City Hall Park (Seattle)

City Hall Park, also known as Courthouse Park, is a 1.3-acre (0.53 ha) park in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. The total area of the park is divided into a block bounded by 3rd Avenue on the southwest, Dilling Way on the southeast, 4th Avenue on the northeast, and the King County Courthouse on the northwest. The site was formerly a Coast Salish settlement that was damaged during the Battle of Seattle in 1856. It took the name City Hall Park because when it was laid out in 1911, the King County Courthouse was the County-City Building, housing both Seattle and King County government. The second Seattle city hall was located on the park site and nicknamed the "Katzenjammer Castle" for its makeshift nature; city offices moved out of the county courthouse in 1962. The park underwent a minor renovation in 1917 and a major $25,000 renovation during the Century 21 Exposition in 1962, during which benches, a rose garden, and red pavement were added. It had originally been earmarked for use as a staging area by crews renovating the county courthouse building, but intervention from a Parks Board members spurred new investment into "downtown's only green space". The county government had also unsuccessfully proposed the conversion of the park into a parking lot in 1945 as a part of land swap for Duwamish Head. City Hall Park, nicknamed "Muscatel Mead

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