Seattle's Atlantic neighborhood (which has also been referred to as Yesler/Atlantic and Judkins Park) is a triangular community in the Central District area, between Mount Baker Ridge and Beacon Hill. One of Seattle's oldest residential neighborhoods, it was home to Seattle's largest Italian enclaves during the early years of the twentieth century. Like other neighborhoods in central and southeast Seattle, Black and Asian families moved in after World War II when exclusionary housing practices known as “redlining” excluded them from neighborhoods in the west and north of Seattle. First altered in the construction of the Lacy V. Murrow Floating Bridge in 1940, the neighborhood suffered greatly during the 1960s through the early 1990s with the construction and widening of Interstate 90 that wiped out a large number of homes in the area and divided the neighborhood. An urban renewal project from 1968-1972 “rehabilitated” a part of the Atlantic neighborhood, which later saw significant gentrification in the early 2000s.

This image of the Atlantic neighborhood was taken facing east towards the Cascade Mountains, visible in the distance at the top of the frame. Rainier Avenue South runs north-south along the bottom of the frame. I-90 runs along the left edge of the frame, heading east, paralleled by South Atlantic Street in the center of the frame. The large brick building in the center of the frame housed Colman Elementary School (later Thurgood Marshall Elementary School) on Atlantic Street and 24th Avenue South from 1912-1979, and since 2008 has been the home of the Northwest African American Museum.

Caption information source: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/neighborhood-of-the-week-atlantic
Caption information source: "Atlantic Street Center (Seattle)," by Mary T. Henry, HistoryLink.org Essay 9613
Caption information source: "Seattle Public Schools, 1862-2000: Thurgood Marshall Elementary School," HistoryLink.org Essay 10598