Seattle neighborhood Green Lake used to be a suburb only connected to the city by trolley – its true! Green Lake is a fabulous neighborhood in Seattle, but here is something you might not have known:

The suburb of Green Lake became part of the city and in 1903 the city approved a park development plan from the Olmstead Brothers which included a lovely public park around Green Lake. So far you are bored and wondering where I am going with this because obviously there is a park around Green Lake that we all love and use as often as possible, right?

This is the amazing part: By the time Olmsted decided to design the park around Green Lake, the real estate developments had already been built down to the water’s edge! You know what Olmsted did so that we could have the park we have today?

In 1911 he decided to have Green Lake lowered.

He had the lake lowered and gained 100 acres of dry land for the park that we know today! Can you believe it? Can you imagine if you were a waterfront property owner at the time? What if he hadn’t? Can you imagine Green Lake without the park around it?

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