I’ll never forget the day I heard Kurt Cobain died. I was getting ready for school with M-TV News playing in the background when I heard Kurt Loder announce it. I stopped whatever I was doing and just watched the TV. To me it was one of those situations I couldn’t believe happened, yet something I wasn’t surprised about either.
I’m a 90s kid. I grew up in Washington state and absolutely love what I call “the big four” bands of 90s Seattle grunge: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. During my trip to Seattle to get married, I made sure to visit some local grunge era landmarks. I visited Doug Hollis’ sculpture “A Sound Garden“, Discovery Park where the “Hunger Strike” video was filmed and I even drove to Aberdeen to see the Young Street Bridge which Kurt Cobain mentioned in the song “Something in the Way”. I couldn’t leave Seattle though without seeing this infamous house where Kurt died.
Kurt Cobain’s house is located due east of downtown Seattle in the Denny-Blaine neighborhood along Lake Washington. The exact address is 171 Lake Washington Blvd, Seattle, Washington 98122. Next door to the south is Viretta Park where this photo was taken. There are two benches which fans have nicely dedicated to Kurt. Some leave objects and some carve or write things on the benches. Getting here is easy but parking can be a small problem as there is not a dedicated parking lot for the park.