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| Space Needle at Seattle Center. Photo: Tim Thompson |
A community within walking distance of Downtown Seattle, Queen Anne is situated just north of Seattle Center and just south of Fremont across the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
As a neighborhood Queen Anne can refer either to the entire hill or to the central residential and business district at the top of the hill. It is to be distinguished from Lower Queen Anne, also known as Uptown which refers to the area at the southern base of the hill, just north and west of Seattle Center.
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| Norhwest Folklife Festival at Seattle Center |
The historic Queen Anne mansions (the name derives from the architectural style, typical of so many of the early homes) are home to many of Seattle's economic and cultural elite. In 1962, Lower Queen Anne became the site of the Century 21 Exposition, a World's Fair.
The fairgrounds are now the campus of Seattle Center, home to the Space Needle, Pacific Science Center, Experience Music Project, Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, the north terminal of the Seattle monorail, and KeyArena, home of the Seattle Storm and Seattle Thunderbirds sports teams.
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