Fort Lawton

Fort Lawton
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Fort Lawton post exchange and gymnasium
Location	Seattle, Washington
Built	1900–1917
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	78002752
Added to NRHP	August 15, 1978

Fort Lawton was a United States Army post located in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle, Washington overlooking Puget Sound. In 1973 a large majority of the property, 534 acres of Fort Lawton, was given to the city of Seattle and dedicated as Discovery Park. Both the fort and the nearby residential neighborhood of Lawton Wood are named after Major General Henry Ware Lawton.

While Fort Lawton was a quiet outpost prior to World War II, it became the second largest port of embarkation of soldiers and materiel to the Pacific Theater during the war. The fort was included in the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure list. Fort Lawton officially closed on September 14, 2011.