(Image: Historic Seattle)
First Historic Seattle saved the old Boylston Ave house as part of a six-building preservation effort on the street. Now it is doing the work to have its 1901-era, three-story apartment building at 1411 Boylston Ave recognized as an official city landmark as it prepares to sell the property. A hearing on the nomination will take place Wednesday.
Historic Seattle acquired six Belmont-Boylston properties in 1989 and rehabilitated the old houses in what it called the Bel-Boy project. The organization sold five of the six buildings in 2008. It says 1411 Boylston Ave was retained and has been operated as a 17-unit, single room occupancy, low-income apartment building.
Now, as the organization prepares to sell the building, it is asking the Landmarks Preservation Board to consider the Queen Anne-style structure with Colonial Revival elements for protections that will guide and restrict any future updates, renovations, or major changes.
“Designed by the architecture firm of Josenhans and Allan, 1411 Boylston was built as a two-family dwelling at a cost of $6,500.19 It was distinguished as a ‘double house,’ divided vertically with the plan of each half-house mirroring that of the other. Each half had nine rooms,” the nomination (PDF) reads. “Hambach used Colonial detailing to further distinguish the building, including Palladian windows and clustered Tuscan columns.”
City staff have recommended the nomination as the property’s exterior and site “embodies the distinctive visible characteristics of an architectural style, or period, or of a method of construction”
Wednesday’s meeting to consider the nomination will take place Wednesday starting at 3:30 PM (PDF). If the board approves, 1411 Boylston Ave will come back in front of the board again for a final vote on the designation.
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