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The Interlaken Land Company, headquartered in the Bailey Building 2.5 miles away, offered lots priced from $800 to $5,000 in 1909. Houses would be restricted in price, meaning they needed to cost between $2,500 and $10,000. A brochure issued by the developer emphasized its convenient location to Downtown and other parts of the city and made special effort to discuss the natural beauty of the tract: "Interlaken lays claim to more attractions and advantages than any other residence district in the city. It is located at the geographical center of the city, 2 1-2 miles from Pioneer Square, within easy reach of all the centers of city life. It has ample car service. It embraces the most picturesque local scenery in or about Seattle, and offers incomparable views of mountains and lakes. It encloses one City Parkway, and adjoins two improved City Parks unequalled for beauty, and containing the only finished macadam boulevard of the parkway system. It possesses all the frontage on both sides of Interlaken Parkway and overlooks its boulevard--the fashionable drive of Seattle--for its entire length. The district gives you two square feet of park space for every one square foot of residence ground you pay for. All deeds contain restrictions against business and apartment houses." Automobile accessibility and verdant surroundings seem to have been two of the tract's biggest selling points.

PCAD id: 18873