Houghton, Washington

Consisting mostly of upscale, single-family homes, Houghton overlooks Lake Washington and is one of the wealthier districts of the Eastside suburbs of Seattle.

[1] The headquarters of the Seattle Seahawks were located in Houghton, near Northwest University until moving to new quarters in Renton in 2008.

In earlier times, Houghton was home to a large shipbuilding operation, the Lake Washington Shipyards (a U.S. Navy contractor) previously named the Anderson Steamboat Company.

It is located directly across the lake from Sand Point Naval Air Station, which was decommissioned in the 1970s.

Stewart Heights was a residential area just east of the Burlington Northern tracks on the grounds of what became Northwest University.