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Maple Leaf, Seattle
Maple Leaf is a mostly residential neighborhood located in northeast Seattle.
The area that is now the Maple Leaf neighborhood appeared on maps in 1894 as a plat by real estate promoters and was called the Maple Leaf Addition to the Green Lake Tract. The name may have come from the Maple Saw Mill that operated to the east on Lake Washington or from some maple trees that once grew in the area. There is also an apocryphal story that Maple Leaf was so far north of downtown Seattle that it got its name for being near Canada.
The neighborhood established itself through the early 1900s, gaining a school district in 1907 and the Maple Leaf Reservoir in 1912. The neighborhood's earliest residents were Japanese American farmers. These included immigrants like Denjiro and Jin Nishitani, who established a nursery and garden and raised their family in the neighborhood. The U.S. interned the Nishitani family during World War II, but the property remained in the family until they sold it for redevelopment in 1973.
During the early 1900s, Maple Leaf and many other Seattle neighborhoods began to use racial restrictive covenants to block people of color from buying property or living there unless they were "servants domesticated with an owner or tenant". Many developers began instating these covenants after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the use of city ordinances in enforcing residential segregation in 1917. Two documented covenants in Maple Leaf covered at least 50 properties.
In 1924, William Earl Waldo created the Waldo Sanitarium next to the Maple Leaf Reservoir. It was founded as a place for osteopathic medicine, which had been legalized in Washington in 1909, but still not permitted in any Seattle hospitals. The sanitarium expanded throughout the 1900s, creating intern training programs and becoming a nonprofit as the Waldo General Hospital. The organization moved closer to Northgate in the 1960s, and closed in 1985.
During the 1940s, a 100-foot tall water tower was constructed in the neighborhood. It wasn't until after World War II that the entirety of Maple Leaf neighborhood was within the Seattle city limits. Prior to 1954 the city line was located at 85th Street, but after a series of annexations took place the city limits moved to its current location of 145th Street.
Maple Leaf was affected by nearby redevelopment through the next decades, with Northgate Mall's construction in 1950 and I-5 being built into the hill's edge in the 1960s. Puni Hokea and Peter Orser created the Maple Leaf Community Council in 1983, successfully campaigning against upzoning along Roosevelt Way NE.
In 1986 Maple Leaf was given the title of national "Neighborhood of the Year" by Neighborhoods USA. Seattle Mayor Charles Royer nominated Maple Leaf for the award.
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Maple Leaf, Seattle
Maple Leaf is a mostly residential neighborhood located in northeast Seattle.
The area that is now the Maple Leaf neighborhood appeared on maps in 1894 as a plat by real estate promoters and was called the Maple Leaf Addition to the Green Lake Tract. The name may have come from the Maple Saw Mill that operated to the east on Lake Washington or from some maple trees that once grew in the area. There is also an apocryphal story that Maple Leaf was so far north of downtown Seattle that it got its name for being near Canada.
The neighborhood established itself through the early 1900s, gaining a school district in 1907 and the Maple Leaf Reservoir in 1912. The neighborhood's earliest residents were Japanese American farmers. These included immigrants like Denjiro and Jin Nishitani, who established a nursery and garden and raised their family in the neighborhood. The U.S. interned the Nishitani family during World War II, but the property remained in the family until they sold it for redevelopment in 1973.
During the early 1900s, Maple Leaf and many other Seattle neighborhoods began to use racial restrictive covenants to block people of color from buying property or living there unless they were "servants domesticated with an owner or tenant". Many developers began instating these covenants after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the use of city ordinances in enforcing residential segregation in 1917. Two documented covenants in Maple Leaf covered at least 50 properties.
In 1924, William Earl Waldo created the Waldo Sanitarium next to the Maple Leaf Reservoir. It was founded as a place for osteopathic medicine, which had been legalized in Washington in 1909, but still not permitted in any Seattle hospitals. The sanitarium expanded throughout the 1900s, creating intern training programs and becoming a nonprofit as the Waldo General Hospital. The organization moved closer to Northgate in the 1960s, and closed in 1985.
During the 1940s, a 100-foot tall water tower was constructed in the neighborhood. It wasn't until after World War II that the entirety of Maple Leaf neighborhood was within the Seattle city limits. Prior to 1954 the city line was located at 85th Street, but after a series of annexations took place the city limits moved to its current location of 145th Street.
Maple Leaf was affected by nearby redevelopment through the next decades, with Northgate Mall's construction in 1950 and I-5 being built into the hill's edge in the 1960s. Puni Hokea and Peter Orser created the Maple Leaf Community Council in 1983, successfully campaigning against upzoning along Roosevelt Way NE.
In 1986 Maple Leaf was given the title of national "Neighborhood of the Year" by Neighborhoods USA. Seattle Mayor Charles Royer nominated Maple Leaf for the award.
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