WaSMAR2608_06.xml Guide to the Seattle Engineering Department Property Ownership Lists and Abstracts 1891-1904 Seattle Engineering Department Property Ownership Lists and Abstracts Finding aid prepared by Scott Cline Funding for processing this record series was provided through a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Seattle Municipal Archives © 2011
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Finding aid encoded by Julie Kerssen 2011 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Seattle Municipal Archives
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2608-06 Seattle (Wash.). Engineering Dept. Seattle Engineering Department Property Ownership Lists and Abstracts 1891-1904 0.2 cubic foot 1 box Lists of property owners and descriptions of tracts of land in Seattle. Collection materials are in English Historical Note

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

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.

Records are open to the public.

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

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Seattle (Wash.). Engineering Dept. Seattle (Wash.) Real property--Washington (State)--Seattle Land tenure--Washington (State)--Seattle Seattle

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

2608-06 Seattle Engineering Department Property Ownership Lists and Abstracts 1891-1904 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