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Common Name: |
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| Style: |
Tudor |
Neighborhood: |
Mount Baker |
| Built By: |
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Year Built: |
1931 |
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| Significance |
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Built in 1931 at a cost of $3000, this building was owned by Thomas Taylor. The lot was previously occupied by a one-story building constructed in 1913 by J. Johnson. Florence Taylor purchased the building in May of 1933. The Taylor’s also built and owned 3232 Thirty-Seventh Place South. By 1938, Byril K. Groseclose lived in the building. Lloyd R. Olson bought the building in May of 1941 and remained through 1943. Robert W. Condon lived in the building by 1951 through 1953. By 1955 through 1968, Nessin A. Eskenazi lived in the building. Then in September of 1970, Darlee Stockstill purchased the property for $20,000.
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 1931, this compact, Tudor-Revival-influenced, single-family cottage is oriented to Thirty-Seventh Avenue South on a flat site 5’ above street level. This 963 square foot, one-and-a-half story house with a full basement features a rectangular plan, measuring 33’ by 28’, with a small, centrally placed front stoop. A poured concrete foundation supports the wood frame, shingle-clad superstructure. Originally, stucco and half timbering highlighted the uppermost gable end above the windows. Asphalt composition roofing covers the gable front roof. Nearly flush gables and open eaves with exposed rafters define the roofline. Wood sash single-lite first story windows with smaller casement windows above provide day lighting. An exterior sidewall brick chimney services the building. Originally, the building immediately adjacent to this building was a mirror image with slight difference in half timber detailing in the gable end. |
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| Status: |
Yes - Inventory |
| Classication: |
Building |
District Status: |
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| Cladding(s): |
Shingle, Stucco |
Foundation(s): |
Concrete - Poured |
| Roof Type(s): |
Gable |
Roof Material(s): |
Asphalt/Composition |
| Building Type: |
Domestic - Single Family |
Plan: |
Rectangular |
| Structural System: |
Balloon Frame/Platform Frame |
No. of Stories: |
one & ½ |
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| Integrity |
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Changes to Plan: |
Intact |
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Changes to Original Cladding: |
Intact |
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Changes to Windows: |
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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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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