| Historic Name: |
2003 Boylston |
Common Name: |
2003 Boylston |
| Style: |
Colonial |
Neighborhood: |
Eastlake |
| Built By: |
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Year Built: |
1925 |
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| Significance |
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This small building is an excellent example of the small apartment structures in the Eastlake neighborhood. Eastlake, despite its small size, has a wide variety of land uses, including industry, maritime industry, marinas, large institutions, a dense commercial strip and single family homes. Its key location between Lake Union and Capitol Hill has long made it an important north/south route connecting downtown with the University of Washington and other neighborhoods. Streetcars began running here as early as 1885, making it a logical location for apartment living. The numerous older apartment buildings, including a significant cluster of bungalow courts, are typically small in scale to fit in with the single family homes.
This small building, built in 1925, had five units in 1937, but has since been remodeled to accommodate six units, averaging 656 square feet. It looks essentially like a large single-family house in the Georgian style. It is highly intact.
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| Appearance |
| This small building essentially has the appearance of a large single family home, with a hip roof and a symmetrical façade. It is rectangular in plan, with two stories with an additional basement level open to the sloping backyard. It is of wood frame construction with red brick veneer cladding. The center entry has one step sheltered by a Colonial-style arched hood supported by scrolled brackets. The entry is flanked by two three-part windows each with a picture window and two six-over-one double hung windows. Above the entry are two pairs of six-over-one wooden windows, flanked by another pair, slightly larger. The side elevations have pairs of six-over-one windows. |
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