Editing Street layout of Seattle (section)

==Street grid layout==
[[File:Hotel Seattle - 1900.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Hotel Seattle]] (pictured here in 1900, now demolished). To the right, Yesler Way follows Maynard's plat, and runs due east. To the left, James Street follows Denny's plat, and runs 32 degrees north of east. ]]
Most streets in Seattle run either north–south or east–west. However, this orientation does not prevail in one of the oldest and densest parts of the town, bounded by [[Elliott Bay]] to the west, Broadway to the east, Yesler Way to the south, and [[Denny Way]] to the north. That exceptional area includes all of the [[Downtown, Seattle|Downtown]] Central Business District (<abbr>CBD</abbr>), the northernmost part of the [[Pioneer Square, Seattle|Pioneer Square]] neighborhood south of the <abbr>CBD</abbr>, [[First Hill, Seattle|First Hill]] east of the <abbr>CBD</abbr>, and [[Belltown, Seattle|Belltown]] and the [[Denny Regrade, Seattle|Denny Regrade]] north of the <abbr>CBD</abbr>.<ref name="Samson">{{Harvnb|Samson|2006}}</ref>

The grid is oriented 32 degrees west of north in the southern portion of that exceptional area, and 49 degrees west of north in the northern portion. The two portions are divided by a line that runs along Stewart Street (or its right-of-way) from Alaskan Way on the [[Central Waterfront, Seattle|Central Waterfront]] east to 3rd Avenue, then along Olive Way from 3rd Avenue to 7th Avenue, and along Howell Street from 7th Avenue to Denny Way.<ref name="Samson" />

===Origins===
These three grid patterns (due north, 32 degrees west of north, and 49 degrees west of north) are the result of a disagreement between [[David Swinson Maynard|David Swinson "Doc" Maynard]], whose land claim lay south of Yesler Way, and [[Arthur A. Denny]] and [[Denny party|Carson D. Boren]], whose land claims lay to the north (with [[Henry Yesler]] and his mill soon brought in between Denny and the others):<ref name=Speidel67>{{Harvnb|Speidel|1967}}</ref><!-- page number? --> Denny and Boren preferred that their streets follow the [[Elliott Bay]] shoreline, while Maynard favored a grid based on the [[cardinal directions]] for his (mostly flat, mostly wet) claim. All three were competing to have the downtown built on their land. Denny prevailed in what would become the [[central business district]], but it was Maynard's grid that ended up being extended throughout the city<ref name=Speidel67 /><ref>{{Harvnb|Phelps|1978}}</ref><!-- page number? --> and into all of [[King County, Washington|King County]] (60 miles east to west). Several cities in King County, such as [[Renton, Washington|Renton]], [[Kirkland, Washington|Kirkland]], and [[North Bend, Washington|North Bend]], have their own naming system and grid in the center of town, but Maynard's Pioneer Square–based grid officially covers the entire county.<ref name="Samson" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Gaudette |first=Karen |date=March 25, 2005 |title=The ABCs and 123s of Eastside streets |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20050325/ontheroad25e/the-abcs-and-123s-of-eastside-streets |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=March 3, 2019}}</ref>