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1900, but it still needed some help to manage the hill. So engineers designed a system
of counterweights - a 16-ton train that ran in a tunnel beneath the street would go up
when the cable car went down and vice versa.
The cable cars were retired in 1943, but the underground tunnels are still there.
TURRET HOUSE
LANDMARK
(cnr W Halladay St & 6th Ave W; 2)
This adorable castle-like building, with gables and
(appropriately enough) turrets galore, was once the home of the Love Israel Family, an
ex-hippie commune turned religious cult. Love Family members were famous for huff-
ing noxious gasses, refusing to cut their hair and believing they were each part of the
body of Jesus Christ. The building has since been converted to apartments.
QUEEN ANNE WHO?
Observant students of history might wonder why the Seattle neighborhood of
Queen Anne is named after an undistinguished British queen who reigned
between the years 1702 and 1714, 150 years before the city was even founded.
The answer is rooted in architecture. The hill on which the Queen Anne neighbor-
hood sits is embellished by a rather nebulous style of revivalist architecture first
concocted in the UK in the 1860s and brought to North America in the early
1880s, where it remained in vogue until around 1910 (when the neighborhood
was being laid out). Queen Anne architecture supposedly harked back to the Eng-
lish baroque buildings of the early 18th century (during the reign of Queen Anne),
but the name quickly became something of a misnomer, as the revivalist Queen
Anne style took on a life of its own, particularly in the US. Typical Queen Anne fea-
tures in North America include large bay windows, wraparound porches, steep
gabled roofs, polygonal towers, shingles, and lavish gardens. To see some of the
more whimsical examples, wander at will among the large private houses on top
of Queen Anne Hill. The mansions along Highland Dr are particularly opulent.
Lake Union
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