Historic seattle 2 0 1 2 p r o g r a m s WHat’s inside: elcome to eattle s premier educational program for learning W s ’ 3 from historic lovers of buildings and Heritage. sites open to Each year, Pacific Northwest residents enjoy our popular lectures, 4 view tour fairs, private home and out-of-town tours, and special events that foster an understanding and appreciation of the rich and varied built preserving 4 your old environment that we seek to preserve and protect with your help! house local tours 5 2012 programs at a glance January June out-of-town 23 Learning from Historic Sites 7 Preserving Utility Earthwise Salvage 5 tour Neptune Theatre 28 Special Event Design Arts Washington Hall Festive Partners’ Night Welcome to the Future design arts 5 Seattle Social and Cultural Context in ‘62 6 February 12 Northwest Architects of the Seattle World’s Fair 9 Preserving Utility 19 Modern Building Technology National Archives and Record Administration preserving (NARA) July utility 19 Local Tour 10 Preserving Utility First Hill Neighborhood 25 Interior Storm Windows Pioneer Building 21 Learning from Historic Sites March Tukwila Historical Society special Design Arts 11 events Arts & Crafts Ceramics August 27 Rookwood Arts & Crafts Tiles: 11 Open to View From Cincinnati to Seattle Hofius Residence 28 An Appreciation for California Ceramic Tile Heritage 16 Local Tour First Hill Neighborhood April 14 Preserving Your Old House September Building Renovation Fair 15 Design Arts Cover l to r, top to bottom: Stained Glass in Seattle Justinian and Theodora, Design Arts Dard Hunter Design 1906 Arts & Crafts Graphic Design 28-30 Out-of-Town Tour (Pomegranate Communications); 18 Dard Hunter: The Graphic Works Victoria, BC Hofius Residence, First Hill (Lawrence Kreisman); Emily 20 Learning from Historic Sites October Carr Residence, Victoria, Woman’s Century Club 15 Learning from Historic Sites BC (Wayne Dodge); Century Panama Hotel 21 birdseye postcard May (Eugenia Woo Collection); 15 Special Event November Panama Hotel sign Fourth Annual Preservation Awards Ceremony 16 Special Event (Lawrence Kreisman); Malibu Members Preview: MOHAI at South Lake Union tile detail, Piedmont 17 Local Tour Hotel, First Hill (Lawrence First Hill Neighborhood Kreisman); Woman’s Century Club, Capitol Hill (Lawrence Kreisman); Rendering of MOHAI on S. Lake Union (MOHAI) 2 learning from historic sites annual meeting at tHe programs designed to connect and inspire women in the Four times a year, 21st century. Come learn about the club’s history and how neptune tHeatre Historic Seattle invites its you can participate in its current revitalization. For more members and the public When: Monday, January 23, 5:30 – 7:30 pm information visit www.womanscenturyclub.org. Where: 1303 NE 45th Street, University District to learn about heritage On-street metered parking. Registration: Free/donation; light refreshments, no-host bar programs and projects of Co-sponsored by Seattle Theatre Group (STG) interest taking place in our Special Performance by Book-It Repertory Theatre tukWila Historical and community and through Historic Seattle welcomes in its 38th year of education, cultural center the auspices of Historic advocacy, and preservation real estate development in one of When: Saturday, July 21, 10 – 11:30 am Seattle. These free events Seattle’s few surviving neighborhood movie theatres, the 1921 Where: 14475 59th Avenue S., Tukwila are held at sites of historic, Neptune, now leased by the Seattle Theatre Group (operating Registration: Free/donation cultural, and architectural interest. A short quarterly the Paramount and Moore theatres) to provide a gathering While most Seattleites associate Tukwila with the next to business meeting for space for live music and community events. David Allen, last stop on Light Rail to the airport or Southcenter Mall members precedes the June Chief Operating Officer, and Vicky Lee, Director of Education shopping, its history goes back to the first permanent white 7 Preserving Utility & Performance Programs, will talk about the challenges of program. Earthwise Salvage settlements in the Duwamish River Valley in the mid-1800s. adapting the space for new audiences. Come see what’s been In 2011, the Tukwila Historical Society opened the Tukwila Design Arts done and see the architectural remnants that remain, including Historical and Cultural Center in one of the city’s most Welcome to the Future King Neptune and his green illuminated eyes. significant buildings, the former Tukwila School and City 5 Seattle Social and Cultural Context in ‘62 The Neptune is the perfect place to learn about 4Culture’s 12 Northwest Architects of the Seattle World’s Fair Hall. The one-story frame building houses two large former 19 Modern Building Technology initiative to enliven historic places through the Site Specific classrooms and adjacent spaces for exhibits showcasing the program. As a special treat, with the support of 4Culture, area’s heritage and for community gatherings. Director Louise July Historic Seattle presents an encore performance by Book- Jones-Brown will share Tukwila’s history and describe the 19 Local Tour It Repertory Theatre of The Future Remembered adapted First Hill Neighborhood historical society’s efforts to have a place of its own. from the HistoryLink retrospective celebrating the 50th Free parking. 21 Learning from Historic Sites Anniversary of Century 21 (see page 8). Tukwila Historical Society On-street metered parking. panama Hotel August When: Monday, October 15, 5:30 – 7 pm 11 Open to View Woman’s century club Where: 605½ S. Main Street, International District Hofius Residence Registration: Free/donation (Harvard exit tHeatre) The National Historic Landmark Panama Hotel was 16 Local Tour When: Friday, April 20, 12 – 1:30 pm built in 1910. It was designed by Sabro Ozasa, a Japanese First Hill Neighborhood Where: 807 E. Roy Street, Capitol Hill Registration: Free/donation; light refreshments American architect and graduate of the University of September Washington, as a “workingman’s” hotel, with bathrooms 15 Design Arts Most Seattleites have gone to movies at the Harvard Exit Stained Glass in Seattle Theatre. Some come early to enjoy a drink and conversation down the hall. Through the years it has served as a home in the cozy parlor, which owes its 1920s ambience to the for generations of Japanese immigrants, Alaskan fisherman 28-30 Out-of-Town Tour Woman’s Century Club, a 120-year-old social club for and international travelers. The building houses the only Victoria, BC women whose past members included Bertha Landes, the remaining urban Japanese bathhouse (sento) left intact in the October first woman mayor of Seattle, painter E. Inez Denny, and United States, serving Seattle’s Japanese American community 15 Learning from Historic Sites Judge Evangeline Starr. Founded in Seattle in 1891 by a until closing its doors in 1950. It also safeguards unclaimed Panama Hotel group of forward-thinking women led by suffragist Carrie possessions (on view) of Japanese American families left there November Chapman Catt, the club produced yearly Arts and Crafts when they were forced to leave their homes for internment 16 Special Event exhibitions from 1904 through 1909. In the 1920s the camps during World War II. Jamie Ford’s best-selling Members Preview: MOHAI at South Lake Union women raised the funds to build their own clubhouse—the novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, has brought Top to bottom: international attention to the hotel and its role. Owner Jan Neptune Theatre auditorium three-story Neoclassical red-brick building that today houses (Christopher Nelson, STG); Woman’s Johnson will share her efforts to preserve it as an affordable Century Club Little Theatre one of Seattle’s best-loved movie theaters. In the late 1960s entrance (Lawrence Kreisman); the building was sold, but the club retained the lifelong right hotel and teahouse. Tukwila Historical and On-street metered parking. Cultural Center; Historic to meet in the parlor, which it does to this day, presenting View of Panama Hotel (Courtesy Jan Johnson) 3 open to view preserving your old house W.d. Hofius residence Historic seattle building Open to View is a popular series that takes (tHe roman catHolic renovation fair members and their guests arcHbisHop’s residence) When: Saturday, April 14, 10 am – 4 pm into historic residences. Where: Washington Hall, 153 14th Avenue (one block When: Saturday, August 11, 1 – 3 pm In 2012, enjoy the north of E. Yesler at E. Fir Street) Where: 1104 Spring Street at Boren Avenue Registration: $5 members and general public; pleasures of an historic Registration: $50 Historic Seattle members only* free for students and architecturally significant residence Washington Hall is one of the city’s most valuable through self-guided community resources and Historic Seattle’s current experience. Event “work in progress.” Ongoing restoration efforts on the concludes with 1908 Danish Brotherhood Hall are geared to making it a refreshments served in popular location for live performance, dance, rehearsals, elegant surroundings, classes, and workshops (visit www.washingtonhall.org for a chance to reconnect history and rental information). It is the perfect location with old friends and to host the second year of our Building Renovation Fair. acquaintances and to This fair differs from existing home and remodeling fairs make new friends in the because we focus specifically on appropriate methods and preservation community. materials for repairing old buildings. Take this opportunity Lawrence Kreisman Lawrence to meet the region’s experts in old buildings—the salvage houses, restoration and renovation architects, contractors, W.D. Hofius came to Seattle in the late 1880s from interior designers, and trades people who appreciate Pennsylvania. He formed a partnership with William working on the components of old houses in glass, wood, Pigott and in 1893 organized the firm W.D. Hofius & metal, tile and ceramics, plumbing, electrical, hardware, Co.