Meridian, Seattle

Meridian

Meridian or Tangletown is the part of Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood that lies north of N 50th Street, near Green Lake. Some^[who?] consider it to lie outside of Wallingford proper. The neighborhood was given the name "Tangletown" years ago, when a streetcar interchange occupied the space where businesses and condominiums now stand. An alternative explanation is that the name comes from the disturbance of Seattle's street grid in this transition zone, where Wallingford shades into the Green Lake neighborhood. The neighborhood is thought to have been created by real estate agents during the housing boom. Of note are its "K streets": Kensington, Kenwood, Keystone, and Kirkwood Places N.

One of the neighborhood's principal landmarks The Keystone Building, built in 1910 by D.J. Orner & Son (see image below) has been the home of various businesses over the years. In 1938, the building housed the Barclay's Grocery, Kenwood Market and Sires Brother's Paint Company. From 1956 it became the longstanding Lamont's Food Center until the 1980s when it was converted to the Honey Bear Bakery, while the East side of the building became the M&R Grocer. Today the West corner of the building is home to the Elysian Brewing Company's Tangletown pub (the old Honeybear bakery) while the East side is now the Mighty-O Donuts headquarters.

The neighborhood is bounded on the south by N 50th Street, beyond which is the rest of Wallingford; on the west by Green Lake Way N., beyond which is Woodland Park and Phinney Ridge; on the north by N 60th Street, beyond which is the Green Lake neighborhood, and on the east by Interstate 5, beyond which is the University District. Its main thoroughfares are Meridian Avenue N, Kirkwood Place N, and Latona Avenue NE (north- and southbound) and NE 56th Street (east- and westbound).

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  Tangletown pub