First Hill
First Hill is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is named for the hill on which it is located, which in turn is so named for being the first hill encountered while traveling east from downtown Seattle toward Lake Washington.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, USA
- Also known as: “First Hill, Seattle” and “Pill Hill”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Swedish Health Services and St. James Cathedral.
Swedish Health Services
Hospital
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Swedish Health Services is a nonprofit healthcare provider in the Seattle metropolitan area. It operates five hospital campuses, ambulatory care centers in the cities of Redmond and Mill Creek, and Swedish Medical Group, a network of more than 100 primary-care and specialty clinics.
St. James Cathedral
Church
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. James Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral located at 804 Ninth Avenue in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Seattle and the seat of its archbishop, currently Paul D.
Seattle Central Library
Library
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The Seattle Central Library is the flagship library of the Seattle Public Library system. The 11-story glass and steel building in the downtown core of Seattle, Washington was opened to the public on May 23, 2004.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seattle and Downtown Seattle.
Seattle
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Seattle, Washington sits at one of the most beautiful spots in the United States. Occupying a narrow isthmus between the Puget Sound and Lake Washington, it is the biggest city in the Pacific Northwest, with 780,000 people in Seattle and over four million people in the metro area.
Downtown Seattle
Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Packed between Elliott Bay and the hilly neighborhoods to the east, Downtown Seattle unsurprisingly contains the city's bustling financial and retail district.
Yesler Terrace
Suburb
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yesler Terrace is a 22-acre mixed-income, mixed-use neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was originally completed in 1941 as the state's first public housing development and the first racially integrated public housing development in the United States.
First Hill
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: City of Seattle, King County, Puget Sound, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.60931° or 47° 36′ 34″ northLongitude
-122.32498° or 122° 19′ 30″ westElevation
344 feet (105 metres)Open location code
84VVJM5G+P2OpenStreetMap ID
node 140589330OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to French—“First Hill” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “第一山”
- Dutch: “First Hill”
- French: “First Hill”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “First Hill”. Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.