PCAD - Stimson Mill Company, Lumber and Shingle Mill, Office, Ballard, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings; built works - industrial buildings - factories

Exterior view of the Stimson Mill Company Office Building, Ballard, Seattle, WA, c. 1907. From the Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI), PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Item #1983.10.7757, accessed 02/23/2023

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2116 NW Vernon Place
Ballard, Seattle, WA 98107-4018

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Overview

Kirktland Kelsey Cutter, the designer of this small office building for the Stimson Mill Company in Seattle's Ballard neigborhood, adopted Mission Style stepped gables as well as clinker brick walls, two characteristics of Arts and Crafts Movement design.

Building Notes

University of Washington Department of Architecture Professor, Folke Nyberg, and his students designated this building as "significant to the city" in a survey of Seattle's historic architecture conducted in 1975.

Alteration

The Mission Style, stepped gables of the dormers have been removed. They were likely weakened in one of the various earthquakes Seattle has withstood in 1949, 1965 or 2001.

PCAD id: 10908