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B. F. Day began in 1889 in the home of the Steele family. In the late 1880's, Fremont was reached by boat. Passengers rode the "Maude Foster" or the "Mud Hen" and landed at a dock at the foot of what is now Stone Way. The School moved many times in its tenure, at the time Washington had been a state only three years and the University of Washington was located in downtown Seattle.
In 1891, the Seattle School District received what was probably the most generous donation in its history. A block of 20 lots, valued at the time at $10,000 was given by Benjamin Franklin Day and Francis Day who owned neighboring farmland and donated this land to assure a school site for their community. In accepting the gift, the Seattle School Board passed a set of resolutions. They expressed a deep appreciation and pledged to erect a brick school building on the site "to cost no less than $25,000 and to be called the B.F. Day School.
B.F. Day is the oldest continually operating elementary school in the Seattle School District. The 67,500 square foot building received a 5 million dollar renovation in 1991 to assure that the classic turn-of-the-century school would continue to offer students a safe and lovely learning environment.
