LFP History #2: North Seattle Improvement Company

Bertram E. Corlett, Supervising Engineer, and crew in their campsite, while platting Lake Forest Park.
1910
Photo courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum

Lake Forest Park celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2011. Courtesy of the City of Lake Forest Park and the Shoreline Historical Museum, The ShorelineAreaNews will be reprinting the historical series about Lake Forest Park which originally appeared in the Towne Crier in 2009.

This photograph is of the North Seattle Improvement Company which was incorporated in December 1909 to purchase, plat, and handle sales of roughly 1,280 acres.  This acreage was destined to become the four original Lake Forest Park plats.  The men behind the formation of this sales organization were Ole Hanson and A.H. Reid. 

Bender, Barbara L. Drake Growing Up With Lake Forest Park: Early Decades in “North Seattle”. Seattle: Creative Communications, 1983