place

Queen Anne Counterbalance

1891 establishments in Washington (state)1940 disestablishments in Washington (state)Cable car railways in the United StatesHistory of SeattlePages with no gauge entered in Infobox rail line
Streetcars in Washington (state)Tram, urban railway and trolley companiesTransportation in SeattleUse mdy dates from January 2022
Counterbalance
Counterbalance

The Queen Anne Counterbalance was a funicular streetcar line operated by the Seattle Electric Company, serving the steep slope along its namesake street on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, Washington, from 1901 to 1940. It replaced an earlier cable car line built by the Front Street Cable Railway in 1891.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Queen Anne Counterbalance (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Queen Anne Counterbalance
Queen Anne Avenue North, Seattle Queen Anne

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Queen Anne CounterbalanceContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 47.627777777778 ° E -122.35666666667 °
placeShow on map

Address

Leona

Queen Anne Avenue North
98109 Seattle, Queen Anne
Washington, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Counterbalance
Counterbalance
Share experience

Nearby Places

Kerry Park (Seattle)
Kerry Park (Seattle)

Kerry Park is a small public park and viewpoint on the south slope of Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, Washington, United States. It overlooks Downtown Seattle and is located along West Highland Drive between 2nd Avenue West and 3rd Avenue West. The park's view is considered to be the most iconic views of the city skyline, with the Space Needle prominent at the center, Elliott Bay to the west, and Mount Rainier in the background.The park encompasses 1.26 acres (0.51 ha) and includes a railing and several benches facing south towards the skyline. A stairway on the west end of the park connects below to West Prospect Street and the Bayview-Kinnear Park, which has a small playground. Kerry Park is named after the couple lumberman and business magnate Albert S. Kerry and his wife Katharine. They lived nearby, and donated the land to the city in 1927 "so that all who stop here may enjoy [its] view."At the center of Kerry Park is Changing Form, a steel sculpture by artist Doris Totten Chase that stands 15 feet (4.6 m) high and was installed in 1971 with donations from Kerry's children. The sculpture is hollow and is popular as a play area for children and as a framing device for photographers. That view from Kerry Park encompasses downtown Seattle, Elliott Bay, the West Seattle peninsula, Bainbridge Island, and Mount Rainier.The view from the park is often used as the backdrop for television news segments on Seattle, as well as other media depictions of the city. Kerry Park was also featured in the opening credits of the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You, and in Frasier as the view from the titular character's apartment.