Our Church
Volunteer Park is in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, just east of downtown Seattle. Our mission is to provide a relevant and fulfilling experience that enriches and nurtures each others lives, through relationships with God, family, and friends. We hold worship each Saturday at 11:30a and would love to have you join us! Bible study starts at 10am if you would like to look deep into God’s Word.
Our Neighborhood
The Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle is part of a long ridge that overlooks the downtown. In 1872, the pioneers cleared a wagon road through the forest to a cemetery at its peak (later named Lake View Cemetery). It was logged off in the 1880s. James Moore (1861-1929), Capitol Hill’s chief developer, gave the hill its name in 1901. Before that it was called Broadway Hill. Capitol Hill is a vibrant community, with a thriving business district along Broadway Avenue and along 15th and 19th avenues.
We will climb the tower in 1912 when there was no leaf canopy and it was still possible to see the hill …
In 1912, Volunteer Park was 25 years old, but most of the development that could be seen from the tower was much younger than that. Looking west, we see the Volunteer Park High Reservoir (fenced and filled with Cedar River water in 1901). Looking northwest, we see the palatial English Arts and Crafts mansion of John and Eliza Leary on 10th Avenue E (eight years old in 1912). Directly north, the wagon road that was once the favorite route for funeral processions to reach Lakeview Cemetery directly through the park has been widened and paved (14th Avenue N) to the Olmsted’s instructions.
This year — 1912 — the park has been blocked at its north end with the construction of the glass Conservatory that the park department purchased from a catalog and assembled on the site. To the northeast is a latticed pergola.
Looking east and south from the tower, the viewer sees the rooftops of hundreds of nearly mansion-sized homes crowd the curiously small lots of the several Capitol Hill additions — including “Millionaires’ Row” on 14th Avenue N — promoted by James Moore. That very few of these residences are more than 10 years old (in 1912) is testimony to the initiative of Moore, Seattle’s super-developer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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http://www.vintageseattle.org
