| Historic Name: |
Barnhart Residence |
Common Name: |
01 2810 LLC Residence |
| Style: |
Arts & Crafts - Craftsman |
Neighborhood: |
Montlake |
| Built By: |
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Year Built: |
1915 |
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| Significance |
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This residence, located in the Montlake Park Addition, is a good and intact example of the Craftsman style. Built in 1915, it is associated with early development in the Montlake neighborhood. It is remarkably intact and is a contributing resource in the Montlake NRHP Historic District. The earliest known owners of this house, in 1928, were Wilmer K. & Evelyn Barnhart of the Banrhart Co Inc. The home was owned by William R. Sawhill in 1938 through at least the 1950s. He was a pastor at First United Presbyterian Church.
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 grand one-and-one-half story side-gabled Craftsman-style house faces the park across the street. It features a prominent, projecting front facing gable, deep eaves, wide notched barge boards and exposed rafters with rounded ends. It is clad in clapboard siding with stucco and half timbering in the gable ends. The site is flat, with formal landscaping featuring low shrubs and small trees that flank wide, newer poured concrete entry steps with sloping concrete sidewalls and battered bollards at the sidewalk. A deeply recessed porch has an arched opening and the overhang is supported by paired square columns atop battered piers at the corners. The porch balustrade is a solid clapboard sided wall. To the south of the entry door is a three-part wood frame picture window with a six-over-one center and flanking three-over-one sidelights. To the north of the entry is a pair of five-over-one wood frame windows. A grouping of three three-over-one wood windows are located in the gable end and gable roof dormer to the north features a pair of three-over-one wood windows. A brick chimney pierces the eaves on the south facade. Wood frame windows with divided uppers and wide frames are typical. There is a detached garage to the rear, accessed through the alley. The garage detailing matches the house. |
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