It’s been a couple of weeks since we last poked our noses into the Green Lake Archives.
We recently took another peek and found this gem. Judging from the content of adjacent articles, the following appears to have been last published in 1902, although the exact date and the name of the original publication are unknown.
Green Lake = = An Ideal Home Place
By A. H. RogersIt is the purpose of this article to set forth with as much brevity and conciseness as is possible, a few reasons which will serve to explain the fact that the writer has chosen Green Lake as a place of residence.
In search of a permanent home I came to Puget Sound in 1891, after visiting all the larger cities and most of the smaller towns of the Northwest.
Something worthy of praise was found in each, but concluding that there will be one city destined to lead all others, we located in the Queen City, Seattle.
Our next move was to determine what part of this fair city should we adopt as our future home. We looked Seattle over form every view point but it was the beautiful mirrored Green Lake district that completely captured us and we never have had occasion to regret our decision.
About five years ago the writer drifted unexpectedly into the real estate business and ever since he has endeavored to talk and show Green Lake in as truthful a light as possible – as a home place.
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Seymour home, 1909 Possibly at 6904 Weedin Place. Seattle Municipal Archives.
The fact that Green Lake is a prohibition territory makes it very desirable as a place in which to live. Every business man of common sense knows that the farthest away he gets in the evening from his daily commercial associations the better off he is and the wiser life he leads. As to the women, it is a safe assertion that the great majority, if given their own free choice would live out in the suburbs, away from the nerve-distracting tumult and hubub of the city. We believe now, as we have in the past, that Green Lake is the best home suburb of Seattle and that in the next five years will outgrow all other parts of our city as a home place for the masses. We notice that the only good thing our rival real estate men say about us when putting their property on the market is: “It’s as good as Green Lake.”
Home – the sweetest word in human language. It belongs in the holy triplet of Mother, Home and Heaven. Poor lone Howard Payne, who had no home, once said:
“From love so great,
Oh, who would roam?
Be it ever so humble,
There’s no place like home!”And he might have added, “at Green Lake.”
(emphasis added)
