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Common Name: |
01 Rosen Residence |
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Arts & Crafts - Craftsman |
Neighborhood: |
Montlake |
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Year Built: |
1919 |
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| Significance |
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This Craftsman-style residence, located in the Montlake Park Add, has been altered with a cross-gable second story addition that is held back from the primary façade and partial infill of its original hip-roofed projecting porch/port cochere. Built in 1919, this house is associated with late 19-teens/early 1920s-era the development in the Montlake area and, despite its alterations, remains 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), and St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church (1962).
Major Bibliographic References:
King County Tax Assessor Records, 1937-2014.
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 front-gable house with clapboard siding was originally one-and-a-half stories. A second-story cross-gable addition to the rear was built sometime before 1978. The house sits on a flat lot with a front yard landscaped with shrubs and trees, a wide poured concrete driveway and parking pad, and grass side yard. The entry is located on the southeast corner, slightly recessed below a hip-roofed projecting porch/port cochere with exposed rafter ends and rounded rafter tails. The covered porch was originally open and supported by square wood columns. It has been partially enclosed and the support columns have been replaced with round metal tube columns. The front façade features two Craftsman-style picture window groupings with six-over-one fixed centers flanked by six-over-one wood casements and wide wood frames. There is a gabled projecting bay on the west façade with wood frame French doors leading to a raised wood porch. A group of four vinyl casements and a small octagonal fixed window are located in the gable end. The cross-gabled second story was added sometime before 1978. |
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