Madison Park (Seattle)
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Madison Park in 2004 (with E. Madison Street in the upper-left-hand corner) |
Madison Park is an 8.3 acre (34,000 m²)
park in the
Madison Park neighborhood of
Seattle, Washington, located between the western shore of
Lake Washington on the east, 42nd Avenue E. on the west, E. Madison Street on the north, and E. Blaine Street on the south. 43rd Avenue E. divides it into two sections; the east is a swimming beach and public dock, and the west is a playground, playfield, and tennis courts.
For the first 19 years of its existence, the Madison Street
Cable Railway ran on Madison Street from
Elliott Bay to the park. Service was cut back to 21st Avenue in
1910. In addition, from the early
1880s to
August 31,
1950, there was
ferry service from Madison Park across the lake to
Kirkland. (The construction of the
Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge in
1940 had greatly reduced demand and the continued existence of the run could no longer be justified after
tolls were removed in
1949.)
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Parks Department page on Madison Park
