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Common Name: |
Hubbell Residence |
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Arts & Crafts - Craftsman |
Neighborhood: |
Montlake |
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Year Built: |
1923 |
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| Significance |
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This 1-1/2 story bungalow is a good and generally intact example of the Craftsman style. Built in 1923, it is associated with 1920s-era development in the Montlake area. Despite minor alterations to the façade, including new window sash and compatible dormer additions, it retains many original features and its original character and is a contributing resource to the Montlake NRHP Historic District.
Montlake is generally described as extending from the Washington Park Arboretum west to Portage Bay/15th Avenue E., and from the Montlake Cut on the north to Interlaken Park. The area is a significant and cohesive collection of residential architecture typical of early 20th century Seattle and is eligible as a NRHP historic district under Criterion C. Construction occurred primarily between 1910 and 1940, with a variety of Craftsman and revival styles ranging from modest cottages and builder's houses to high-style architect-designed residences, impressive institutional buildings, and notable parks and natural features. There are few intrusions of newer buildings. In the early 1960s, construction of SR 520 and the unfinished R.H. Thomson Expressway bisected Montlake, but the neighborhood retains its basic integrity as a pre-World War II Seattle neighborhood.
Montlake was incorporated into the City of Seattle in 1891. Although the first plats (Union City 1st and 2nd additions) were filed by Harvey Pike in 1869-1871, development did not really begin until plats were filed by John Boyer (Interlaken, 1905) and H. S. Turner (1907). Montlake Park (north of SR 520) was platted in 1909 by the developers James Corner and Calvin and William Hagan. With the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition came a streetcar line on 24th Avenue E. and an impetus for development. In 1916, the Lake Washington Ship Canal was completed and the Montlake Bridge linked the neighborhood to the university area in 1925. A small commercial district grew along the car line.
The 1903 Olmsted Parks and Boulevards Plan of 1903 surrounded Montlake with parks. Montlake Boulevard (then call University Boulevard) connected Lake Washington Boulevard to the A-Y-P grounds. Washington Park, the eastern boundary, was acquired by the City in 1900 and developed as an arboretum in 1936-41. At the southern edge is steep, forested Interlaken Park and boulevard.
By 1915, the neighborhood had developed enough to require a temporary school building; the permanent structure opened in 1924.Soon afterwards came a playfield and shelter house (1933-36) and a library (1944, replaced 2006). Other noteworthy structures include the Seattle Yacht Club (1920), the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Center (1931), the Museum of History and Industry (1952) and St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church (1962).
Major Bibliographic References:
Becker, Paula. Seattle Neighborhoods: Montlake--Thumbnail History. HistoryLink File # 10170, accessed 12/2/2013.
Gould, James W. Montlake History. http://www.scn.org/neighbors/montlake/mcc_history.Jim_Gould.html
Smith, Eugene. Montlake: An Urban Eden, A History of the Montlake Community in Seattle. La Grande OR: Oak Street Press, 2004.
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| Appearance |
| This 1-1/2 story Craftsman bungalow is slightly irregular in plan with wood clapboard cladding and a side-gable roof; two gabled dormers are on the front, north elevation. Concrete stairs lead to the projecting gabled wood porch with brick piers supporting square wood posts. The original carved oak door has a grilled security door; two vertical rectangular single light wood sash windows flank the entry. All roof and projection eaves have knee brackets and bargeboards and gables have shingle cladding. A large picture window is to the left of the porch and below it is a basement garage with original wood hinged doors with 8 lights in the upper third of each door. The shallow gabled box bay on the east elevation has a group of 4 wood sash windows with patterned divided lights in the upper sash. Other windows on the side elevations are similar. A single-story sunroom addition is on the southeast corner of the house; the dormers are also later additions, though they are compatible in character. A brick chimney with a stepped pot pierces the eaves on the east elevation. The mid-block lot sits above the street with groundcovers on the front slope and large shrubs and a deciduous tree on the narrow terrace above; a wood fence encloses the rest of the yard. |
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