The Gold Coast is an affluent area in Seattle's Eastside suburbs. It includes Clyde Hill, Medina, Yarrow Point and Hunts Point. [1] [2] Each of these municipalities ranked in Business Week's 2010 list of most expensive small towns in America. [3] Sometimes Beaux Arts Village is also included with the Gold Coast. [4]
Medina has been known as the Gold Coast since the 1890s. [5] The first mansion was built at Yarrow Point in 1888, and by the 1920s the area had several mansions belonging to the wealthy. [6]
Areas of Seattle's Madison Park, a swath of often extremely expensive homes with lake views, are also called "Gold Coast". [7]
Several billionaires reside in Gold Coast cities, [8] including:
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Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, located across Lake Washington from Seattle. It is the third-largest city in the Seattle metropolitan area and has variously been characterized as a satellite city, a suburb, a boomburb, or an edge city. Its population was 122,363 at the 2010 census and 151,854 in the 2020 census. The city's name is derived from the French term belle vue.
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Clyde Hill is a city located in King County, Washington. It is part of the Eastside region, located to the east of Seattle, and is bordered by the cities and towns of Bellevue, Kirkland, Medina, Yarrow Point and Hunts Point. The population was 2,984 at the 2010 census.
Hunts Point is a town in the Eastside, a region of King County, Washington, United States, and part of the Seattle metropolitan area. The town is on a small peninsula surrounded by Lake Washington, and is near the suburbs of Medina, Clyde Hill, Yarrow Point, and Kirkland, as well as the city of Bellevue. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 394.
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