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Frederick W. Winters House

Bellevue's only building on the National Register of Historic Places, a 1929 Spanish Eclectic mansion.

1929
Built
Listed 1992
National Register

The Frederick W. Winters House is a Spanish Eclectic-style mansion built in 1929 by Frederick and Cecilia Winters along what is now Bellevue Way SE. It is the only building in Bellevue listed on the National Register of Historic Places, earning that designation in 1992.

Owned by the City of Bellevue and restored in partnership with the Eastside Heritage Center, the house has served as a heritage exhibit space and the center's headquarters, with programming on local history. The surrounding grounds reflect the area's early-20th-century estate and strawberry-farming past.

The house closed in 2016 for the construction of Sound Transit's East Link (2 Line) light rail extension, which passes nearby, and its reopening has been tied to the completion of that project.

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Local history organization

Eastside Heritage Center

Old Bellevue

Nonprofit preserving Eastside history, with 30,000+ artifacts, formed from two earlier historical societies in 2001.

Type
Local history nonprofit
Formed
2001 (merger of two societies)
Predecessors
Bellevue Historical Society (1986), Marymoor Museum (1965)
Light rail line

2 Line (East Link Light Rail)

Downtown

Sound Transit's 33-mile light rail line linking Seattle to the Eastside, with eight stations in and near Bellevue.

Length
33 miles
Operator
Sound Transit
Bellevue stations
6
Public aquatic facility

Bellevue Aquatic Center

Lake Hills

City-run indoor aquatic center with a warm-water therapy pool and a lap pool, serving east Bellevue.

Type
Public indoor aquatic center
Pools
Warm Springs therapy pool & Blue Lagoon lap pool
Operator
City of Bellevue Parks
Art museum

Bellevue Arts Museum

3 fl

Downtown

Steven Holl-designed art, craft and design museum in downtown Bellevue, a landmark of the city's pedestrian corridor.

Type
Art, craft and design museum
Building opened
2001
Architect
Steven Holl