Freeway Park

Seattle, WA

Opened: 1976

Architects: Angela Danadjieva, Lawrence Halprin and Associates

47.609470, -122.331273

This brutalist park covers 5.5 acres over Interstate 5 and was built to restore the pedestrian connection between the Downtown, Capitol Hill and First Hill neighborhoods that was severed by the construction of the interstate in the 1960s. The park is adjacent to the Washington State Civic Center, which opened in 1988 and also straddles the interstate.

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Freeway Park
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James Reed Ellis plaque: Seek ye a monument to him? Look about you. (Wren's epitath)
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Freeway Park
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I-5 Entering the tunnel under Freeway Park
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Freeway Park
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Flowering trees

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