Wallingford
Streetcar-suburb hill above Lake Union with early-twentieth-century homes, a landmark former reform school, and a lively North Forty-Fifth Street strip.
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This guide to the building on Wallingford's hill in Seattle centers on August 8, 1967, when a fire alarm sent eighty-five girls and sixteen nuns out of what had been, since 1907, the Home of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic refuge for girls the courts or their families had given up on. It traces the strict rhythm of Mass, rosary and chores that ran the building, and the official verdict that the fire's cause was never determined. One sister, years later, told a very different story about how it started.
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