Seattle Historical Sites

Summary for 733 12th AVE / Parcel ID 1336800375 / Inv #

Historic Name: unknown Common Name: Style: American Foursquare Neighborhood: Capitol Hill Built By: Year Built: 1907   Significance This example of the Foursquare has a full-width porch and a single projecting corner bay window on the second story.ory. It also has extensive leaded glass. This part of Capitol Hill has the city’s greatest concentration of American Foursquare houses—often called the Classic Box or Seattle Box, because of its local popularity. They were built primarily between 1905 and 1910. Most of these houses were not designed by an architect, but were built by local builders from patterns purchased from magazines. Most have a wide front porch with heavy posts or columns and a hip roof, often with dormers. There are typically eight main rooms on two floors--living room, hall, dining room and kitchen downstairs and four bedrooms upstairs. Two reasons for their popularity were that they provided a large amount of space for reasonable cost, and that they could be personalized depending on an owners taste and budget. This neighborhood has numerous variations, from simple unornamented versions to elaborately detailed ones with multiple columns, beveled leaded glass windows and exotic accent windows.   Appearance

Detail for 733 12th AVE / Parcel ID 1336800375 / Inv #

Status: Yes - Hold Classication: Building District Status: Cladding(s): Shingle Foundation(s): Concrete - Poured Roof Type(s): Hip Roof Material(s): Asphalt/Composition Building Type: Domestic - Secondary structure Plan: Rectangular Structural System: Balloon Frame/Platform Frame No. of Stories: two Unit Theme(s): Architecture/Landscape Architecture Integrity Changes to Original Cladding: Intact Changes to Windows: Intact Changes to Plan: Intact Major Bibliographic References King County Tax Assessor Records, ca. 1932-1972.

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