Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses

Designers: Lovett, Wendell H., Architect (firm); Wendell Harper Lovett (architect)

Dates: constructed 1972

1 story

69 Rocky Road
Crane Island, WA 98245

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Building History

This small, minimal cabin designed for the architect Wendell H. Lovett (1922-2016), his wife and two daughters was completed in 1972.

The architect sold plans for this house commercially, and others were built in other parts fo the US.

Another, larger 2,469-square-foot residence designed by architect Paul Hoag had been built on the property by 1988. This house had two bedrooms and two baths.

In 06/2022, the two houses and 1.54 acres of land had an asking price of $2,295,000.

Building Notes

Architect's own house.

Noted Seattle architect Fred Bassetti (1917-2013) called Lovett's Crane Island House one of the "best world class buildings that I know of." (DOCOMOMOWeWA.org, "Bassetti Oral History," conducted by Eugenia Woo, 01/30/2008.)

PCAD id: 11667