Roger Lippman
- Feb 20
Life and Times in Leschi: Powell Barnett, Part 2
In his 1968 interview with Larry Gossett (excerpted here last month), Powell Barnett refers to the fact that housing discrimination was...
Junius Rochester
- Jan 22
The Mosquito Fleet
Because I had the luck and privilege of having been raised on the Seattle shores of Lake Washington, I recall the last runs of the...
Leschi Council
- Dec 30, 2021
A History of Leschi School
In 1906, the Seattle School Board purchased a parcel of land where a florist named O'Brien had operated a rose garden and greenhouses....
Leschi Council
- Apr 2, 2021
The Leschi Pavilion
This magnificent building was once located in Leschi Park; it was a dance pavilion/casino and a popular weekend destination for city...
Roger Lippman
- Mar 2, 2021
Life and Times in Leschi
In my years in our neighborhood, I’ve been curious how it came to be named after Leschi, a leader among Indians of the upper Nisqually...
Melissa Hellmann
- Feb 1, 2021
Leschi Loses a Leader
Reprinted with permission of The Seattle Times. (Thanks to Anne Depue for obtaining permission) Born in segregated Arkansas in 1928,...
Carla Saulter
- Dec 1, 2019
Who Was Leschi? Part II
Last month’s article supplied some information about this neighborhood’s namesake, Chief Leschi. Leschi was a leader of the Nisqually...
Carla Saulter
- Nov 1, 2019
Leschi: A Nisqually Leader
How did the Leschi area get its name? The Leschi neighborhood is named for Chief Leschi (1808–1858), a leader of the Nisqually people and...
Henry Matthews
- May 1, 2019
The Liberty Bank Building
Where in Seattle can you find a new apartment building with an exuberant, colorful mural rising through five upper stories above a...
Georgia S. McDade
- Jan 1, 2019
Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument
My relationship with Dr. King was decades old, so I felt compelled to see the sculpture honoring him as soon as I could. Getting to the...
Diane Snell
- Dec 2, 2018
Up in the Air, Junior Birdman
The recent centennial of the end of World War I got me to wondering how the war effort affected our region. It was, of course, the...