Seattle Engineering Department Property Ownership Lists and Abstracts

Seattle Engineering Department Property Ownership Lists and Abstracts, 1891-1904

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Seattle (Wash.). Engineering Dept.
Title: Seattle Engineering Department Property Ownership Lists and Abstracts
Dates: 1891-1904 (inclusive)
18911904
Quantity: 0.2 cubic foot, (1 box)
Collection Number: 2608-06
Summary: Lists of property owners and descriptions of tracts of land in Seattle.
Repository: Seattle Municipal Archives
Seattle Municipal Archives
Office of the City Clerk
City of Seattle
PO Box 94728
98124-4728
Seattle, WA
Telephone: 2062337807
Fax: 2063869025
archives@seattle.gov
Access Restrictions: Records are open to the public.
Languages: English
Sponsor: Funding for processing this record series was provided through a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The Engineering Department maintained the City's streets and bridges, designed and oversaw construction of public works projects, provided traffic and transportation planning, and operated the sewer and solid waste utility. The position of City Surveyor was created in 1873 to survey the City, establish boundaries and street grades, and administer condemnation processes. This position was renamed City Engineer in 1890. In 1931 the Engineering Department absorbed part of the Department of Public Utilities and in 1936 it assumed the responsibilities of the Department of Streets and Sewers and the Traffic Department. In 1997, the water, solid waste, drainage, and wastewater utilities from the Engineering and Water departments were merged with the Engineering Services Division of SED and the Customer Service Call Center and Construction Engineering Sections of City Light to form Seattle Public Utilities. The traffic and transportation functions of the Engineering Department were consolidated in the Seattle Transportation Department

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This series contains lists of property owners and descriptions of tracts of land supplied to the City Engineer by local title companies. The information apparently was requisitioned in connection with assessment for local improvements and other miscellaneous public works. The ownership lists are simple tables that include name of the owner, addition or plat, block, and lot. Descriptions of tracts are narrative descriptions of the legal boundaries of the property in question.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

[Item and date], Engineering Department Property Ownership Lists and Abstracts, Record Series 2608-06. Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

2608-06: Seattle Engineering Department Property Ownership Lists and Abstracts, 1891-1904Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/1	Eastlake Avenue	1891
1/1	Lawton Tract	1891
1/2	C.W. Lawton Tract	1892
1/3	Post Street Extension	1893
1/3	Block 38, Sarah Bell’s Heirs Second Addition	1893
1/3	Edes and Knight’s Addition	1893
1/3	Block 27 Nagle’s Addition	1893
1/3	Lampe’s Tract	1893
1/4	Bush Street Sewer	1894
1/4	Edes and Knight’s Addition	1894
1/4	Stacy Street	1894
1/4	Adelle Addition	1894
1/4	Pike Street between Front and Seventh in A.A. Denny’s Addition	1894
1/4	Boren and Denny’s East Half of Block Two	1894
1/4	Edes and Knights Addition	1894
1/4	Rainier Street Watermain, Baxter’s Addition	1894
1/4	Lewis Street Improvements	1894
1/4	Boren’s Addition, Block 32, Lots 1, 4, 5, 8	1894
1/4	Sears and Williams Streets	1894
1/4	Bush Street Improvement	1894
1/4	Monroe Street Improvement, Crawford’s Addition	1894
1/4	Marietta Street	1894
1/4	Lake Avenue	1894
1/4	Walla Walla Sewer	1894
1/4	Albert and Waterton Streets	1894
1/4	East Street	1894
1/4	Willow Street	1894
1/5	Sherbrook Street and Chestnut Avenue	1895
1/5	Lake Avenue Assessed Valuations	1895
1/5	Marietta Street	1895
1/5	East Park Addition	1895
1/5	Rosa Convery Estate	1895
1/5	Lands of the Puget Mill Company	1895
1/5	Arthur Street	1895
1/5	Renton’s Addition	1895
1/6	Ninth Avenue South Sewer	1896
1/6	Kinnear’s Addition, Block 4, Lot 5	1896
1/6	Ward Street	1896
1/6	Twenty-second Avenue	1896
1/7	Terry Avenue and Virginia Street Improvement	1897
1/8	Williams Addition, Blocks 1-3	1898
1/8	North Seattle Replat	1898
1/8	Eleventh Avenue South Improvement	1898
1/8	Republican Street	1898
1/8	Alley, Block 2, Boren and Denny’s Plat Improvement	1898
1/8	Jefferson Street	1898
1/9	Rowe and Sohn’s Tracts	1899
1/10	W.R. Brawley’s Addition, Block 6, Lots 1-3	1900
1/10	Sixth Avenue North Improvement	1900
1/11	Multiple Additions—Abstract 3312-75	1901
1/11	Seventeenth Avenue	1901
1/11	Section 9, Township 24 North, Range 4 East	1902
1/11	Mt. Baker Addition	1901
1/11	East side of Twentieth Avenue	1901
1/12	Galer Tract (1882 transcribed in 1904)	1904

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Land tenure--Washington (State)--Seattle
Real property--Washington (State)--Seattle

Corporate Names

Seattle (Wash.). Engineering Dept.

Geographical Names

Seattle (Wash.)

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