AKA: Mt. Baker Community Club, Club House, Mount Baker, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - public buildings - assembly halls; built works - recreation areas and structures

Designers: Dose, C.P., and Company, Architects (firm); Charles C. Dose (architect)

Dates: constructed 1914

2 stories, total floor area: 9,504 sq. ft.

2811 Mount Rainier Drive South
Mount Baker, Seattle, WA 98144

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According to historian David Rash, Charles C. Dose designed this clubhouse for inhabitants of the Mount Baker Park Sub-division. J.C. Hunter, head of the Hunter Tract Improvement Company, began construction of the Mount Baker development in 1908. Rash dated this club house to 1914, although others place the date at 1909. (See David A. Rash, "Additional Significant Seattle Architects," in Shaping Seattle Architecture, Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, ed., (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994), p. 342.) King County Parcel records corroborate Rash's 1914 construction date. Architectural historian Michael Houser credited the Mount Baker Community Club to the architects Ellsworth Storey (1879-1960) and Charles Lyman Haynes (1870-1949). (See "Charles L. Haynes 1870-1949,"Accessed 02/15/2013.) it is possible that these were two separate buildings in Mount Baker called a similar name.

Tel: (206) 722-7209 (2010); the rectangular, wood-frame Community Clubhouse had a 9,158-square-foot lot in 2010; the Club House itself was 9,504 square feet, 7,904 of it in an auditorium, 1600 in a mezzanine space. In 2010, the building had a taxable value of $472,200.

The Community Clubhouse has been extensively remodeled since its construction.