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Northgate is an informal district of Neighborhood s in north urban Seattle, Washington , named for and surrounding Northgate Mall , the first covered mall in the United States .1 Wilma referenced Walt Crowley with Paul Dorpat (Photography Editor), ''National Trust Guide: Seattle'' (New York: John Wiley & Son, Inc., 1998), 209; HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, "Northgate Beginnings" (by Jim Douglas), http://www.historylink.org/ (accessed August 2001); L. B. Fussell, "Section To Be Known As 'Northgate'", ''The Seattle Times'', February 22, 1948; "Features Of Northgate Shopping Area Outlined", Ibid., February 1, 1950; "Polar Bear Cubs And $35,000 Car Vie At Northgate", Ibid., May 23, 1950; "Plenty of Parking Space At Northgate", Ibid., May 7, 1950; "Carter To Carve Totem Pole For Northgate", Ibid., February 26, 1952; "Northgate Stores Fete Completion Of 5-Acre Area", Ibid., February 15, 1952; "Car Show Planned On Northgate Mall", Ibid., April 30, 1953; "25 New Stores Opening At Northgate", Ibid., August 17, 1965; "Did You Know?" Ibid., March 18, 1965; "Northgate's Vast Parking Areas Can Accommodate Up To 50,000 Cars A Day", Ibid., March 21, 1968; "Eighteen Stores Pioneered Merchandising History At Northgate", Ibid., April 9, 1975; "Northgate An Instant Success", Ibid., April 9, 1975; "Northgate Center Will Celebrate 30th Anniversary Next Month", Ibid., March 13, 1980; "Simoninfo", Simon Properties Website (www.simon.com); Steve Schoenherr (University of San Diego), "Evolution of the Shopping Center", Steve Schoenherr Home Page accessed on November 4, 2004 (http://home.sandiego.edu/~ses/). Its east-west principal arterials are NE Northgate Way and 130th Street, and its north-south principal arterials are Roosevelt Way NE and Aurora Avenue N ( SR 99 ). Minor arterials are College Way-Meridian Avenue N, 1st, 5th, and 15th avenues NE. Northgate neighborhoods are (north to south): As well as the informal district of neighborhoods, Northgate is also Northgate Mall , the Shopping Center within the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Northgate.4 Wilma referenced Mimi Sheridan and Carol Tobin, ''Licton Springs History'', (Seattle: Licton Springs Community Council, 2001), 8; Don Sherwood, "Sacajawea P.F.", in "Interpretive Essays of the Histories of Seattle's Parks and Playfields", handwritten bound manuscript dated 1977, Seattle Room, Seattle Public Library. As headwaters of the south fork of the Thornton Creek watershed, Sunny Walter-Pillings Pond and NSCC wetland in Licton Springs–North College Park are headwaters of Thornton Creek under the Northgate Mall development. These neighborhoods are natural extensions of Maple Leaf downstream.(1) Walter & local Audubon chapters (2) Bowditch, Wang, & Wilson (3) Brokaw Neighborhood activists and NSCC have been promoting habitat restoration in support.(1) Brokaw (2) Bowditch, Wang, & Wilson (3) Hodson (4) Thornton Creek Alliance staff The Sheihk Idriss Mosque in Pinehurst has architecture unique in Seattle. An octagonal dome and a symbolic Minaret , both sheathed in copper and capped with Crescent Moon s, red brick walls banded with buff brick and tall glass-block windows topped with concrete Lintel s in the shape of Moorish arches distinguish the first Mosque in Seattle (1981) and the first mosque west of the Mississippi River to be built in a Middle Eastern design.7 Long referenced David Buerge and Junius Rochester, ''Roots and Branches'' (Seattle: Church Council of Greater Seattle, 1988), 221; David Schraer, "Northgate's Mosque: A Monument on the Strip", ''Arcade (Seattle)'', Vol. 2, No. 2 (June-July 1981), p. 2; John Wolcott, "Muslims in the Northwest", ''The Progress'', Vol. 89, No. 3 (January 16, 1986). The Northgate Mall, opened in 1950, is the first regional shopping center called a mall, though there are 3 other shopping centers in the United States which predate it. At the time of its opening, it was located outside of the Seattle city limits, though this is no longer the case. Surrounding the Northgate Mall is another mall as well as many strip malls, a line of stores with a parking lot, often in front. While there is much commerce in the area, hotel development has been limited with only the Hotel Nexus, previously a Ramada Inn , being the only upscale hotel in the area. The many motels on Aurora Avenue is further northwest than the Northgate neighborhood. What is now Northgate has been inhabited since the end of the last s) were maintained in what are now these neighborhoods by selective burning every few years. Today the Native American descendents are represented by the Duwamish Tribe. NOTES AND REFERENCES Further reading and references |
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