Wedgwood | |
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 The Picardo Farm P-Patch community garden in Wedgwood | |
 Map of Wedgwood's location in Seattle | |
| Coordinates: 47°41′26″N 122°17′12″W / 47.69056°N 122.28667°W | |
| Country |  USA |
Wedgwood is a middle-class residential neighborhood of northeast Seattle, Washington with a modest commercial strip. Wedgwood is located about two miles (3.2 km) north, and slightly east, of the University of Washington; it is about six miles (9.7 km) northeast of Downtown. The neighborhood is further typical of Seattle neighborhoods in having more than one name and having different, overlapping, but well-documented definitions of the neighborhood.
The misspelling Wedgewood is not uncommon—it is used by at least five businesses and even appears in the unofficial City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas[1][2]—but the origin and spelling of the name are clear: the neighborhood was named after the English bone china-maker Wedgwood, the favorite of the wife of Albert ("Al") Balch (1903–1976), the developer who named the neighborhood. Balch was also the founder of adjoining View Ridge.[1]
- ^ a b Wilma, David (July 24, 2001). "Seattle Neighborhoods: Wedgwood – Thumbnail History". Historylink.org Essay 3462. Retrieved April 21, 2006.
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"Wedgwood". Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas. Office of the Seattle City Clerk. June 17, 2002. Retrieved April 21, 2006.
Maps "NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpg June 17, 2002.
(2) "About the Seattle City Clerk's On-line Information Services". Information Services. Seattle City Clerk's Office. April 30, 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2006.
See heading, "Note about limitations of these data".
Accessed December 2004, re-accessed July 15, 2006, so the site has been this way at least 18 months.
(3) Shenk, Pollack, Dornfield, Frantilla, & Neman
"Sources for this atlas and the neighborhood names used in it include a 1980 neighborhood map produced by the Department of Community Development (relocated to the Department of Neighborhoods [1] and other agencies), Seattle Public Library indexes, a 1984–1986 Neighborhood Profiles feature series in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, numerous parks, land use and transportation planning studies, and records in the Seattle Municipal Archives [2]." [3]
See also the "Neighbors" project of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and "Webtowns" of the on-line P-I.
See also Seattle neighborhoods #Informal districts.