PCAD - Roman Catholic Church, Western Dominican Province, Newman Center #8, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - religious structures; built works - religious structures - chapels

Exterior view of the UW Catholic Newman Center, Seattle, c. 2007; from the Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD), photo by Sarah Lachman

Exterior view of the main entry to the UW Catholic Newman Center, Seattle, c. 2007; from the Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD), photo by Sarah Lachman

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4502 20th Avenue NE
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105-3302

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Building History

This Roman Catholic center was built to serve students at the nearby University of Washington (UW). Like most Catholic centers at universities in the US, Seattle's chapel/meeting facility was named for the English Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890), who was an important figure in the Anglican Oxford Movement and who eventually joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1845.

Building Notes

The Newman Center began as the Newman Club in c. 1910, when a group of Catholic University of Washington (UW) students, met in leased facilities at 4518 17th Avenue, the former Idaho Pavilion at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909. Subsequently, a meeting place, known as the Newman Center has transferred to various locations (eight in all), mostly converted residences, nearby to the UW Campus.

Tel: 206.527.5072 (2011).

PCAD id: 8808

Roman Catholic Church, Western Dominican Province, Newman Center #8, Seattle, WA (2001)