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A Seattle box with prominent second floor brackets and ornamental windows in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood. The Seattle box is a local variant of the Classic box or foursquare house . Seattle box houses are two or two-and-one-half story single family homes with four main rooms (generally a kitchen, dining room, living room, and entrance ...
Murray Morgan describes a box house as "a saloon with a theater attached," which "competed with establishments offering even rougher entertainment." [3] Many of Seattle's box houses in the wide-open "restricted district" below Yesler Way were located in basements and operated only in the dry season, because they flooded in the wet winter.
The site of the Hoge building, at 705 Second Avenue, was the location of the cabin of Carson Boren, reputedly the first white man's house in what was to become Seattle. [4] The cabin was later replaced by a row of 1 and 2 story shops facing Cherry Street which would all be destroyed by the Great Seattle fire. [5]
The Ballard-Howe House was commissioned by Martin D. Ballard (1832–1907), a Seattle businessman. The residence was designed by architects Emil De Neuf and August F. Heide, and built by general contractors Tomlinson and Windsor in 1900 and completed in 1901. The house is located on Queen Anne Hill with views of the city and Elliott Bay.
Steinbrueck went on to publish several other books promoting awareness of the city's unique character: Seattle Cityscape (1962; published to coincide with Century 21, the Seattle World's Fair), [5] Market Sketchbook (1968), and Seattle Cityscape #2 (1973). In the 1960s, Steinbrueck became active in historic preservation. Alongside others he ...
The Henry H. Dearborn House, also known as the Seattle Dearborn House is a single family residence in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.It was designed in 1904 by architect Henry Dozier, and building was completed in 1907 for Seattle real estate developer Henry H. Dearborn. [2]
According to similar findings from the Intercontinental Exchange, that sharp increase has put FHA delinquencies 2.5 percentage points above levels seen just before the COVID pandemic.. For ...
The Grand Opera House was constructed from 1898 to 1900. Nearby at Third Avenue and Cherry Street, John Considine, a veteran of box house days and a pioneer of vaudeville had his highly successful Seattle Theater. [4] Cort had the basement level of the Grand built in 1898 and opened it as a variety and beer hall known as the Palm Gardens.