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The Seattle Landmarks Board last week voted to designate the Belmont-Boylston “double house” at 1411 Boylston Ave for official city protections.

The board voted unanimously in favor of designation, under Standard D, recognizing the 1901-era structure’s “distinctive visible characteristics” in a decision that extends protections to the exterior of the building and surgically restricts future changes to “the interior stairs between the first and second floors and both sides of the demising wall.”

CHS reported previously on the landmarks process that has come as part of Historic Seattle’s preparation to sell the property it renovated after purchasing a swath in the area in 1989.

The Seattle City Council must now pass an ordinance imposing the restrictions on the designated property.

Meanwhile, another landmarks board session in March will consider the nomination of the latest property on Capitol Hill’s Millionaire’s Row to be put up for landmark status. CHS reported here on the Burwell House and its owners’ hopes the 1904-built 14th Ave E house will be deemed worthy to advance in the landmarks process.

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