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Historic Name: Duhamel-Parsons House Common Name: Foley, Robert M. and Linda A., House
Style: Other, Queen Anne Neighborhood:
Built By: Year Built: 1903
 
Significance

This is a prominently situated example of Neoclassical architecture, a comparatively rare style in Seattle. The warp-around porch adds a slight Queen Anne character to the design. The structure’s design integrity has been somewhat compromised by alterations to the siding, and by additional less significant modifications.







This is one of approximately 2,200 houses that are still extant out of more than 5,000 that were built by the end of 1906 in Seattle’s Central Area, Eastlake, First Hill, Leschi, Madison Park, Madrona, and North Capitol Hill neighborhoods.







A complete permit history and record of ownership and occupation have not yet been prepared for this property.







Bibliography







King County Property Record Card (c. 1938-1972) Washington State Archives







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Roanoke Park Historic District documentation update (prepared by Erin O’Connor, Lee O'Connor, Cheryl Thomas on the NR Form, 6/17/2009; data entry by ICF, January 2020):

The Roanoke Park Historic District is eligible for listing on the National Register under Criterion "A" for its direct association with events that made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of local and national history. The district is also significant under Criterion "C" for its collection of early 20th century residential architecture designed by many notable Seattle architects. The period of significance for the Roanoke Park Historic District begins in 1899, the earliest construction date, and ends in 1939, the date the neighborhood was built out. Many residents in the district were directly involved in the local and sometimes national historic context, some as much creating the history as expressing or representing it. The politicians, jurists, medical people, and earliest historians of Seattle who lived in the district were powerful actors, and many local themes of the day were played out with varying degrees of self-consciousness by other residents. The work and careers of the district's residents epitomize patterns and preoccupations in the settlement of the American west coast maritime cities.

The events of that pre-war period of political, economic, and cultural activity coincide with the period of the district's architectural significance, in which many of its architects trained on the east coast of the United States, the Midwest, England, and Europe designed the district's residences at the same time that they were designing the city of Seattle's significant buildings during and even after the only partial realization of the City Beautiful movement's ideals in the cities of the United States. The rise of world fairs and expositions and the realization of City Beautiful ideals in the layouts and buildings of these "cities within cities"1 is directly involved as well on the Roanoke Park plateau, whose major period of development was occasioned in large part by its overlooking the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition grounds. And the settlement of residential suburbs-in Seattle's case, "streetcar suburbs" ever farther outside the city center-is a pattern of development to be seen in the environment of most cities in the United States and in Seattle, particularly in the Roanoke Park Historic District.

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Appearance

This is a two-and-a-half story, aluminum siding clad wood frame single-family residence on a concrete and brick foundation, over a three-quarter basement.







The west façade of this house is dominated by a full height porch supported by classical fluted columns with Corinthian capitals and surmounted by a low balustrade, all defining features of the Neoclassical style. The symmetrically balanced windows on the two primary elevations, the center door at the entry façade, the moderate overhang of the boxed eaves, the modillions and dentils at the base of the eaves, and the wide, built up frieze are all typical details of Neoclassical houses. The wrap-around one story porch, supported by Ionic columns, surmounted by its own low balustrade, and passing through the full height porch at the front of the house, is an elaboration of an uncommon Neoclassical extension that gives the house a slightly Queen Anne flavor, as does the somewhat less symmetrically organized back end of the house.







A portion of the wrap-around porch at the southeast quadrant appears to have been enclosed to form a sunroom, though this was likely done at a very early date and may be original. The aluminum siding was added in the 1940s or 1950s. At least one of the chimneys appears to have modified or extended. The balustrades may have been rebuilt using balusters of reduced section.







The house is located on the east side of Harvard Avenue, which extends along what is now the east margin of Interstate 5. Its corner location gives it some local prominence and its distinctive character causes it to stand out among the houses visible to travelers on the freeway.







The house was built in 1903 (King County Property Record Card; King County GIS Center Property Report, accessed March 6, 2008). The King County Property Record Card indicates that the house was remodeled in 1913. The original siding was replaced or covered at some point between 1937 and 1959.




 

Roanoke Park Historic District documentation update (prepared by Erin O’Connor, Lee O'Connor, Cheryl Thomas on the NR Form, 6/17/2009; data entry by ICF, January 2020):

 

A two and a half-story Neoclassical Revival frame clapboard house. The roof was originally shingle and is now composition. Modillions outline the house roofline and the roof of the front porch. A square porch is supported by four Corinthian columns that rise to the second story, as do pilasters on either side of the centered front door. A balcony on the square porch roof is reached from a door in the centered front gabled dormer. Gabled dormers are on the sides as well. The original cut glass windows are intact or have been restored. A terrazzo-floored conservatory takes up more than half the width of the house on the east side. The kitchen and the attic were remodeled in 1965.

 

 

Building Permit No. 88130, dated 3-19-1910, authorized Stell & Co. to build a porch 8 feet by 60 feet on three sides of the house for owner Ella R. Parsons. A finely turned balustrade extends around the wraparound first-story porch. A wraparound walkway that roofs the first-story porch extends around the second story and is supported by one-story Ionic pillars that also serve as posts for the first-story porch balustrade. The rail of the second-story walkway features plainer square posts as does the rail around the balcony.



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Status: Yes - Hold
Classication: Building District Status:
Cladding(s): Metal - Aluminum Siding, Wood Foundation(s): Brick, Concrete - Poured
Roof Type(s): Flat, Gable, Hip Roof Material(s): Asphalt/Composition-Shingle
Building Type: Domestic - Single Family Plan: Irregular
Structural System: Balloon Frame/Platform Frame No. of Stories: two & ½
Unit Theme(s): Architecture/Landscape Architecture, Commerce, Politics/Government/Law
Integrity
Changes to Windows: Intact
Changes to Plan: Moderate
Changes to Original Cladding: Extensive
Changes to Interior: Unknown
Major Bibliographic References

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