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Burwell House of Millionaire’s Row set to become Capitol Hill’s latest landmark

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The Burwell House

The Seattle Landmarks Board will consider the designation of a house on Capitol Hill’s Millionaire’s Row for official protection of its historic elements Wednesday.

The April 16th session follows the successful nomination of the Burwell House this winter. “It is challenging to find Arts and Crafts architecture in Seattle comparable” to the 1904-built 14th Ave E house, the nomination report on the property noted.

Situated on the southern end of the west side of Millionaire’s Row, the 6,570-square-foot house is within a few blocks of 11 properties designated for landmarks protections and the street as a whole won its listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

In addition to placing the old houses under a review process for any significant architectural changes to their protected elements, the programs also make the properties eligible for grants-in-aid and the historic rehabilitation tax credit—which allows owners and some lessees to take a 20% income tax credit on rehabilitation costs. Continue reading →

Burwell House latest to be considered for landmarks protections on Capitol Hill’s Millionaire’s Row

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Built for a Seattle Hardware Company founder, the Burwell House comes with a lot of hardware

A neighborhood of landmarks is poised to add another.

The Burwell House of Capitol Hill’s Millionaire’s Row is slated to be considered for protection of its historic features in a hearing scheduled for March.

Champions of historic preservation in Seattle might be falling over themselves to see the 1904-built 14th Ave E house designated. “It is challenging to find Arts and Crafts architecture in Seattle comparable to the Burwell House,” the report on the property compiled for the nomination hearing writes. Continue reading →

CHS Hilloween classic: Stephen King, Volunteer Park, and Rose Red — the tale of the Winchester House of Capitol Hill (that never ever existed)

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It never existed at 14th and E Valley, that’s for sure (Image: CHS)

 

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The old homes of Capitol Hill have more than a few scary stories rattling around inside. Some appear legendarily spooky. So it is not surprising to sometimes hear tales of one of the spookiest of all American families having been part of the history found in the houses surrounding the Hill’s Volunteer Park. Some tell tales of the legendary Winchester family’s home on the edges of Volunteer Park.

Like most good ghost tales, the legend of the Winchester House of Capitol Hill is mostly a mixture of confusion, fear and a good story. Continue reading →

As Seattle questions block by block preservation, Capitol Hill’s Millionaire’s Row already has its place on the National Register of Historic Places

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The Eckstein Estate of Millionaire’s Row

By Elizabeth Turnbull

It was a quiet victory. Last year, Capitol Hill’s Millionaire’s Row neighborhood, which spans from 14th Ave E to Volunteer Park, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places — a designation that has brought a greater sense of importance to the street.

It was also part of an increasingly questioned movement to win protections and historic designations for certain areas and blocks of Seattle, raising questions about equity in a city struggling with rising costs and increased displacement. Continue reading →

Latest proposed landmark on Capitol Hill’s Millionaire’s Row would honor legacy of Seattle pioneering businesswoman

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Caroline Horton

The grand American Foursquare on 14th Ave E near E Roy, thanks to the clearcutting of Capitol Hill, once had an even grander view. It has waited 116 years to be considered for Seattle landmark protections. Now remembered as the Caroline E. Horton House, one of the remaining unprotected chunks of Capitol Hill’s Millionaire’s Row will finally come before the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board later this month. (UPDATE: Corrected the location mistake. Sorry for the error — that’s what I get from reporting from memory and not looking at a map!)

The old home’s nomination from its most recent owners comes as the Millionaire’s Row neighborhood stretching along 14th Ave E from Volunteer Park won federal recognition — and the protections and tax implications it entails — on the National Register of Historic Places last year.

While many of the now multimillion dollar homes along the street have won landmark status for their immaculate condition as examples of classic Seattle turn of the century architecture, 627 14th Ave E’s story is about the woman who had it built. Continue reading →

Millionaire’s Row gets new crosswalks and a four-way stop to help connect Volunteer Park to the rest of Capitol Hill

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The view from the Shafer Baillie Mansion

One of the more needlessly dangerous crossings on Capitol Hill is being repaired this week, helping to connect Volunteer Park to its neighbors to the south.

Thanks to the folks at the Shafer Baillie Mansion bed and breakfast for sending over a note and the picture updating on the work Thursday to install new stop signs and crosswalks at the intersection of 14th and Aloha. Continue reading →

Agreement on Bordeaux House — the latest landmark on Capitol Hill’s Millionaire’s Row — comes before city council

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The Seattle City Council is poised to put a final stamp of approval on making a corner of Capitol Hill’s Millionaire’s Row an official city protected landmark.

The council’s Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee on Wednesday will take up legislation to place protective controls on the Thomas and Sarah Esther Bordeaux House at the corner of 14th Ave E and E Valley.

The restrictions on the historic property in the landmarks agreement “apply to the site, the building exterior, and a small portion of the interior, but do not apply to any in– kind maintenance or repairs of the designated features,” the council’s summary of the bill notes. Continue reading →

Really old Bordeaux House proposed as new landmark on Capitol Hill’s Millionaire’s Row — UPDATE

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“Figure 73: Thomas Bordeaux and his first wife, Mary Ritner Bordeaux, circa late 1880s-early 1890s. [Courtesy of Liz Arbaugh, director of the Mason County Historical Society]”

A 118-year-old Capitol Hill mansion built for the family of a Pacific Northwest timber baron is being considered for city landmark status as owners along the neighborhood’s Millionaire’s Row look to shore up historical protections for the area’s aging — and relatively enormous — homes in the face of ongoing demand for new housing.

The Thomas and Sarah Esther Bordeaux House at the corner of 14th Ave E and E Valley will come before the city’s landmarks board Wednesday afternoon.

City staff have recommended it move forward in the nomination process citing the structure’s embodiment of “distinctive visible characteristics of an architectural style, or period, or a method of construction”  — “a distinctive combination of the Queen Anne and Tudor Revival architectural styles,” the nomination report reads — and its presence as a monument to the work of architect William Kimball: Continue reading →

A demolition on Millionaire’s Row

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Face masks helped filter the smell of dust and mildew as a crew set about the unusual task Thursday of tearing down an original house of Seattle’s Millionaire’s Row, the 14th Ave E entryway to Volunteer Park.

Also unusual for a Capitol Hill demolition: The house will be replaced by another single-family home — not apartments, not townhomes. Continue reading →