Metropolitan Tract (Seattle, Wash.)

found: Work cat.: Hines, N.O. Denny's knoll : a history of the Metropolitan tract of the University of Washington, c1980:pref. (piece of land once a campus and now a public property at the commercial center of Seattle; ten-acre private gift that has remained a public trust, a university land endowment; the Metropolitan tract is a state property developed by private corporations under lease terms; Metropolitan Building Company left its name on the property) p. 35 (Old University Site) p. 61 (tract of ten acres which was formerly the campus of the University of Washington) p. 80 (University Tract)

found: HistoryLink.org, Mar. 31, 2006:Ryan, James M. (UNICO Properties manages the 10-acre parcel of property in the heart of downtown Seattle owned by the University of Washington and known as the Metropolitan Tract) Olympic Hotel (Formerly called "Denny's Knoll," the Metropolitan Tract was a four-block area of downtown donated by Arthur Denny in 1861 for the Territorial University. The University of Washington Board of Regents continued to own the tract after the campus relocated north of Portage Bay in 1895. The area grew in value as Seattle's downtown expanded north from Pioneer Square, and after several false steps, the Regents leased it to the Metropolitan Building Company (MBC) in 1904 to develop it in trust for the University over the next 50 years. (The Tract is now managed by Unico.))

found: Sykes, T. University of Washington report on Metropolitan Tract, 2000:attachment B, pp. 1-2 (In 1860, the Legislative Assembly of the Washington Territory est. a university in Seattle, if ten acres were granted from private owners. That land, in what is now downtown Seattle, became the original site of the University of Washington. In 1895, the university moved to its present location. The state retained ownership of the original acreage; however, the University's Board of Regents has developed and managed this "Metropolitan Tract" on behalf of the state since then; Metro Tract)

found: The Metropolitan Tract of the University of Washington, 1961:v. 1, vii (The Metropolitan Tract of the University of Washington is the ten-acre plot of land in downtown Seattle on which the first University building was erected in 1861; property has been preserved as a University endowment)