| Historic Name: |
Kingsbury Apartments |
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| Style: |
Tudor |
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Queen Anne |
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Year Built: |
1928 |
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| Significance |
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In the opinion of the survey, this property appears to meet the criteria of the National Register of Historic Places. |
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In the opinion of the survey, this property appears to meet the criteria of the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Ordinance. |
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In the opinion of the survey, this property is located in a potential historic districe (National and/or local). |
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Although this building looks much like a large single-family house and is located in an area of predominantly single-family homes, it was built as an apartment building in 1928. Many small apartment buildings appeared in such neighborhoods during the teens and 20s, and this is a small enclave with several such buildings. The architect was Albert A. Geiser, who designed several nearby houses and apartments. The owner and builder, H. Arthur Bakenhus, was a contractor who also built several other Queen Anne homes. The building was noted in the city-wide historic resources survey done in the 1970s.
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| Appearance |
| This small Tudor Revival apartment building has a gable and wing form, with a projecting gabled entry bay in the center of the façade and a second gable to the north. The primary cladding is red brick with stucco half-timbering in all the gable ends. The entry bay is ornate, with an arched opening to a small enclosed porch; above is a group of four casement windows with leaded diamond-pane glass. The oak door has a fanlight and sidelights. The gabled wing to the north has a pair of small eight-over-eight windows on the second floor and two fixed pane windows on the first floor. There is also a small dormer with one small window. Most windows elsewhere are 12-light leaded casements, either singly or in groups of three or four. Windows toward the rear are eight-over-one sash. The building sits high above the street, with a stairs curving through a rockery from the corner to the entry porch; the northwest corner has a fenced private patio. A garage with four doors is located beneath the building, accessed by a driveway on the south side. |
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