Friends of Magnuson Park Grants

Friends of Magnuson Park

The project proposes to exhibit the historic uses of the Magnuson Community Center from the Naval Station Puget Sound era. There are many incredible stories associated with the Community Center building, a history that everyone who continues to use the building can connect with. We seek to tell those stories with an emphasis on the people of color who trained, performed, and played here when it was the Naval Air Station Seattle Recreation Center. The center is currently undergoing renovations and will soon open a new chapter in its 80 plus year history. There is no better time to tell these stories and preserve part of the building and the black community's legacy. The anticipated project completion date is May 31, 2023.

Friends of Magnuson Park

The Building 41 Teen Mural Project will tell the history of aviation at the Magnuson park through the installation of colorful murals over 17 windows of a highly visible, unused building within the Sand Point Naval Air Station Historic District. The project will take place over several weeks in the summer of 2021, with anticipated completion date of October 29, 2021.