Madrona is located to the west of Lake Washington north of I-90. Madrona Park is located in this small community, which is located south and east of Capitol Hill. Madrona is a neighborhood with an interesting history and a future based on housing prices that have gone crazy the past few years. It is part of the core of original Seattle--the strees in Madrona are labeled neither North nor South. Pike and Pine, the same streets that anchor the Pike Place Market, lead straight through downtown and over Capital Hill to Madrona and into Lake Washington. Many of the homes in Madrona were built of old growth timber in the early 1900s, and several are now listed as historic.