Haller Lake, Seattle, Washington
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Lake
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and neighborhood in north central Seattle, Washington, named for Theodore N. Haller
Theodore N. Haller
Theodore Newell Haller was a prominent American businessman, attorney, writer, and civic leader in Seattle, Washington. He founded Haller City, Washington, now Arlington, Washington. Haller Lake, a lake and neighborhood in Seattle, is named after him.Theodore Haller was the son of Henrietta and...
, who platted the neighborhood in 1905. His father, Granville O. Haller
Granville O. Haller
Granville Owen Haller was a noted Indian fighter and United States Army military officer, as well as a wealthy postbellum businessman in the Seattle, Washington, area...
, was one of Seattle's early settlers, an army officer who amassed a large estate in the region.
The Duwamish tribe called the lake "Calmed Down a Little" (Lushootseed
Lushootseed
Lushootseed is the language or dialect continuum of several SalishNative American groups of modern-day Washington state...
: seesáhLtub), probably referring to the lakesite as a place of refuge during slave raids. Early settlers called it Welch Lake after it was claimed in the 1880s by a British immigrant named John Welch.
The lake is located between N. 128th Street to the north, N. 122nd Street to the south, Densmore Avenue N. to the west, and Corliss Avenue N. to the east. It covers 15 acres (6.1 ha); its volume is 247 acre.ft and its maximum depth is 36 feet (11 m). Its shoreline is private except for two public access points, the Meridian Avenue N. right-of-way on the north shore and the N. 125th Street right-of-way on the west. Haller Lake, which has a drainage area of about 280 acres, discharges through an outlet control structure on the west side of the lake that drains to Lake Union
Lake Union
Lake Union is a freshwater lake entirely within the Seattle, Washington city limits.-Origins:A glacial lake, its basin was dug 12,000 years ago by the Vashon glacier, which also created Lake Washington and Seattle's Green, Bitter, and Haller Lakes.-Name:...
.
The boundaries of the neighborhood are N. 145th Street to the north, beyond which is the city of Shoreline
Shoreline, Washington
Shoreline is a city in King County, Washington, United States, north of Downtown Seattle bordering the northern Seattle city limits. As of the 2010 census, the population was 53,007, making it the 19th largest city in the state of Washington....
; N. 110th Street to the south, beyond which is Northgate
Northgate, Seattle, Washington
Northgate is an informal district of neighborhoods in north urban Seattle, Washington, named for and surrounding Northgate Mall, the first covered mall in the United States....
; State Route 99
Washington State Route 99
State Route 99, abbreviated SR 99, commonly called Highway 99, is a numbered state highway in the U.S. state of Washington extending just under from Fife in the south to Everett in the north, with a gap in Tukwila.-Southern division:...
(Aurora Avenue) to the west, beyond which is Bitter Lake
Bitter Lake, Seattle, Washington
Bitter Lake is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, USA, named after its most notable feature, Bitter Lake. It was a mostly natural forest of Douglas-fir and Western Redcedar, inhabited by Native Americans, until the late 19th century. Development especially picked up when the Seattle-to-Everett...
; and Interstate 5 to the east, beyond which is Jackson Park
Jackson Park (Seattle)
Jackson Park is a public park and golf course in north Seattle, Washington, occupying most of the space between N.E. 145th Street on the north, N.E. 130th Street on the south, 5th Avenue N.E. on the west, and 15th Avenue N.E. on the east. It opened to the public in 1928. Jackson Park has both a...
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Within the neighborhood are Northacres Park
Northacres Park (Seattle)
Northacres Park is a public park located in the Haller Lake neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, at the corner of Interstate 5 and N.E. 130th Street. It incorporates a picnic area, a baseball diamond, and an off-leash dog run. The park's playground and wading pool are being remodeled.-External...
, a large, forested public park east of the lake on 1st Avenue N.E.; Ingraham High School
Ingraham High School
Ingraham High School is a public high school serving grades 9-12 located in the Haller Lake neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA. Opened in 1959, it is named after Edward Sturgis Ingraham, the first superintendent of the Seattle Public Schools. Since 2002, Ingraham has been an International...
, north of the lake on N. 130th Street; Lakeside School
Lakeside School
Lakeside School is a private/independent school located in the Haller Lake neighborhood at the north city limits of Seattle, Washington, USA, for grades 5–12....
, alma mater of Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...
, Paul Allen
Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates...
, and Adam West
Adam West
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, in the northeast corner of the neighborhood; and Northwest Hospital and Medical Center, which occupies a 33 acres (13.4 ha) campus southwest of the lake on N. 115th Street.
The Haller Lake Community Club, just northwest of the lake at 12579 Densmore Avenue N., was formed in 1922 as the Haller Lake Improvement Club. It features a Wurlitzer
Wurlitzer
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to simply as Wurlitzer, was an American company that produced stringed instruments, woodwinds, brass instruments, theatre organs, band organs, orchestrions, electronic organs, electric pianos and jukeboxes....
theatre pipe organ
Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...
installed in 1969.
In September 2005, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved projects to be funded through the second cycle of the Pro Parks Levy Opportunity Fund, including $150,000 for the Haller Lake Community Street End project. This project started in 2006 and was completed in 2007.http://www.seattle.gov/parks/proparks/projects/HallerLake.htm