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Moss, George & Dolly, House |
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| Style: |
Arts & Crafts - Craftsman |
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Queen Anne |
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Year Built: |
1907 |
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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 a good example of a Craftsman house, one of several fine houses in this style found in this vicinity. The large brackets, half-timbering, corner bay, and the combination of materials are particularly notable. The building permit is not available, so that nothing is known about the builder. However, it may have been built as a speculative house, as it was purchased shortly after completion by Dolly B. Moss. She and her husband George, an elevator operator for the Crane Company, lived here until the 1940s. Howard MacDonald, a restaurant chef, and his wife Emily then lived here until the 1970s.
This house is in the Front Street Cable Addition, platted by Jacob Furth in 1890. Furth was president of the Seattle Electric Company and the Puget Sound Electric Railway (the Interurban). His plan was to extend the streetcar to this addition, but it actually stopped about three-quarters of a mile away.
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| Appearance |
| This is a good example of a Craftsman-style house, with characteristics such as prominent brackets and a variety of cladding materials. The two-story house has a steep front gable with deep eaves and large brackets. The gabled porch on the north half of the main (west) façade has two square posts, an eight-light window, a clapboard balustrade and a plain wood stair rail. Cladding is clapboard with stucco in the gable end and wider clapboard below the water table; a belt course separates the stucco and clapboard. The gable end has a trio of six-opver-one windows flanked by two small plain windows. The first floor has a projecting corner bay covered by a prominent gabled roof with brackets; it has two eight-over-one windows. There is a side entry on the north elevation, toward the front, with no hood or porch. |
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