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46 Marks Residence |
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Arts & Crafts - Craftsman |
Neighborhood: |
Montlake |
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Year Built: |
1911 |
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| Significance |
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This residence is a good and intact example of the Craftsman style. Built in 1911, it is associated with the early era development in the Montlake neighborhood. It remains remarkably intact 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), 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 Pre
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| Appearance |
| This one-and-one-half story Craftsman-style house is rectangular in plan with shingle siding, a broad side-gabled roof and a front gabled roof dormer. The roofs have deep eaves, wide bargeboards, knee braces and half timbering in the side-gable ends. The facade is symmetrical with a full length covered porch, center wood door with a Craftsman-style window and flanking groups of three double-hung windows with Craftsman-style leaded uppers. A three-part window with a fixed center and flanking double-hung sides is located in the roof dormer. Double-hung and multi-pane casement windows are typical on the north and south facades and all windows have wide wood frames. The porch overhang is supported by large square wood posts with knee braces sitting atop shingle-clad piers. Two newer wrought-iron posts flank the wood entry steps and a wrought-iron balustrade extends to the porch ends on either side. The house is set well-back from the street on a terraced site with a rockery retaining wall, lawn and shrubs bisected by center concrete stairs and a walk. A concrete driveway on the north end leads to a detached garage in the rear. |
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