Neighborhood Guide
Medina.
A point of land on Lake Washington's east shore, where the lanes end at the water and the hedges run in unbroken walls.
The Portrait
Medina occupies a green thumb of shoreline between the two floating bridges, and it has organized itself around privacy and water in equal measure. The city hall is a former ferry terminal sitting directly on the beach. The Medina Grocery, in business since the early 1900s, still holds its corner. Overlake Golf & Country Club's fairways green the middle of the peninsula, and the traffic — such as it is — is local.
The shoreline carries the estates: long lawns down to private docks, westward views across the water to the Seattle skyline. Inland, the lots stay generous and wooded, holding everything from mid-century ramblers to newly built Northwest contemporaries behind mature plantings. It's a place best measured in shoreline feet and tree canopy.
The housing stock
What Medina is built of.
Large lots and lake frontage set the pattern; the houses on them span a century of Northwest building.
Tudor & Cottage
1920s – 1940sThe older estates — gabled brick and shingle behind the hedge lines, some dating to the ferry-landing years.
Mid-Century PNW Modern
1945 – 1975Post-and-beam ramblers on broad lots, built for the garden and the view.
Contemporary
2000 – todayNew Northwest-modern rebuilds — glass to the lake, cedar and steel — replacing the mid-century stock lot by lot.
Medina is measured in shoreline and canopy, not square footage. The quietest streets on the lake.
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