Leschi
Leschi is a neighborhood in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. Located on the western shore of Lake Washington, the residential neighborhood was named by its 19th-century developer for Chief Leschi of the Nisqually tribe, who was executed by territorial authorities in 1858 in Pierce County, Washington.- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighborhood of Seattle
- Also known as: “Leschi, Seattle”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Frink Park and Temple Pastries.
Frink Park
Park
Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Frink Park is a 17.2 acre park in the Leschi neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It is a heavily wooded hillside and ravine through which flows Frink Creek.
Temple Pastries
Pâtisserie
Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Temple Pastries is a bakery in Seattle's Central District, in the U.S. state of Washington. Christina Wood started the business as a pop-up in 2018, and relocated to a brick-and-mortar restaurant in partnership with Broadcast Coffee Roasters in 2020.
Nora’s Woods
Park
Nora's Woods is an undeveloped city park and native plant garden in the Madrona neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The 0.35-acre house lot-sized wooded area is named for Seattleite Nora Wood, who purchased the land in 1987 that was given to The Trust for Public Land after her death in 1989.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Central District and Madrona.
Central District
Suburb
The Central District is a mostly residential neighborhood in Seattle located east of downtown and First Hill; west of Madrona, Leschi and Mt. Baker neighborhoods; south of Capitol Hill, and north of Rainier Valley.
Madrona
Suburb
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Madrona is a mostly residential neighborhood in east Seattle, Washington. It is bounded on the east by Lake Washington; on the south by E. Cherry Street, beyond which is Leschi; on the west by Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
Leschi
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: City of Seattle, King County, Puget Sound, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.60054° or 47° 36′ 2″ northLongitude
-122.29187° or 122° 17′ 31″ westElevation
203 feet (62 metres)Open location code
84VVJP25+67OpenStreetMap ID
node 1998438951OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Leschi” goes by many names.
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Saint Matthew Missionary Baptist Church and Leschi Park.
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