| Historic Name: |
Pratt, Arthur & Dora, House |
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| Style: |
American Foursquare- Colonial |
Neighborhood: |
Queen Anne |
| Built By: |
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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 house, built for Arthur and Dora Pratt in 1909, was featured in "Homes and Gardens of the Pacific Coast, 1913," which noted its commanding position, panoramic view and called the residence "finely constructed with a broad porch and large window space." The extensive grounds and large rockery have now been partially replaced by a retaining wall, although there is still a steep winding pathway through massive granite boulders to reach the front door. The architect was not noted in the article.
Pratt, general manager of Lamporium, Inc., lived here in 1913, and may have been the original owner. His wife Dora remained here into the 1930s, and the house was sold in 1945. Ralph Sutton, owner of Sutton’s Health Center, a public bath in Fremont, and his wife Janet, purchased it in1947. The family still owns the house. It has been used for apartments since the 1960s.
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| Appearance |
| This is a large Classic Box house with a hipped roof, a gabled dormer in front and hipped dormers on the sides. The roof has deep eaves with curved brackets. The front (south) gabled dormer has a Palladian window flanked by leaded twelve-light casements. The other dormers each have a pair of casement windows. In the center of the second floor, above the front porch, is an enclosed sun porch with six-over-one leaded windows, flanked by a pair of similar windows on each side. Below this sunporch is a full-width porch with four pairs of fluted square columns with capitals; this porch is enclosed in a temporary fashion with fiberglass. The west elevation has a hip-roofed hanging bay on the first floor with eight-over-one and six-ver-one windows; there is also a large clinker brick chimney on this side. The north elevation has a porte cochere with a small enclosed entry with fluted columns. This now serves as the main entry. |
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| Status: |
Yes - Inventory |
| Classication: |
Building |
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| Cladding(s): |
Shingle |
Foundation(s): |
Concrete - Poured |
| Roof Type(s): |
Hip |
Roof Material(s): |
Asphalt/Composition-Shingle |
| Building Type: |
Domestic - Single Family |
Plan: |
Rectangular |
| Structural System: |
Balloon Frame/Platform Frame |
No. of Stories: |
two & ½ |
| Unit Theme(s): |
Architecture/Landscape Architecture |
| Integrity |
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Changes to Windows: |
Intact |
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Changes to Plan: |
Intact |
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Changes to Original Cladding: |
Intact |
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| Major Bibliographic References |
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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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Calvert, Frank. Homes and Gardens of the Pacific Coast. Vol. 1, Seattle. Beaux Arts Village: Beaux Arts Society Publishers, 1913.
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