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Common Name: |
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Style: |
Tudor - Cottage |
Neighborhood: |
Mount Baker |
Built By: |
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Year Built: |
1925 |
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Significance |
In the opinion of the survey, this property appears to meet the criteria of the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Ordinance. |
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Built in 1925, this building was designed by the Seattle architecture firm, Stoddard & Son. M. D. Ford was the contractor. Arthur and Adeline H. Webb purchased the property in April of 1925 and occupied the building through 1943. Polk directories indicate that Ferdinand, Junior and Emma A. Schmitz also moved into the building ca 1937. By 1954 through 1958, Jack E. Jones (John) lived in the building.
George Wellington Stoddard (1896-1967) practiced in partnership with his father, Lewis M. Stoddard, starting in 1920 and continuing until his father’s death in 1929. Stoddard & Son designed the Winthrop Hotel (1927) in Tacoma. George W. Stoddard practiced architecture in Seattle until 1959. He had his own office until 1955, when he entered a partnership with Francis Huggard. George W. Stoddard’s best known works are the Green Lake Aqua Theater, Memorial Stadium at Seattle Center, and the south stands of Husky Stadium. He designed large homes, clinics, banks, and apartment buildings. Some of his buildings were in the Moderne style, such as the Harlan Fairbanks Company on Elliott Avenue.
The Mount Baker neighborhood comprises two north-south tending ridges located southeast of downtown Seattle along Lake Washington. Initial development of the area occurred relatively late, post-1900, following the construction of the Rainier Avenue Electric Street Railway in the 1890s. York Station on Rainier Avenue and the Dose Addition were developed earlier than the Mount Baker Park Addition, platted in 1907 by the Hunter Tract Improvement Company. The Mount Baker Park Addition represents the core of the neighborhood and is its primary character-defining feature. Mount Baker Park is one of Seattle’s earliest planned residential communities that successfully integrated the natural environment and a relatively exclusive residential neighborhood in its layout of lots, streets, boulevards, and parks. The houses, primarily built between 1905 and 1929, reflect a variety of eclectic and Northwest-based architectural styles, and include designs by many prominent local architects.
Other important influences were the streetcar connection with downtown Seattle, the integration of local parks and boulevards into the Olmsted system, the construction of Franklin High School in 1912, and the building of the Mount Baker tunnel and Lacey V. Murrow Floating Bridge to Mercer Island in 1940. Today this middle-to-upper income neighborhood remains predominantly residential, is home to an ethnically diverse population, and retains much of its planned character.
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Appearance |
Built in 1925, this Tudor Revival style, single-family cottage stands on a rectangular lot. The building is oriented to Mount Saint Helens Place South on a sloped site at street level. This 1212 square foot, two-story house with a three-quarter daylight basement features an irregular plan, measuring approximately 41’ by 32’, with a recessed front stoop. A poured concrete foundation supports the wood frame, stucco-clad superstructure. Asphalt composition roofing covers the steeply pitched side gable roof. Nearly flush gable ends with trim and slight eave overhangs and exposed rafter ends define the roofline. Wood sash 6:6 single and paired windows provide day lighting. A small oriel window projects over the front entrance. A prominent bay window projects on the front facade. Notable elements are the entrance configuration consisting of decorative brickwork around the doorway with flanking windows and an oriel window above. A brick chimney services the building. |
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Status: |
Yes - Inventory |
Classication: |
Building |
District Status: |
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Cladding(s): |
Stucco |
Foundation(s): |
Concrete - Poured |
Roof Type(s): |
Gable |
Roof Material(s): |
Asphalt/Composition |
Building Type: |
Domestic - Single Family |
Plan: |
Irregular |
Structural System: |
Balloon Frame/Platform Frame |
No. of Stories: |
two |
Unit Theme(s): |
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Integrity |
Changes to Plan: |
Intact |
Changes to Windows: |
Intact |
Changes to Original Cladding: |
Intact |
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Major Bibliographic References |
City of Seattle DCLU Microfilm Records.
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King County Property Record Card (c. 1938-1972), Washington State Archives.
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Polk's Seattle Directories, 1890-1996.
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City of Seattle. Survey of City-Owned Historic Resources. Prepared by Cathy Wickwire, Seattle, 2001. Forms for Ravenna Park structures.
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Historic Seattle Preservation and Development Authority. "Mount Baker: An Inventory of Buildings and Urban Design Resources."
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Mount Baker Community Club. Flowers We All Love Best in Mount Baker Park, (reprint of 1915 ed.)
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Tobin, Caroline. (2004) "Mount Baker Historic Context Statement."
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Architects Reference Files, Special Collections and Preservation Division, University of Washington Libraries.
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Dietz, Duane, “Architects and Landscape Architects of Seattle, 1876 to 1959 and Beyond,” unpublished paper. University of Washington Libraries, July 1993.
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Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects. Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994.
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