Anne Depue
- 4 days ago
Odessa Brown Clinic
Seattle Children’s has announced plans to build a new Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic in the Central District at the southwest corner of...
Roger Lippman
- Aug 26
Life and Times in Leschi: Angel came down from heaven yesterday
Late last November, along with hundreds of others, I attended a celebration at the Museum of History and Industry of the 80th birthday of...
Roger Lippman
- Mar 26
Life and Times in Leschi: Powell Barnett, Part 3
Powell Barnett’s father brought the family in 1889 from Indiana to the coal town of Roslyn, Washington. The elder Barnett had been...
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...
