The community's side streets wind around the hill, past cottages and expansive Craftsman homes.

The Alameda neighborhood was established on the 1859 land claim of William C. Bowering and his wife, Isabelle.

The area became known as Gravelly Hill Road for a gravel pit at NE 33rd and Fremont.

The development advertised an extremely broad exclusion in its printed brochure, declaring "no people of undesirable colors and kinds.

"[2] The name comes from the Spanish word "alamo," meaning a poplar or cottonwood tree.