Roanoke Park is a
park
A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are urban green space, green spaces set aside for recreation inside t ...
between the north
Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill is a neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in both the Northeast, Washington, D.C., Northeast and Southeast, Washington, D.C., Southeast quadrants. It is bounded by 14th Street SE & NE, F S ...
and
Portage Bay neighborhoods in
Seattle
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, Washington. It occupies the block bounded by E. Edgar and Roanoke Streets on the north and south and 10th Avenue E. and Broadway E. on the east and west, just northeast of the junction of
State Route 520 and
Interstate 5
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.
The park was named by
David T. Denny and
Henry Fuhrman after
Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke ( ) is an Independent city (United States), independent city in Virginia, United States. It lies in Southwest Virginia, along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains. Roanok ...
. It was bought by the city of Seattle in 1908.
References
External links
Parks Department page on Roanoke ParkNational Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Roanoke Park Historic District
Online on the site of the Washington State Department of Transportation.
1899 establishments in Washington (state)
Parks in Seattle
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Seattle
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