| Historic Name: |
Chase, Fred & Violet, House |
Common Name: |
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| Style: |
Tudor |
Neighborhood: |
Queen Anne |
| Built By: |
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Year Built: |
1925 |
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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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This Tudor Revival house is an interesting interpretation of the style, with a prominent stucco gabled wing attached to a simple side gable house. It is a good example of a "builder's Tudor," one of the most popular styles in Seattle in the 1920s. They have characteristics of the Tudor style such as steep gable roofs, leaded windows and half-timbering, but on a relatively modest scale. The house was built for Fred Chase, a salesman, and his wife Violet, who lived here from 1925 until the 1940s. The architect and builder are not known. Later owners included Richard & Cecelia Winsor (1950s), and Franklin McKrillis, the owner of a public relations firm (1970s-80s).
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| Appearance |
| This house has a gable-and-wing form with a typical very steep stucco gable on the front. The asymmetrical front gable, on the west side of the main façade, sweeps down over the arched entry. It has two groups of four 10-light leaded casement windows, one on each floor. The double garage doors are on the ground floor of the front wing. The lower set of windows is in a blind arch; both sets have a sill of red bricks, which are also used to outline the entry arch. The bulk of the house is a side gable volume toward the rear, with shingle cladding and leaded six--over-one and casement windows. |
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| Status: |
Yes - Inventory |
| Classication: |
Building |
District Status: |
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| Cladding(s): |
Stucco, Wood - Clapboard |
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 |
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Changes to Original Cladding: |
Intact |
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Changes to Windows: |
Intact |
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Changes to Plan: |
Intact |
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| Major Bibliographic References |
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City of Seattle DCLU Microfilm Records.
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King County Property Record Card (c. 1938-1972), Washington State Archives.
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Polk's Seattle Directories, 1890-1996.
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Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, ed. Shaping Seattle Architecture, A Historical Guide to the Architects. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994.
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