| Historic Name: |
Four Hundred Blaine Apartments |
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| Style: |
Tudor |
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Queen Anne |
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Year Built: |
1909 |
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| Significance |
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In the opinion of the survey, this property appears to meet the criteria of the National Register of Historic Places. |
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In the opinion of the survey, this property appears to meet the criteria of the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Ordinance. |
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In the opinion of the survey, this property is located in a potential historic districe (National and/or local). |
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This is an unusual small (five unit) brick-clad apartment house, with an enclosed entry with a terrace and sunporch. It is a relatively early example of apartment development (1909), showing how multifamily housing was integrated into single family neighborhoods before zoning prohibited the practice in the 1920s. No building permit has been located, so little is known about its origins. Between 1935 and 1967 it appears to have had eight different owners. It appears to be highly intact, except that a garage in the rear has been demolished.
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| Appearance |
| This small apartment house has red brick cladding and a flat roof with a gabled parapet. There is extensive white cast stone ornament including coping on the parapet and a belt course below it. Gables on the parapet have stylized cast stone ornament; ther eis one on the south elevation and two on the west. The entry is at the southwest corner through an enclosed porch with leaded glass windows. The roof of this entry porch is a terrace with an X-patterned wood balustrade. At the east end of the terrace is a sunporch with 10-light leaded windows. Front (west) windows are one-over-one, with those on the south being eight-over-one. The east elevation, looking into a leafy backyard, has a projecting brick bay and a narrow porch with a balustrade similar to that on the front. |
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