Wedgwood Neighborhood
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Founded in the 1940s by one of two venture capitalists who had previously founded neighboring View Ridge, Wedgwood has fast developed into one of North Seattle’s most diverse and progressive neighborhoods. In addition to featuring a sizable bedroom community, Wedgwood is home to many locally famous businesses, including Grateful Bread, the Van Gogh Coffeehouse, and Top Pot Doughnuts.
Wedgwood took off as the site of several small urban farms between the 1920s and the 1960s. In the 1970s, the Puget Consumers’ Co-Op (PCC) convinced the city to lease (and later purchase) an abandoned farm, and turned it into Seattle’s first P-Patch garden. Since then, the P-Patch program in Seattle has flourished in neighborhoods across the city.
Wedgwood’s name has sparked a bit of confusion in recent years—many businesses and organizations in the neighborhood currently misspell the name “Wedgewood” with an added ‘e’. In fact, the neighborhood founder’s wife, reportedly dissatisfied with her husband’s naming of “View Ridge”, chose “Wedgwood” from her favorite variety of English china—the ‘e’ spelling is simply incorrect.
To learn more about Wedgwood and View Ridge, visit the neighborhoods’ blog, WedgwoodView.com.
