OpenStreetMap (new tab)

Google Map (new tab)

Google Streetview (new tab)

Overview

This collection of makeshift shanties stood on a vacant lot once part of the Skinner and Eddy Shipyard, just west of Alaskan Way, and parallel to the location of the former Kingdome and later Qwest (Lumen) Field. Beginning in the fall of 1931, the first shanties were erected, and, during the remainder of the decade, between 1,000 and 1,500 men lived on this flat, nine-acre site that had once been tidal marshland, but was, in the 1930s, in the midst of an industrial landscape. The almost entirely male population constructed between 600 and 1,000 shelters on the site, which were removed permanently by 1941. This was the largest of about eight Hoovervilles that existed in Seattle during the Depression Era.

PCAD id: 11802