Queen Anne High School, high school in Washington, United States
Queen Anne High School is a school building in Washington located atop a hill with solid brick construction and detailed ornamentation from the early 20th century. The structure features English palace-inspired architecture with tall terra cotta decorations and originally contained classrooms, laboratories, and specialized spaces for manual training and domestic science.
The building opened in 1909 as Seattle experienced rapid growth following the Alaska Gold Rush, creating demand for more school spaces. It expanded in the 1920s and 1950s to accommodate increasing enrollment, but closed in 1981 due to declining student numbers and was later converted into residential apartments.
The name refers to the neighborhood on the hill where this building stands. The school served as a gathering place where students from different areas developed a shared identity, symbolized by the grizzly bear mascot adopted in 1930.
The building sits atop a hill and is visible from many parts of the city, making it easy to locate. It now functions as a residential complex with restored exterior features, and the old gymnasium and athletic fields remain accessible to the public as part of community spaces.
The school adopted a grizzly bear as its symbol in 1930, inspired by a wooden figure on the roof of the Grizzly Inn restaurant across the street. Students and visitors developed a playful tradition of stealing bricks from the figure as a joke, making the place memorable for generations.
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