in Seattle, United States listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The building, built in 1909–1910 for liquor magnate Samuel Hyde, housed the residence of the Russian consul-general from 1994–April 2018 when the US State Department evicted the consul-general following the White House ordered closure of Russia's Seattle consulate office.The two-story brick house is fronted by a portico with Corinthian columns; there is a brick carriage house in back. It is believed that the grounds were laid out by the Olmsted Brothers. The Olmsteds played a prominent role in designing Seattle's system of parks and boulevards, and were responsible for landscaping the grounds of the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition on the campus of the University of Washington.

Villa Academy is a Catholic independent PreK-8th grade school located in the Laurelhurst neighborhood of Seattle, Washington on a tract of land near Lake Washington. The school has a preschool, Lower School and Middle School and was founded by America's first Catholic saint, Mother Cabrini who was canonized as St. Frances Xavier Cabrini in 1946. The campus includes orchards, gardens, three age appropriate playgrounds, and an athletic field. The building also has a dedicated art studio and music space, science laboratories, a performance theater, a full-size gymnasium, Lower School Computer lab, and historic chapel. In 2007-2008, Villa enrolled approximately 400 students, approximately half of whom are Catholic.

Laurelhurst is a residential neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is bounded on the northeast by Ivanhoe Place N.E., beyond which is Windermere; on the northwest by Sand Point Way N.E. and N.E. 45th Street, beyond which are Hawthorne Hills, Ravenna, and University Village; on the west by Mary Gates Memorial Drive N.E., beyond which is the East Campus of the University of Washington; on the southwest by Union Bay; and on the east by Lake Washington. Seattle Children's Hospital is located in its northwest corner. Once a seasonal campground of the Duwamish people, the neighborhood has been a part of Seattle since its annexation in 1910.The community center is an official city landmark. The Laurelhurst Beach Club, Laurelhurst Park, and its Laurelhurst Community Center serve as gathering places. Laurelhurst has had several famous residents, including Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas, who rented a house on the waterfront one summer while filming a movie; musician Duff McKagan, bassist for Guns N' Roses. Bill Gates lived as a young child in Wallingford before moving to the neighborhood, where his father Bill Gates Sr. lived.The neighborhood is one of the most expensive in Seattle, with median home prices around $1,649,000, over double the overall Seattle median of $735,000, as of September 2018.

The James G. Eddy House and Grounds is a historic property in Medina, Washington. The two-story mansion was built in 1925 for James Garfield Eddy. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 19, 1982. THE COLONIAL Revival home hugging the bluff is half hidden from Lake Washington by a landscape that has been developing for nearly 90 years. When James Garfield Eddy and his family moved into their Medina house in 1918, the Great War had just ended and Seattle, along with the rest of the country, was trying to get back to normal. Twenty-two years before the first bridge crossed Lake Washington, Eddy commuted to Seattle by boat from his Lake Washington dock to the foot of Madison Street and then by streetcar into town. But it was worth the commute. His five-acre estate, formerly apple orchards, was shaped into gardens framed by evergreens. It was an appropriate setting for a man whose family had gained from the sale of timber and sought to preserve that richness for future generations through tree breeding. As was the case with several of Seattle's pioneering lumbermen, the Eddy family had left Maine for Michigan for the Pacific Northwest as the great East Coast and Midwest forests were depleted to build American towns and cities. In 1903, James and his brother John partnered with David Skinner to purchase the Port Blakely Mill Co. on Bainbridge Island. James realized that in order to benefit from trees, you needed to replenish them. He became one of the first tree breeders in the country. In 1918, he consulted with Luther Burbank about producing better forest trees through breeding experiments and joined him at his California nursery to explore the potential. These early experiments led to the establishment, in 1925, of a research station in Placerville, Calif., that, by 1931, had become the most complete arboretum of pines in the world. Eddy funded the station until it was turned over to the U.S. Forest Service in 1935. Eddy's home recalled the New England traditional architecture that was part of his family's geographic roots. Built by Howard S. Wright Sr., the 10-bedroom house wraps around the driveway in an unpretentious manner that downplays its size. The modest entrance is framed with nonsymmetrical wings that bend slightly (coincidentally creating some quirky angular bathrooms and storage areas inside). Its interiors, while spacious and well-proportioned, are also understated, with low ceilings throughout. There is no fancy woodwork or decorative molding, only first-growth fir paneling in the stair hall and quarter-sawn oak floors. This and the 8-foot ceiling heights reinforce the early New England Colonial ambiance. Yet the house is designed for entertaining and also for maximum light and ventilation. Its principal rooms are oriented toward Lake Washington and are spacious, despite those low ceilings. French doors open on hinges to connect living and dining room to outdoor living areas. Two large skylit bays, one in the informal kitchen/dining area, one in the den/family room on the other side of the house, turn these rooms into solaria. Previous owners opened up the original kitchen with rough-cut timber and beams but complementary fir cabinetry. Otto Holmdahl laid out the grounds and pathways. At the time, he was one of only a few landscape designers practicing in the Puget Sound area. His interest in native plant materials and regional landscape made the landscape designer and his client the perfect match. He also took pleasure in forming concrete aggregate into steps and walkways — a style he repeated in his work at Woodland Park and the Loveless Studio Building courtyard later in his career.

Windermere is a residential neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, named after Windermere in England's Lake District. It is bounded on the north by Magnuson Park, part of Sand Point; on the northwest by Sand Point Way N.E., beyond which is Hawthorne Hills; on the southwest by Ivanhoe Place N.E., beyond which is Laurelhurst; and on the southeast by Lake Washington. The area has been a part of Seattle since 1910. The neighborhood is home to the National Archives at Seattle, which is located on Sand Point Way (State Route 513).