Belltown Cottage Park Grand Opening!!!

TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!

Grand Opening of Belltown's New Cottage Park, and the

8th Anniversary of the wonderful Belltown P-Patch!!!

Saturday 21st June 2003

Beginning with Black Cat Orchestra at 3pm, playing from Belltown's new outdoor theatre at the Cottages.

Speechifing at 4, more music and literary entertainment to follow.

Food from Marcina Bakery, Cyclops Cafe, Starbucks, Casuelita's Caribbean Cafe, Shallots Asian Bistro

 

See the two beautifully renovated 1916 Cottages ready for the Richard Hugo House Literary Center's Writer-in-Residency program, and our future Belltown mini-Community Center showing a Belltown History: Belltown Before the Condos, 1852-2002

 

WOW!

2516 Elliott Avenue

For information contact: Myke Woodwell, 509-304-9848 or Glenn MacGilvra, 206-726-8554

Opened June 21st, 2003

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Welcome to the Belltown Cottages

The Belltown Cottages are 3 of 6 'Modern Cottages' designed and built on this site in 1916 by William Hainesworth. There have been a lot of changes since.

Three cottages are what remains of 11 homes built on this quarter block shortly after the end of the 19th century. The drop from the Cottages down to Elliott Avenue was originally the high tide bluff that ran south to Pioneer Square. The Cottages are located in William Bell and Arthur Denny's First Addition to the City of Seattle of 1858, and predate the final regrading of Denny Hill and the building of the Viaduct. The people who called these houses home were workers at the wood mills, shipyards, fish processing plants and the American Can Company located nearby on the waterfront.

Neighborhood volunteers have worked with the City of Seattle and King County to purchase this property and preserve what are now the last 3 single family homes of the hundreds that once populated the area. The property will now provide needed open space for the residents of the growing Belltown neighborhood while preserving a slice of Seattle history.

Belltown Cottage Park, and the adjacent Belltown P-Patch, where purchased by the City of Seattle, and will be preserved into perpetuity for the enjoyment of future generations. Two of the Cottages will be used by the Richard Hugo House Literary Center to provide space for a Writers-in-Residency program and eyes on the Park. Occupancy is scheduled for July 1st, 2003. The third Cottage, upon completion of its interior, will provide a needed mini-Community center space for the Belltown neighborhood. The neighborhood is encouraged to make use of the Cottages and the new common plaza behind them, building on the success of the Belltown P-Patch as an active and vibrant community amenity.

The Grand Opening of Belltown's Cottage Park is a community event for the entire city and region to celebrate the culmination of 12 years effort between community groups, the city and local businesses. The public is invited to visit and take a look at the small piece of well-tended land, which might help inspire other urban public-private partnership uses of green space and hope for humankind in general. Bring the kids and your folks.

Sponsored by Friends of Belltown P-Patch

Friends of Belltown P-Patch
a neighborhood 501(c)3 non-profit organization
2216 Elliott Avenue Seattle, WA 98121
(509) 304.9848

This page created on a little black Macintosh with assistance by Newton.
Images by Myke JWoodwell ©2003

Myke Woodwell / mykejw at speakeasy org