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Historic Seattle Historic seattle 2 0 1 1 p r o g r a m s WHat’s inside: Welcome to seattle’s premier educational program for lovers learning 3 from historic of buildings and Heritage... sites Each year, over 3,000 Pacific Northwest residents enjoy preserving our popular lectures, workshops, private home and out-of-town 4 your old house tours, Bungalow Fair, and special events that bring you closer to open to understanding and appreciating the rich and varied built view tours 5 environment that we seek to preserve and protect with your help! design arts 6 lecture series 2011 programs at a glance January Open to View preserving 24 Learning From Historic Sites 12 Daughters of the American Revolution, Meeker Mansion, Puyallup utility 8 Rainier Chapter House 18 Learning from Historic Sites February Public History Workshop at Washington Hall out-of-town- 12 Preserving Utility 9 tours Hiking Washington’s History July 14 Preserving Utility March Fremont Bridge bungalow 10 Preserving Utility fair and Museum of Communications 25 Learning from Historic Sites 10 Duwamish Longhouse arts & crafts lectures 18 Reception for Design Arts Lecture Series Art Deco to Modernism August 19 Design Arts Lecture Series: 2 Local Tour third Art Deco to Modernism First Hill Neighborhood 12 annual 20 Design Arts Lecture Series preservation Art Deco to Modernism September awards Guided and Self-Guided Tours 11 Open to View ceremony Parker-Fersen House, North Capitol Hill April Cover l to r, top to bottom: 7 Preserving Your Old House 24-25 Bungalow Fair and Arts & Crafts Lectures Bellingham, Colborne block Building Renovation Fair Open House 24 Arts & Crafts Lecture print (Whatcom Museum); at Rejuvenation The Victorian Roots of the Arts & Crafts Movement 2010 Virginia V Cruise 9 Preserving Your Old House 24 Arts & Crafts Lecture (Doug Johnson); Keramic Building Renovation Fair Archibald Knox: In the Ministry of the Beautiful Studio Masthead (Dodge/ 25 Arts & Crafts Lecture Kreisman Collection); Parker- 25 Learning From Historic Sites Five Outrageous Women of the Arts & Crafts Fersen House, postcard (Woo Christ Our Hope Catholic Church/ Movement Collection); Rosalie King and Judy Donnelly accepting Josephinum Apartments 2010 Preservation Award October from Kathleen Brooker and May 11 Local Tour Rick Sever (Marissa Natkin); 7 Out-of-Town Tour First Hill Neighborhood Rose-motif designs, Keramic Bellingham Studio, 1916 (Dodge/Kreisman 24 Learning from Historic Sites Collection); Northern Life 10 Third Annual Preservation Awards Ceremony The Sanctuary at Admiral Tower rendering (Dodge/ Talaris Conference Center Kreisman Collection); Dearborn 26-30 Out-of-Town Tour House (Marissa Natkin); 22 Preserving Utility Historic St. Paul and Minneapolis Duwamish Longhouse View from Below (Duwamish Tribe); Design for November METRO International June 5 Learning from Historic Sites District Station (TRA); 7 Local Tour Landmarks Nomination Workshop Gardens, Talaris Conference First Hill Neighborhood Center (Talaris Conference Center) 2 learning from historic sites daugHters of tHe clad lobby into a handsome and welcoming downtown Historic Seattle invites neighborhood worship space. Please join Father Paul its members and the public merican evolution a r , Magnano and Stephen Lee, architect for the renovation, as to learn about heritage rainier cHapter House they describe the purpose and the process of their work. programs and projects of When: Monday, January 24, 5:30 – 7 pm interest taking place in our Where: 800 E. Roy Street duWamisH longHouse community and through the Speaker: Peter Steinbrueck, AIA Registration: Free/donation When: Monday, July 25, 5:30 – 7 pm auspices of Historic Seattle. Where: 4705 W. Marginal Way S.W. These programs are held at Please join us as we welcome in our 37th year of education, Registration: Free/donation sites of historic, cultural, advocacy, and preservation real estate development in the and architectural interest. lovely surroundings of the Rainier Chapter House, reputed The Duwamish Longhouse is a traditional cedar post and A short quarterly business to be the only replica of George Washington’s Mount Vernon beam structure designed in the Puget Salish Longhouse style meeting for members when it was built in 1924. Architect Daniel Huntington as collaboration between the Duwamish Tribe and project precedes the program. reproduced the exterior detailing of Mount Vernon, although architect Byron Barnes, a member of the Montana-based the Rainier Chapter House lacks Mount Vernon’s wing Blackfeet Tribe. The Longhouse – as in ancient times – is 12 Open to View the site where tribal business is conducted and cultural and Meeker Mansion, Puyallup dependencies and rear facade. The Chapter opted to make the building available for rental to private parties in order to educational events are held. In addition, the Duwamish Tribe 18 Learning from Historic Sites pay off the bonds and to maintain the building. This was a wants to share its Longhouse with the public to reinforce its Public History Workshop at Washington Hall departure from the usual practice of building a club house cultural and social traditions. The Duwamish Longhouse is an important regional resource for tribal members, researchers, July for the exclusive use of its own members. Since the building teachers, and students interested in Duwamish history and 14 Preserving Utility was intended for social functions, the interior departs from Fremont Bridge the home of George Washington with an auditorium upstairs culture. Cecile Hansen, Tribal Chairwoman of the Duwamish and a memorial room and dining room downstairs, as well as Tribe, will share with you the challenges and rewards of 25 Learning from Historic Sites developing the Longhouse as a focal point of the culture and Duwamish Longhouse kitchen and service spaces. Longtime preservation supporter Peter Steinbrueck, traditions of Seattle’s first people– the Duwamish Tribe. August AIA, of Steinbrueck Urban Strategies, will share his 2 Local Tour First Hill Neighborhood experience and insights gathered during his Loeb Fellowship independent study at Harvard University last year. He sanctuary at admiral (former September studied politics, planning, and best practices of urban Open to View sixtH cHurcH of cHrist, scientist) 11 sustainability in the United States. Parker-Fersen House, North Capitol Hill When: Monday, October 24, 5:30 – 7 pm On-street parking is very limited. Please consider carpooling or riding the bus. Where: 2656 42nd Avenue S.W. 24-25 Bungalow Fair and Arts & Crafts Lectures Registration: Free/donation 24 Arts & Crafts Lecture cHrist our Hope The Victorian Roots of the Arts & Crafts Movement Gilbert C. Field designed the Sixth Christian Science 24 Arts & Crafts Lecture catHolic cHurcH church in 1929. It represented a progressive transition from Archibald Knox: In the Ministry of the Beautiful 25 Arts & Crafts Lecture (tHe JosepHinum apartments) the more commonly used Classical Beaux Arts designs of Five Outrageous Women of the Arts & Crafts other churches to the simpler, more modernistic building When: Monday, April 25, 5:30 – 7 pm Movement forms popularized in metropolitan cities and associated Where: 1902 Second Avenue with Art Deco. The building is a largely unadorned brick October Registration: Free/donation 11 Local Tour Seattle’s leading hotel during the early 20th century was faced block defined by window and door bays separated First Hill Neighborhood the New Washington, completed in 1908 to replace its by pilasters that rise to the parapet. When the dwindling namesake, razed during the city’s regrading of Denny Hill. church membership merged with another nearby church 24 Learning from Historic Sites The Sanctuary at Admiral In its designs, the St. Louis firm of Eames & Young utilized and closed its doors in 2003, Dahli Bennett purchased and Classical Revival elements popular in that period in a stately renovated the space for her family’s home. More recently, it 26-30 Out-of-Town Tour two-story balconied lobby and the adjacent dining room. has been transformed into a charming event center complete Top to bottom: Historic St. Paul and Minneapolis In its more recent role as apartments, the building lost its with professional kitchen, raised stage, dance floor, and a Daughters of the American bridal suite. It was designated a City of Seattle Landmark Revolution Rainier Chapter House November glamour. However, the completion of a restoration and (Lawrence Kreisman); Christ Our 5 Learning from Historic Sites renovation project by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese in 2009. Learn about this fascinating adaptive reuse project Hope Catholic Church (Stephen Lee); Landmarks Nomination Workshop has turned the original dining room adjoining the marble- from the owner. Duwamish Longhouse (Tom Speer) Sanctuary at Admiral (Dahli Bennett) 3 learning from historic sites preserving your old house Historic Seattle offers landmarks nomination Historic seattle building a yearly Landmarks orksHop enovation air Workshop to provide the W r f tools necessary to prepare When: Saturday, November 5, 8:30 am – 1 pm When: Saturday, April 9, 10 am – 4 pm Where: Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, Where: Washington Hall, 153 14th Avenue nominations to ensure that 4649 Sunnyside Avenue N. Registration: Free/donation members, $5 general public buildings of importance Registration: $15 members; $20 general public; This is the first of what is hoped will be an annual Fair. remain in our community. $10 students. Fee includes refreshments and a CD of resource materials
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