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Beacon Hill is a and the Seattle Division of the Department Of Veterans Affairs ' Puget Sound Health Care System, the hill offers views of Downtown , the Industrial District , Elliott Bay , First Hill , Rainier Valley , and, when the weather is good, Mount Rainier . It is bounded on the west by Interstate 5 , on the north by Interstate 90 , on the east by Rainier Avenue S., Cheasty Boulevard S., and Martin Luther King Jr. Way S., and on the south by the city limits. Homes in the northern part of the hill were mostly built in the early 1900s, and so North Beacon Hill contains many excellent examples of Craftsman Bungalow s and "Seattle box houses" (a local variant of the Foursquare style). HISTORY The hill was originally named Holgate and Hanford Hill after two early settlers, John Holgate and Edward Hanford, who settled in the area in the 1850s {Link without Title} and are commemorated to this day by South Holgate and Hanford Streets on North Beacon Hill. A later arrival, M. Harwood Young, named the hill after the Beacon Hill in his hometown, Boston, Massachusetts . DEMOGRAPHICS Beacon Hill has, throughout its history, been home to successive waves of Immigrants . In the mid to late 20th century, the district became predominately Asian, and this can still be seen today in the many Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Filipino shops, restaurants, and other businesses that line Beacon Avenue South. According to the United States 2000 Census , the population of Beacon Hill is 22,300, and remains racially diverse: 51% Asian, 20% white, 13% black, 9% Hispanic/Latino and 7% other {Link without Title} . LANDMARKS AND INSTITUTIONS
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