Historic seattle 2 0 1 3 p r o g r a m s www.historicseattle.org what’s Welcome to seattle’s premier educational program for inside: lovers of buildings and Heritage. learning 3 from historic Each year, Pacific Northwest residents enjoy our popular lectures, sites private home, local and out-of-town tours, and special events that open bring you closer to understanding and appreciating the rich and 4 to view varied built environment that we seek to preserve and protect with out-of-town your help. 5 tours 2013 programs at a glance 6 design arts January May preserving 23 Learning from Historic Sites 14 Special Event 8 utility Women’s University Club Fifth Annual Preservation Awards Ceremony February 22 Local Tour First Hill Neighborhood local tours 7 Design Arts California Arts & Crafts Architecture Film Nights 10 Beautiful Simplicity: Arts & Crafts Architecture in June Southern California 8 Local Tour preserving Shared Walls Capitol Hill Apartment Tour 11 your old 14 Design Arts house California Arts & Crafts Architecture Film Nights 29 Local Tour Designing with Nature: Arts & Crafts Architecture Sand Point Naval Air Station special in Northern California 12 event July 21 Design Arts 13 Out-of-Town Tour California Arts & Crafts Architecture Film Nights Historic Everett Pursuing Beauty: The Architecture of Cover l to r, top to Bernard Maybeck 27 Learning from Historic Sites bottom: 2011 Building Eastside Heritage Center Renovation Fair (Eugenia March Woo); Aerial view of Holy 6 Preserving Utility 31 Local Tour Names Academy (Above Historic Theatres Library and Paramount First Hill Neighborhood the Rest Aerial Photography, Theatre Tour Inc.); Laurentide, Colman August Residence (Lawrence 16 Preserving Utility 25 Open to View Kreisman); Interior of Volunteer Park Conservatory Barksdale Residence Barksdale Residence (Franklin Esate Imaging); Color April September etching of the Wrigley and 3 Preserving Utility 14 Design Arts Chicago Tribune Tower, King Street Station Inside and Out of the Arts & Crafts House (Chester Danforth; Dodge/ Kreisman Collection); Plaster 13 Preserving Your Old House October ceiling under restoration, Building Renovation Fair 6 Preserving Utility King Street Station (Seattle Stories in Stone Department of Transportation); 28 Open to View Art Deco building at Sand Colman Estate 23-27 Out-of-Town Tour Point (Lawrence Kreisman); Architectural Highlights of Chicago E.E. Green-designed 29 Learning from Historic Sites bungalow in Seattle (Colin Holy Names Academy November Barr); Snohomish County 4 Learning from Historic Sites Courthouse, Everett El Centro de la Raza (Lawrence Kreisman) 2 www.historicseattle.org learning from historic sites/members meetings annual meeting at Women’s eastside Heritage center/ Four times a year, Historic Seattle invites its university club Winters House members and the public When: Wednesday, January 23, 5:30 – 7:30 pm When: Saturday, July 27, 10 – 11:30 am to learn about programs Where: 1105 Sixth Ave., Downtown Where: 2102 Bellevue Way SE, Bellevue and projects of interest Registration: Free/donation; light refreshments, cash bar (I-90 E. to Bellevue Way exit, north to Winters taking place through Join us as we welcome in our 39th year of education, House on the right.) Registration: Free/donation the auspices of Historic advocacy, and preservation real estate development in the Seattle. These events are Women’s University Club—the site of our 2nd Annual The Eastside Heritage Center hosts Historic Seattle at the held at sites of historic Historic Preservation Awards presentations. Designated a Winters House, built for Frederick and Cecilia Winters, or architectural interest. Seattle City Landmark in 2008, this handsome Georgian- who came to Washington in 1906 and established a thriving A short business meeting style brick building has beautiful reception rooms and the wholesale floral business in Bellevue. Built in the late 1920s, precedes the program. ballroom where our program will be held. this home was inspired by the revival of the Spanish Colonial Please note that our members In 1914, the Women’s University Club was founded style promoted at the Panama-California Exhibition in San meetings take place on different to form a closer union of university women in order Diego in 1915 and popularized in the Hollywood films of days of the week and times. to promote educational, cultural, and social activities. the next decade. In addition to seeing the house and learning In 1921, the membership swung into action to plan about Bellevue from Executive Director Heather Trescases, a new clubhouse at Sixth and Spring. They purchased Education Coordinator Jane Morton will take participants the lot for $30,000 and nearly 600 club members sold for a stroll along the boardwalk of the Mercer Slough Nature $90,000 worth of bonds for building construction. Seattle Park adjoining the property. After the meeting, take this architects A.H. Albertson and Édouard Frère Champney opportunity to be on the eastside to explore the outstanding were selected as the architects, and excavation of the site Arts & Crafts booths at the Bellevue Arts Museum Fair at was started in March 1922. The members moved into Bellevue Square. Parking adjoins the house. their new home in November of that year. l entro de la aza On-street metered parking. e c r When: Monday, November 4, 5:30 – 7 pm Where: 2524 16th Ave. S., Beacon Hill Holy names academy Registration: Free/donation When: Monday, April 29, 5:30 – 7 pm El Centro de la Raza is a success story about an historic Where: 728 21st Ave. E. (between E. Roy and E. Aloha building and the people who took action to save it and streets), Capitol Hill make it a vibrant community gathering place. El Centro was Registration: Free/donation founded in 1972 by Chicano/Latino activists and people The Sisters of the Holy Names were forced to move their of several other ethnic groups who occupied Beacon Hill academy for young girls from an eclectic 1883-84 building School, a 1904 frame elementary school that had been closed at Seventh Ave. S. and S. Jackson St. during the regrading due to declining enrollment. It has taken over 30 years of of that neighborhood in 1906. They relocated to this larger constant vigilance and commitment to bring the building Baroque Revival building in 1908. The elegant classical up to code through repair and replacement of failing systems structure was designed by C. Alfred Breitung and Theobald and refurbishment of interiors. El Centro de la Raza offers Buchinger, whose partnership led to many commissions programs and services and works to raise awareness about the from the Roman Catholic Church. They were the designers needs of the Chicano/Latino community in the United States. of Historic Seattle’s landmark Home of the Good Shepherd The City of Seattle’s Historic Preservation program recently at nearly the same time. Despite almost a century of use, completed a three-year project documenting the history of few exterior and interior modifications have occurred and Southeast Seattle through the efforts of El Centro, Northwest the building still has impressive hallways, high ceilings, African American Museum, Rainier Valley Historical Society, Top to bottom: wood trim and molding. We tour the building to see its Washington State Jewish Historical Society, and the Wing Women’s University Club auditorium, classrooms, and one of Seattle’s secret gems, its John McKinney); Holy Names Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. Academy (Christie Spielman) chapel. You are encouraged to carpool, as there is limited on-street Learn about the process and the finished product—posters, Winters House, 1930s parking. There is also a small parking lot in the back of the building (Eastside Heritage Center) El Centro essays, and reports focusing on the era after World War II and de la Raza (Holly Taylor) (enter from 22nd Ave. E.). Entrance to the building is through the looking at the historical roots of the area’s ethnic diversity. main doors on 21st Ave. E. Lot and street parking; Beacon Hill light rail station. www.historicseattle.org 3 open to view laurence colman estate Julian and maraJane barksdale When: Sunday, April 28, 1 – 4 pm residence Where: West Seattle, address and directions sent prior to tour When: Sunday, August 25, 1 – 4 pm Registration: $35 members and guests of members; Where: Cedar Park, NE Seattle, address and directions $45 general public; $15 students sent prior to tour Pre-registration required Registration: $35 members and guests of members; $45 general public; $15 students Enjoy the pleasures Pre-registration required of historic and University of Washington Geology Professor Julian architecturally Barksdale and wife Marajane, an art teacher in the significant sites through Seattle schools, acquired their Cedar Park property in guided and self-guided Northeast Seattle in the mid-1930s. While serving in the experiences. Events Pacific during World War II, Julian Barksdale met UW include refreshments architecture graduate A. Quincy Jones, who recommended served in pleasant and Barksdale speak to Professor Lionel H. (“Spike”) Pries elegant surroundings and about the property. In 1948-49 Pries designed a complete a chance to reconnect make-over that transformed the existing cottage on the site with old friends and Lawrence Kreisman Lawrence into an extraordinary early example of Northwest regional acquaintances and to Laurentide designed by Arthur Loveless Modern architecture. Construction was completed and the make new friends in the Barksdales moved in fall of 1950. In 1954, Pries designed preservation community. In 1922, Laurence Colman opted for a permanent house on property purchased by his father, pioneer railroad and a small addition that was completed the next year. Because real estate developer James Colman, in 1905. Architect the house remained in the ownership of the Barksdale Arthur Loveless chose the English Tudor style for the home family until 2006, it is almost completely unchanged at Laurentide.