Hillman City

Hillman City is a neighborhood in Seattle, King County, Washington, United States. Hillman City was settled in the 1890s and is named after the colorful Clarence Hillman, a Realtor/Con Artist that made his fortune selling real and imagined plots of land to out of state speculators. Hillman City was never as populous as Columbia City to the North, but it did have a stop on the Rainier Streetcar line. Hillman City was included as a part of the Southeast neighborhood that was annexed into Seattle proper in 1907. Today, Hillman City is centered on the intersection of Rainier Avenue and Orcas Avenue, with a small, somewhat beleaguered old business district with some fine historic buildings. It tends to be seen by locals as a less-gentrified...