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Historic Name: Common Name: 05 Wetter Residence
Style: Tudor Neighborhood: Montlake
Built By: Year Built: 1930
 
Significance
This residence, located in the Montlake Park Addition, is a good and intact example of the Tudor style.  Built in 1930, it is associated with 1930s era development in the Montlake area.  It 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), 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.
 
Appearance
This one-and-one-half story brick clad residence features a steeply pitched side-gabled roof with eave returns and a wide shed-roofed dormer clad in wood shingles. The center entry has a six-panel door with leaded 12-part sidelights. It is sheltered by a flat, projecting porch roof with a Juliette balcony with a square wood balustrade above supported by curved wall braces on either side. Paired eight-over-one double-hung wood frame windows with brick sills and lintels flank the entry. Above the entry, in the dormer, is a pair of six-part leaded casement windows flanked by single six-over-one leaded double-hung windows with shutters. A one-story hip-roofed projecting bay is located on the east facade, and a tall brick chimney pierces the eaves on the west facade.  Divided single- and double-hung wood windows are typical on the non-primary facades.  Concrete steps and a walkway in the center of the lot lead to a raised concrete porch with square brick bollards, concrete lintels, and a wrought iron railing. A low brick wall with square bollards at the ends runs parallel with the sidewalk to the east of the center walk.  This half of the lot is planted with lawn and mature foundation shrubs. A concrete retaining wall obscured by dense plantings runs along the west side of the entry stairs and walks, and divides the higher part of the site from the lower, sloping concrete driveway leading to the attached garage.  The garage door is paneled with two rows of glazed uppers.

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Status:
Classication: Building District Status:
Cladding(s): Brick, Shingle - Combed Foundation(s): Concrete - Poured
Roof Type(s): Gable Roof Material(s): Asphalt/Composition
Building Type: Domestic - Single Family Plan: Rectangular
Structural System: Balloon Frame/Platform Frame No. of Stories: one & ½
Unit Theme(s): Architecture/Landscape Architecture
Integrity
Changes to Plan: Intact
Changes to Interior: Unknown
Changes to Original Cladding: Intact
Changes to Windows: Intact
Major Bibliographic References
King County Assessor Property Characteristics Report, database at http://www5.metrokc.gov/ --parcel locator

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Photo taken Dec 31, 2014

Photo taken Jan 01, 1900
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