Seattle Zoo (Woodland Park Zoo) in United States


Seattle Zoo (Woodland Park Zoo)
Local name Woodland Park Zoo
Typezoo
Owner
Founded1899
Address 601 No. 59th Street
Zip-code 98103
Place Seattle, WA
Country United States
Website Website
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Seattle Zoo (Woodland Park Zoo), located at 601 No. 59th Street, in Seattle, WA, United States , was founded in 1899.


Comments / picturesWoodland Park Zoo, which occupies the western half of Seattle\'s (USA) Woodland Park, near Green Lake, began as a small menagerie on the Woodland Park estate of Guy C. Phinney, Canadian-born lumber mill owner and real estate developer. Opened in 1899, the 188-acre Woodland Park was sold to the city for $5,000 in cash and the assumption of a $95,000 mortgage on December 28, 1899, by Phinney\'s wife (Phinney had died six years earlier, in 1893). The sum was so large that the Seattle mayor vetoed the acquisition, only to be over-ruled by the city council. In 1902, the Olmsted Brothers firm of Boston was hired to design the city\'s parks, including Woodland Park, and the next year the collection of the private Leschi Park menagerie was moved to Phinney Ridge.

Its collection includes: 1,145 animal specimens, 290 animal Species, Woodland Park Zoo had 1.05 million visitors in 2006.

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Koehl, Dan (2021). Seattle Zoo (Woodland Park Zoo), Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=437. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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