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Condemnation

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

Board of Eminent Domain Commissioners Abstracts of Title

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9326-03
Scope and Contents note

Property title abstracts for parcels condemned by City for municipal use. Includes ownership histories. Arranged numerically. Numbers assigned to abstracts do not correspond to case file numbers.

Dates: 1907-1950

Board of Public Works Miscellaneous Subject Files

 Series
Identifier: 0601-01
Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, reports, applications, permits, petitions, and contracts relating to construction, condemnations, street use, franchises, and rights of way. This series is an artificial collection arranged alphabetically by subject.

Dates: 1896-1977

Board of Eminent Domain Commissioners Condemnation Case Files

 Series
Identifier: 9326-02
Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, statements of cost, petitions, ordinances, maps, and judgements on verdicts relating to property condemned by the City for municipal use. Also includes list of assessment rolls filed 1908-1927. Files are arranged numerically from 1-377 and chronologically thereafter.

Dates: 1907-1950

Board of Eminent Domain Commissioners Correspondence

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 9326-01
Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, certificates, deeds, petitions, and newspaper clippings relating to the Board of Eminent Domain Commissioners work in condemnation cases. Arranged alphabetically with case correspondence at the front.

Dates: 1895-1920

Northlake Urban Renewal Scrapbook

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 1625-03
Scope and Contents note This scrapbook consists of news clippings about the University Addition-Northlake Urban Renewal project. Topics include: city proposals for development, the relocation of residents, University of Washington plans for the area, and two civil suits filed against the City by property owners, one of which reached the State Supreme Court. There are also a several articles about the Open Door Clinic. The clippings are primarily from the University District Herald and the University of Washington...
Dates: 1962-1967

Ordinance 27, 1904-04-04

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9123_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance providing for the laying off and establishing of an Avenue in the City of Georgetown, to be known as McLean Avenue; the same to be thirty feet wide, and to run through tracts numbered forty-four and forty-five of the Bond Estate and a portion of the Jennie Gordon and S. McLean Tracts, in Section 21 Township 24, North Range 4 East, W. M.

Dates: 1904-04-04

Ordinance 83, 1905-01-16

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9123_02_1
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off and establishing of an extension to an avenue in the City of Georgetown, to be known and designated as an extension to McLean Avenue; the same to be thirty feet wide, and to run across the tracks and right of way of the Columbia & Puget Sound Railway Company and the Northern Pacific Railway Company, in Section 21, Township 24, North Range 4 East, W. M., and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor, and...
Dates: 1905-01-16

Ordinance 121, 1905-08-07

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9123_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance providing for the condemnation of a lot in the City of Georgetown for city hall purposes, the same being numbered 9 in Block 2 plat of Georgetown, and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor, and for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the private property to be taken and damaged for said purpose.

Dates: 1905-08-07

Ordinance 137, 1905-09-18

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9123_02_1
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extending and establishing of Stehman Street, in the City of Georgetown, as a public street and highway; the same to be forty feet (40) wide, between the intersection of Estelle Street and Mabel Streets, and proving for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor, and for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the private property to be taken and damaged for said purpose and for the assessment...
Dates: 1905-09-18

Ordinance 168, 1905-12-04

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9123_02_1
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extending, widening, and establishing of Commercial Street, in the City of Georgetown as a public street and highway; the same to be 90 feet wide from the intersection of Junction Street with Rupert Street as the same is now laid out and platted and the intersection of proposed Commercial Street with Horton Street, and from said point to Rainier Avenue 85 feet and providing for the taking and damaging of land necessary therefor and for the...
Dates: 1905-12-04

Ordinance 190, 1906-01-29

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9123_02_1
Abstract An Ordinance repealing Ordinance No. 168 of the City of Georgetown, entitled "An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extending, widening and establishing of Commercial Street, in the City of Georgetown, as public street and highway; the same to be 90 feet wide from the intersection of Junction Street with Rupert Street, as the same is now laid out and platted and the intersection of proposed Commercial Street with Horton Street, and from said point, to Rainier Avenue 85 feet and...
Dates: 1906-01-29

Ordinance 193, 1906-02-05

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9123_02_1
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, opening, extending and establishing of Commercial Street, in the City of Georgetown, through, over and across the King County Farm to Charleston Avenue, in the City of Georgetown; and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor and for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the private property to be taken or damaged for said purpose and for an assessment upon the property...
Dates: 1906-02-05

Ordinance 229, 1906-06-11

 Item — Volume 2
Identifier: 9123_02_2
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extending and establishing of Sander Avenue, in the City of Georgetown, over and across Tracts 36, 38 and 39, all in Fred E. Sander's Acre Tracts; also over the rights of way of the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad Company and the Northern Pacific Railway Company; and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor and for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation said purpose, and for an assessment...
Dates: 1906-06-11

Ordinance 303, 1907-07-03

 Item — Volume 2
Identifier: 9123_02_2
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extending and establishing of Commercial Street, in the City of Georgetown, over and across Blocks 17, 18, 19 and 20 of McCallister's Addition to the City of Seattle; also over and across Blocks 36, 37 and 38 of Commercial Street Steam Motor Addition to the City of Seattle; also over and across certain unplatted tracts and parcels of land lying between the Southerly boundary of the Commercial Street Steam Motor Addition to the City of Seattle and...
Dates: 1907-07-03

Ordinance 305, 1899-05-10

 Item — Volume 2
Identifier: 9106_02_305
Abstract

An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extension and establishing of sixty six feet more or less of Fourth Avenue West in the City of Ballard the southern line of Broadway to the Meander Line of Salmon Bay and providing for the condemnation of the real estate necessary therefor.

Dates: 1899-05-10

Ordinance 314, 1907-08-21

 Item — Volume 2
Identifier: 9123_02_2
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extending and establishing of Duwamish Street, in the City of Georgetown, over and across Block 7 of King County Addition to the City of Seattle, and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor and for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the private property to be taken or damaged for said purpose, and for an assessment upon the property benefited and for the purpose of making...
Dates: 1907-08-21

Ordinance 361, 1908-02-17

 Item — Volume 2
Identifier: 9123_02_2
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extending and establishing of Ridgeway Avenue, in the City of Georgetown, over and across certain unplatted tracts of land in the L. M. Collins Donation Claim; also over and across Block 1 of Van Asselt & Gritman's Addition to the City of Georgetown; also over and across tracts 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, all in Barto Acre Tracts; also over and across tracts 16, 17, 49, 52, 53, 54 and 55, all in Corgiat Addition to Georgetown; also over and...
Dates: 1908-02-17

Ordinance 374, 1908-04-20

 Item — Volume 2
Identifier: 9123_02_2
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, widening, extending and establishing of Angelo Street, in the City of Georgetown, over and across Block 1 of Queen Addition to the City of Seattle; and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor, and for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the private property to be taken or damaged for said purpose, and for an assessment upon the property benefited and for the purpose of...
Dates: 1908-04-20

Ordinance 375, 1908-04-20

 Item — Volume 2
Identifier: 9123_02_2
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, widening, extending and establishing of Mabel Street, in the City of Georgetown, over and across Block 1 of Bailey's Addition to the City of Georgetown; also over and across Blocks 1 and 2 of Boitano's Supplemental Addition to the City of Georgetown; also over and across Tracts 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8, of Horton's First Subdivision of Georgetown; also over and across certain unplatted tracts of land in the L. M. Collins Donation Claim, lying between the...
Dates: 1908-04-20

Ordinance 376, 1908-04-20

 Item — Volume 2
Identifier: 9123_02_2
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, widening, extending and establishing of Bateman Street and an alley extending therefrom, in the City of Georgetown, over and across Block 1, of Queen Addition to the City of Seattle; also over and across certain unplatted lands in the L. M. Collins Donation Claim; and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor and for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the private property...
Dates: 1908-04-20

Ordinance 399, 1901-02-19

 Item — Volume 3
Identifier: 9106_02_399
Abstract

An Ordinance providing for the laying off, and establishing of A Fifty foot street more or less between the southerly side of Leary Avenue and the northerly side of Shilshole Avenue, in the City of Ballard, and providing for the condemnation of the real estate necessary therefor.

Dates: 1901-02-19

Ordinance 404, 1908-10-19

 Item — Volume 2
Identifier: 9123_02_2
Abstract

An Ordinance authorizing the City Attorney to dismiss a certain action in the Superior Court for King County for the extension of McLean Avenue, under Ordinance No. 27 of said City.

Dates: 1908-10-19

Ordinance 411, 1908-11-09

 Item — Volume 3
Identifier: 9123_02_3
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the improvement of for the laying off, widening, extending and establishing of East Howard Street in the City of Georgetown, over and across Block Two of Union Depot Addition to South Seattle, and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor and or the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the private property to be taken and damaged for said purposes, and for an assessment upon the property...
Dates: 1908-11-09

Ordinance 412, 1908-11-09

 Item — Volume 3
Identifier: 9123_02_3
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, widening, extending and establishing of Front Street in the City of Georgetown, over an across a certain tract of land between East Howard Street and Trinity Avenue in the City of Georgetown, and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor and for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the private property to be taken or damaged for said purpose, and for an assessment upon the...
Dates: 1908-11-09

Ordinance 418, 1908-11-16

 Item — Volume 3
Identifier: 9123_02_3
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, widening, extending and establishing of Fidalgo Street in the City of Georgetown, over and across Tract "A" of Georgetown River Front Addition to Seattle; also over and across an unplatted tract of land lying between the east line of the Eli B. Maple Donation Claim No. 39 and the westerly line of Charleston Avenue, and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor and for the ascertainment and payment of the...
Dates: 1908-11-16

Ordinance 446, 1909-05-03

 Item — Volume 3
Identifier: 9123_02_3
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the condemnation and appropriation of a certain strip of land 12.7 feet in width lying between the east line of Blocks 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, Sprague's Addition to the City of Seattle on the west line of the replat of Fred E. Sander's Acre Tracts and Wilson and Bryan Tracts, Georgetown, Washington, and extending from the south line of said Block 4 to a point 26.82 feet north of the north line of said Block 9 produced, inclusive of all streets and alleys crossing said...
Dates: 1909-05-03

Ordinance 472, 1909-08-16

 Item — Volume 3
Identifier: 9123_02_3
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, widening and extending of Colorado Avenue in the City of Georgetown over and across Block Eleven (11) Commercial Street Steam Motor Addition, and Block Seven (7) Maple's Addition, all in the City of Georgetown, as provided under Subdivision 1, Section 5, Ordinance No. 408 of the City of Georgetown, providing for the extension of Colorado Avenue in accordance with Subdivision 10 of Section 5 of Ordinance No. 408, passed by the City of Council of the...
Dates: 1909-08-16

Ordinance 473, 1909-08-16

 Item — Volume 3
Identifier: 9123_02_3
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, widening, extending, and establishing of a certain strip of land in the City of Georgetown over and across Lot 2, Block 8, King County Addition, to be used for the westerly approach to the Howard Street viaduct, and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor, and for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the private property to be taken or damaged for said purpose, and...
Dates: 1909-08-16

Ordinance 501, 1909-11-29

 Item — Volume 3
Identifier: 9123_02_3
Abstract

An Ordinance providing for the offsetting of awards against special assessments in condemnation suits, and providing for the cancellation of special assessments in certain cases.

Dates: 1909-11-29

Ordinance 508, 1909-11-29

 Item — Volume 3
Identifier: 9123_02_3
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, widening, extending and establishing of Roosevelt Avenue in the City of Georgetown from the North line of Charles S. Johnson's Addition to the City of Georgetown to the North City limits over and across Tracts 11, 48, and 53 of the unrecorded plat of Beacon Hill Garden Tracts, also over and across Tracts 5, 6, 7, and eight of Bay View Garden Homes, and across certain unplatted tracts in the L.M. Collins Donation Claim, and establishing a grade on...
Dates: 1909-11-29

Ordinance 523, 1910-02-07

 Item — Volume 3
Identifier: 9123_02_3
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, widening, extending and establishing of a projection of the street southeasterly of and adjoining Block One (1) of Sprague's Addition to the City of Seattle, otherwise known as Nora Avenue extended, and establishing a grade on said street, and providing for the taking and damaging of land or other property necessary therefor, and for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the private property to be taken or damaged...
Dates: 1910-02-07

Ordinance 535, 1910-04-04

 Item — Volume 3
Identifier: 9123_02_3
Abstract An Ordinance discontinuing the proceedings for the laying off, extending and establishing of Duwamish Street in the City of Georgetown as provided for and specified in Ordinance No. 314, of said City of Georgetown, and authorizing the dismissal of the Court proceedings pending in the Superior Court of King County, by virtue of said ordinance, and appropriating money to pay all taxable costs incurred by any party to said Court proceedings up to the time of such discontinuance, and authorizing...
Dates: 1910-04-04

Ordinance 598, 1903-03-17

 Item — Volume 4
Identifier: 9106_02_598
Abstract

An Ordinance providing for the extension of the street known as Park Place in the City of Ballard from the southerly line of Ballard Avenue to the northerly line of Shilshole Avenue, and from the northerly line of Leary Avenue to the southerly line of Burke Avenue, and authorizing condemnation proceedings to condemn and appropriate certain real estate therefor.

Dates: 1903-03-17

Ordinance 627, 1903-05-19

 Item — Volume 4
Identifier: 9106_02_627
Abstract

An Ordinance to amend Section one (1) of Ordinance No. 598, entitled "An Ordinance providing for the extension of the street known as Park Place in the City of Ballard from the southerly line of Ballard Avenue to the northerly line of Shilshole Avenue, and from the northerly line of Leary Avenue to the southerly line of Burke Avenue, and authorizing condemnation proceedings to condemn and appropriate certain real estate therefor."

Dates: 1903-05-19

Ordinance 955, 1905-09-26

 Item — Volume 5
Identifier: 9106_02_955
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extending and establishing of Park Place in the City of Ballard over and across certain lands lying between Ballard Avenue and Shilshole Avenue, and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor, and for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the benefit of property to be taken or damaged for said purposes, and for an assessment upon the property benefited and for the purpose of...
Dates: 1905-09-26

Ordinance 1013, 1906-03-13

 Item — Volume 6
Identifier: 9106_02_1013
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extending and establishing of Ninth Avenue in the City of Ballard, over and across an unplatted tract of land lying between the South line of Prospect Beach Addition to the City of Ballard, and the North line of Brygger's Second Home Addition to the City of Ballard; and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor, and for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the private...
Dates: 1906-03-13

Ordinance 1070, 1906-05-29

 Item — Volume 6
Identifier: 9106_02_1070
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, widening, altering, extending, and establishing of Fourth Avenue in the City of Ballard, over and across an unplatted tract of land, being the East One-half 1 1/2) of the South East quarter (1/4) of the Northeast quarter (1/4) of the Southwest quarter (1/4) of Section Two (2), Township Twenty-five (25) North, Range Three (3) East W. M., and over and across Two unplatted tracts of land lying between Ward's Addition to the City of Ballard, and the...
Dates: 1906-05-29

Ordinance 1071, 1906-05-29

 Item — Volume 6
Identifier: 9106_02_1071
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extending and establishing of Baker Street, Chestnut Street and Post Street in the City of Ballard, over and across an unplatted tract of land formerly known as Tract Number 9 of the plat of Farmdale Homestead, but now vacated, being the Southwest quarter (1/4) of Section Eleven (11), Township Twenty-five (25), Range Three (3) East W. M., and over and across Lots One (1), Two (2), Three (3), Four (4), Five (5), Six (6) and Seven (7) of Supplemental...
Dates: 1906-05-29

Ordinance 1078, 1906-06-12

 Item — Volume 6
Identifier: 9106_02_1078
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extending and establishing of East Baker Street, East Chestnut Street, and East Post Street, in the City of Ballard, over and across and Eight (8) Acre tract of land known as the "Bow Tract", bounded on the North and East by blocks one (1) two (2) and eight (8) of the Ballard Addition to the City of Seattle, and on the South and West by block Eighty-eight (88), Eighty-nine (89), Ninety-two (92) and Ninety- three (93) of Gilman Park, and providing...
Dates: 1906-06-12

Ordinance 1096, 1906-07-17

 Item — Volume 6
Identifier: 9106_02_1096
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extending and establishing of Broadway, a street in the City of Ballard, over and across Tract Number Forty-nine (49) of Farmdale Homestead, filed for record July 17, 1882, situated in Section Eleven (11) Township Twenty-five (25) North, Range Three (3) East W. M., said Tract Forty-nine (49) lying between Block Fifty-nine (59) of the plat of Gilman Park, and Block Nine (9) of Ballard Tide Lands; and also laying off, extending and establishing of...
Dates: 1906-07-17

Ordinance 1125, 1906-08-21

 Item — Volume 6
Identifier: 9106_02_1125
Abstract

An Ordinance providing for the laying off extending and establishing of Ione Place in the City of Ballard over and across blocks 75, 81, and 82 of Gilman Park and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor and for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the benefit of the property to be taken for damaged for said purpose and for an assessment upon the property benefited and for the purpose of making such compensation.

Dates: 1906-08-21

Ordinance 1144, 1906-09-11

 Item — Volume 6
Identifier: 9106_02_1144
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the opening, altering, widening, extending and establishing of Leary Avenue, in the City of Ballard, as a public street and highway, beginning at the intersection of Leary Avenue and Broadway, and extending along said Leary Avenue to its intersection with First Avenue; thence over and across certain lots, blocks and tracts of land in Gilman Park and in the Northwest quarter of Section Thirteen (13), Township Twenty-five (25) North, Range Three (3) East, to the...
Dates: 1906-09-11

Ordinance 1217, 1907-02-26

 Item — Volume 7
Identifier: 9106_02_1217
Abstract An Ordinance providing for the laying off, extending and establishing of Fifth Avenue, a street in the City of Ballard, over and across tracts numbered Forty-nine (49) and Fifty (50) of Farmdale Homestead, situated in Section Eleven (11) Township Twenty- five (25) North, Range Three (3) East W. M. and providing for the taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor; for the ascertainment and payment of the just compensation to be made for the private property benefited and...
Dates: 1907-02-26

Ordinance 1252, 1907-04-30

 Item — Volume 7
Identifier: 9106_02_1252
Abstract An Ordinance amending Section One (1) of Ordinance No. 1196 entitled, "An Ordinance providing for the laying off, widening, extending and establishing of Ship Street in the City of Ballard, between the west line of Division Avenue, and the east line of Seaview Avenue, over and around certain lots, and parcels of land in F.D. Dibble's First Addition to Ballard, Washington; McElroy's Addition to Ballard, Washington; Hamblet's Acre Gardens; Replat of Lots Eight (8), Nine (9) and Ten (10) in...
Dates: 1907-04-30

Condemnation Records

 Series — Box 0
Identifier: 2608-02
Scope and Contents note

Project plans, property descriptions, condemnation ordinances, judgements and awards of compensation documenting the condemnation of private property by the City for public works projects. Includes drawings of improvements and some files include photographs. Arranged by condemnation ordinance. Folders link to associated legislation. The number of the Resolution, Clerk/Comptroller, Council Bill or Ordinance number can be entered as a search term, if known.

Dates: 1888-1978

State of Wash v City, 1959-1959

 File — Box 2, Folder: 20
Dates: Other: 1959

Time Oil Company LID Appeal, 1975-1976

 File — Box 29, Folder: 12
Dates: 1975-1976

U.S. v. City, 1977

 File — Box 22, Folder: 14

West Seattle Freeway Records

 Series
Identifier: 2614-02
Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and reports on the West Seattle Freeway. Material covers condemnations, landscaping, construction and roadway maintenance. Arranged alphabetically by type.

Dates: 1971-1976