Madison Park Blogger

Hollywood Bandit 's 1990s spree ends in suicide Last month's unlikely robbery of the Madison Park Wells Fargo Bank branch   w...

Turn-of-the-century "Amusement Center" here That great website, Vintage Seattle ,  has unearthed the historic photograph abo...

There's a lot of wreckage under the waters of Lake Washington, almost all which arrived there accidentally. Though at least one vessel ...

Anyone reading this blog over the last couple years knows what fans we are of our neighborhood fire team. The Seattle Fire Department'...

As we’ve previously chronicled, Madison Park began life in the mid-1800s as a private waterfront estate, Laurel Shade, which later grew int...

New wading pool for the neighborhood? Several MPB readers have sent us photos that we thought should be shared.  The one above was taken...

In Madison Park’s early days this was very much a beach community, with lakeside amenities including a boardwalk, a bandstand, bathing pavil...

On this very day in 1950, the ferry Leschi pulled out from the Madison Park dock at 9:15 in the morning for her final run to Kirkland, wher...

Madison Park’s oldest waterfront structure, Washington Pioneer Hall (1642 43rd Avenue E.), will be celebrating its Centennial tomorrow. Hom...

If you were paying attention earlier this week and cared to do so, you could have celebrated the 259th anniversary of the birth of James Mad...

I don't know about you, but I am fascinated by history and find old photos of Madison Park particularly arresting. This is a 1939 photo ...

You might think it would be a pretty easy thing to describe the community in which you live, defining, for those not in the know, its charac...