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Briarcliff

Also known as Carleton Park.

A view from a Magnolia bluff street toward the downtown Seattle skyline across Elliott Bay, framed by the gnarled limbs and peeling red bark of a madrona tree, with houses and hedges on the slope below

Briarcliff · September 2010

Posted Aug 18, 2026

Named After the Wrong Tree

The neighborhood is named for a tree that does not grow here, and the culprit is holding up the left side of this frame.