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01 Wener Residence |
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Arts & Crafts - Craftsman |
Neighborhood: |
Montlake |
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Year Built: |
1915 |
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| Significance |
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Built in 1915, this residence, located in the Montlake Park Addition, can best be described as a Craftsman-style house with Tudor detailing. It is associated with 19-teens and 1920s-era the development in the Montlake area. It is largely intact with the exception of alterations to the roof dormer, which originally featured a modest shed roof and trellis element in front and now displays a prominent gable roof with deep eaves and knee braces. Despite these alterations this residence retains sufficient character to be 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 one-and-a-half story side-gabled residence is clad in brick with wood shingles in the prominent center front-gabled roof dormer, which displays a three-part wood window with a fixed center and flanking three-over-one sashes. An arched opening with a decorative brick surround reveals a shallow raised recessed porch with a solid brick balustrade and oak door with sidelights at the east end of the front facade. To the west of the entry are a pair of tall 12 pane fixed divided light windows with shutters. A shallow brick-clad box bay projects from the east facade. A tall brick chimney pierces the eaves on the west facade and behind the chimney, a one-story concrete single car garage with a wrought iron ballistrade above is attached to the residence. A poured concrete retaining wall separates the densely planted area containing tall, facade obscuring shrubs in front of the house from the driveway to the west. |
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