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Preservation News the Newsletter of Historic Seattle Educate Preservation news the newsletter of Historic Seattle Educate. Advocate. Preserve. volume 38 issue 2 Preservation is More Than Just Bricks and Mortar September 2012 Too often, the pros and cons of saving or razing an historic building revolve around architectural significance, structural integrity, obsolescence, and the cost to bring it up to code and its systems into the 21st century. What sometimes gets lost In This Issue: or is relegated to a minor role is the value the building has had to generations of residents and workers and the direct and indirect impacts on Free Mukai our economic, social, and cultural identity this pg 2 brings to the discussion. For several years, Historic and Parks Resources of Natural King County Dept. Fall and Winter Seattle has been involved with a number of local Nurse Cadet Corps in front of Harborview Hall, 1944 Events groups in making a case for preserving Harborview pg 4 Hall on First Hill. that sheds light on the people who are most associated We asked Carolyn Duncan, Special Projects Manager, with this important building—nurses. To see an Preservation King County Department of Natural Resources and informative video about the hall and residents, go to: Advocacy in the Parks to discuss her important video interview project www.kingcounty.gov/property/historic-preservation.aspx Pike/Pine Neighborhood pg 5 Life in Harborview Hall emailed me from Gaza where she was performing by Carolyn Duncan community service. One of the first African-American Washington Hall As a reporter in the students at the University of Washington School Update 1980s I knew that people of Nursing, 91-year old Thelma Pegues, earned a pg 7 made a story come alive. Bachelor of Science degree and a Master’s degree and That’s what led me to became a local civil rights leader in medical academics. Programs supported in part by search for the nurses who She died 10 days after our videotaped interview, which lived in beautiful, historic was played at her memorial service. Harborview Hall when I “We had all the comforts of home—a chair, a bed, was asked to do outreach and a bookcase,” said Joan Bauchand Baker, age 82, to support rehabilitation Class of 1955, who earned a Bachelor of Science instead of demolition degree at UW and a Master’s degree in psychiatric of the former nursing nursing elsewhere. “The hall was divided with a student residence. bathroom at each end and living room in between King County Dept. of Natural Resources and Parks Resources of Natural King County Dept. The now elderly, retired where we would meet and have a Christmas party or Harborview Hall nurses’ stories touched something.” me in a way that increased King County built Harborview Hall to support the importance of saving Harborview Hall. I connected a new concept in nursing curriculum pioneered with a graduate who was a scrub nurse at the first heart nationally by the first Dean of the UW School of transplant and networked with a former nurse cadet who Nursing, Elizabeth Soule. It put students next to helped keep local hospitals operating after most R.N.s a hospital where they would complete the newly joined the military during World War II. One graduate required two years of hospital experience. A critical continued, page 7 from the executive director Free Mukai partnering. But at the end of the day the preservation Great news from Vashon Island! of local history is home-grown. Congratulations to the A new Board of Directors has locals who have stepped up to the preservation of this been elected to guide the future important place. Council of the Historic Seattle of the historic Mukai Farmhouse Preservation and Gardens. In 2000, Island and Landmarks acquired the Development historically significant strawberry Authority Marissa Natkin Marissa family farm, but that entity Mary McCumber, Chair became inactive, unable to properly interpret and open Karen D. Breckenridge the site as required by its mission. The 11 new local Sharon Coleman board members have committed themselves and Island Fauna Doyle Landmarks to restoration of the King County Landmark James Fearn house and garden, both of which are in deteriorated 4Culture Michael Herschensohn Historic view of Mukai Farmhouse and Gardens Kate Krafft condition. The full complex includes a fruit barreling Pete Mills plant (under private ownership) and the 1928 home and Rico Quirindongo garden of the B.D. Mukai family. The traditional garden Rick Sever was designed by Kuni Mukai, in an unusual effort by a Marcia Wagoner Japanese-American woman that has been acknowledged Kathleen Brooker, by the National Register of Historic Places. Executive Director Historic Seattle was involved in recent efforts to preserve the site. Partnering with the Cascade Land Board of Directors of the Conservancy (now Forterra) and with support from Historic Seattle 4Culture, a proposal was developed to dissolve Island Preservation Johnson Doug Landmarks; sell the property to the Puget Sound Zen 2007 view of Mukai Farmhouse and Gardens Foundation Center with a preservation easement held by Historic Michael Herschensohn Seattle; and use the proceeds from the sale to purchase President the adjacent barreling plant and the proposal was agreed Kathleen Brooker Preservation news James Fearn to in principal by the original board members of Island is a publication of Historic Seattle Gary Gaffner Landmarks. However, the deal did not go forward and Historic Seattle Staff Rick Sever the property has since deteriorated. Executive Director: Kathleen Brooker Mary McCumber The revitalized Island Landmarks non-profit appears Ex Officio to have a better chance of success. Board members, Director of Real Estate: Kji Kelly Program Director: Larry Kreisman supported by a new and growing membership of 120, Director of Preservation Services: Eugenia Woo are seeking membership and donations under the banner Manager of Volunteers and Events: Luci J. Baker Johnson “Free Mukai.” If they are successful, the historic site will Good Shepherd Center Building Operations Manager: Matt Murray be shared with the public as originally intended. To reach Membership Coordinator/Washington Hall Operations: Dana Phelan them, contact www.mukaihouseandgarden.org Bookkeeper: Natalie McGovern-Borchers Mukai is a highly visible and persuasive argument for Office Administrator: Nancy Hopkins active grassroots engagement with local history. Groups Council and Good Shepherd Center Assistant: Cindy Hughes like Historic Seattle help with advocacy, designation, tel: 206-622-6952 fax: 206-622-1197 funding, marketing, real estate structuring, and e-mail: [email protected] web: www.historicseattle.org 2 www.historicseattle.org at the dearborn house Grant Awards Spring and Summer 2012 Interns Historic Seattle was Dylan Glenn (from Louisville, KY) joined Historic successful in its recent Seattle as an intern this spring through the Seattle requests for funding University Public Histories Program. He is an from 4Culture. We undergraduate in the University Honors Program and have been awarded is working toward a B.A. in History. Dylan worked $10,000 for lighting on a variety of research and writing projects including and sound equipment researching building histories for the Western Building at Washington Hall in Pioneer Square and the Melrose Building and through 4Culture’s Pinevue Apartments in the Pike/Pine neighborhood Woo Eugenia Dylan Glenn 2012 Arts Equipment and writing biographies of architects. His work helped Fund; $7,000 from the Special Projects fund for a First us with projects related to the historic tax credit Hill history publication; and $100,000 for stabilization of application preparation for the Western Building (a the south wall of Washington Hall through King County consulting project for Historic Seattle); our Seattle surplus sales proceeds. We are grateful to 4Culture for its World’s Fair lecture series project; and an advocacy issue continued support of our projects. regarding the preservation of buildings in the Pike/Pine The $7,000 grant from 4Culture Special Projects community. supports research and manuscript preparation for a new Jackie Swett (from Seattle) was Historic Seattle’s publication, Seattle’s First Hill: Evolution of a Neighborhood. summer intern. She is an undergraduate student at Blume Jake Jackie Swett Historic Seattle sees this first comprehensive examination Occidental College in Los Angeles majoring in Art of one the city’s earliest and most significant districts as History. She was an intern with 4Culture in summer increasing its capacity to work directly and constructively 2011. For our organization, she conducted research with a new coalition on Seattle’s First Hill in a community- on Seattle local history with a focus on building wide effort to re-brand it as “your prescription for culture.” history and Northeast Seattle neighborhoods. Using The intent is to shift the neighborhood’s association her compiled findings, she wrote a brief history of from the nexus of major medical centers to renewed the Northeast Seattle area to contribute to a potential appreciation of its historic architecture, arts, and culture. landmark nomination for significant properties. The The coalition has established an online information and research she compiled and her writings are invaluable calendaring device (www.firsthillculture.com) that posts components of the project—a neighborhood advocacy visual and performing art, lecture, and tour events. effort in which Historic Seattle is offering technical Program Director Larry Kreisman and consultant assistance. Brooke Best are incorporating existing Historic Seattle research, oral histories, historic photographs, maps, and architectural documentation with new research and Not a Member? photography. The book will show the importance of this We invite you to join us early community and the negative impacts of ill-chosen Be one of the first to know about exciting events and development paths by the private and public sectors that special programs by becoming a member of have damaged its integrity. Our goal is to stimulate respect and better directed planning to sustain its remaining Historic Seattle at historic structures as a given in community revitalization.
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