| Historic Name: |
Larsen, Lars & Marie, House |
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| Style: |
Arts & Crafts - Craftsman |
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Queen Anne |
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Year Built: |
1914 |
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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 is a good example of a Craftsman house, with a low-pitched gable roof, prominent brackets and cladding of shingles and clapboard. Its veranda-like porch, running along the side of the house, is somewhat unusual for this style. It was owned from the 1920s until the 1960s by Lars Larsen, a blacksmith, and his wife, Marie. In the 1970s Frederick Nelsen, of the nearby Nelsen’s Grocery, and his wife, Elva, lived here.
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| Appearance |
| This two-story house has a low-pitched front gable roof with deep eaves and prominent knee brackets. Cladding is clapboard on the first floor with alternating wide and narrow bands of shingles above; wider clapboard is below the water table. The most distinctive feature is the veranda, which extends across the south side of the main façade and along half of the west side. It has square posts with simple capitals and balusters. A shed dormer on the west shelters a projecting second-story bay. The first story has a three-part window, with a large center section flanked by two narrow four-over-one sections (with vertical mullions). Above this is a similar grouping, with a small porch with plain balusters and brackets, and French doors replacing the center window. Other windows also have the vertical mullions, usually in an eight-over-one configuration; all have wide wood surrounds. There is a small horizontal window in the gable end. |
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