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Item Title
Fort Lawton, Double Officers Quarters, Discovery Park, Seattle, King County, WA
LocationDiscovery Park,
Seattle, WA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS WA-150-L
Building/structure dates:
1904 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1940 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1908 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1937 subsequent work
Significance: Designed to house two lieutenants' families, this duplex is identical in plan to Officers Quarters #640, #676, and #678. Completed March 31, 1904, from QMGO Plan No. 120-A. Original cost: $13,500. Dimensions of main body: 56' x 30', rear kitchen wings: 14' x 18'. Two and one-half story and basement duplex of frame construction on sandstone and brick foundation. Lapped cedar siding. Asphalt shingles replaced original slate shingles on a cross-gable roof. A central chimney serves four interior fireplaces. Six-over-two, and two-over-two, double-hung sash in place, with "Palladian" and elliptical windows in attic. Full-width front porch with turned balusters and standing seam roof. Mirror image interior with side hall plans. Coal-fired boiler for steam heat removed in 1940. Electric lights replaced mineral oil lamps ca. 1908. Maple flooring installed on first floor in 1937. Back porches partially enclosed.
Subjects
Military Art & ScienceOfficers' QuartersWooden Buildings
Related Names
U.S. Department Of The Army
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. SOUTHEAST SIDE AND SOUTHWEST (PRINCIPAL) FRONT, TAKEN FROM SOUTHWEST
2. NORTHWEST AND NORTHEAST (REAR) SIDES, TAKEN FROM NORTHEAST
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