Seattle Historical Sites

Summary for 1118 Federal AVE / Parcel ID 6762700600 / Inv #

Historic Name: Bogle, Lawrence, Residence Common Name: Style: Colonial - Colonial Revival Neighborhood: Capitol Hill Built By: Year Built: 1913   Significance In the opinion of the survey, this property appears to meet the criteria of the National Register of Historic Places. In the opinion of the survey, this property appears to meet the criteria of the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Ordinance. Carl Gould designed this house in for Lawrence Bogle in 1913. Two families have owned it for most of its history. James Farrell, president of an import/export company, and his wife Helen, lived here from 1934 until 1958, when it was purchased by Joseph P. Danz, an insurance broker, and his wife Elizabeth. The Danz family still owns it. Carl Gould (1873-1939) was one of Seattle’s most prominent architects, and one with a significant impact on Capitol Hill. Gould was born in New York and graduated from Harvard and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He immediately aligned with some of the most celebrated people in the profession, interning with McKim, Mead & White and working on Daniel Burnham’s plan for San Francisco. He moved to Seattle in 1908 and, as one of the best educated architects in the relatively young city, associated with Daniel Huntington in 1909. Together they designed numerous residences, apartments and mixed use buildings, and Gould independently designed additional houses and commercial buildings. In 1914 he became associated with Charles Bebb, a well-established local architect, and over the next twenty years the firm designed nearly three hundred projects including residences, schools, hospitals and commercial buildings. Perhaps their best known work is the campus plan for the University Washington (1915) and the design of eighteen campus buildings between 1915 and 1938, including Suzzallo Library, in the Collegiate Gothic style. In 1914 Gould founded the Department of Architecture and served as its head until 1926. In the late 1920s, Gould’s designs turned toward the Modern and Art Deco, and he produced two of his most important works, the U. S. Marine Hospital (now Amazon.com, 1930-32) and the Seattle Art Museum (now the Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1931-33). This stretch of Federal Avenue is a tree-lined avenue with a fine collection of large homes, many designed by prominent architects for some of Seattle’s leading families. The street was well located for development, as it is only one block from the Broadway/10th Avenue streetcar line and abuts the open spaces of Volunteer Park and Lake View Cemetery to the east. Although the southern two blocks were platted s part of the 1883 Phinney’s Addition, little development occurred until the first decade of the 20th century, about the time that Volunteer Park was redesigned by the Olmsted Brothers. The landscape architecture firm continually encouraged the city to purchase the property on the west side of the park, so that it would extend all the way to the street; obviously, this was never done, as this house was built at about that time.   Appearance This one-and ½ story, shingle-clad Colonial Revival house has a gable front and wing form, with steep two-story gable on the south side of the main façade. The entry, just north of the gabled wing, has an elaborate surround, with a split pediment above an entablature and pilasters. The gable end has a Palladian window with eight-light casement windows in the center. Below on the first floor is a bank of four twelve-light windows, with a pair of similar windows on the north end of the facade and around the corner on the north elevation. The second story has a small shed dormer with two four-light windows above the entry and larger shed dormers on the north and south elevations. The house is set above the street, with a concrete retaining wall, a lawn and shrubs around the house

Detail for 1118 Federal AVE / Parcel ID 6762700600 / Inv #

Status: Yes - Inventory Classication: Building District Status: Cladding(s): Shingle Foundation(s): Concrete - Poured Roof Type(s): Gable Roof Material(s): Asphalt/Composition-Shingle Building Type: Domestic - Single Family Plan: Rectangular Structural System: Balloon Frame/Platform Frame No. of Stories: two Unit Theme(s): Architecture/Landscape Architecture Integrity Changes to Plan: Intact Changes to Windows: Intact Changes to Original Cladding: Intact Major Bibliographic References Booth, T. William and William H. Wilson. Carl F. Gould, A Life in Architecture and The Arts. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects. Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. King County Tax Assessor Records, ca. 1932-1972. City of Seattle, Department of Planning and Development, Microfilm Records.

Photo collection for 1118 Federal AVE / Parcel ID 6762700600 / Inv #

Photo taken Jan 26, 2006