AKA: Dearborn Japanese House Project, First Hill, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses

Designers: Dozier, Henry, Architect (firm); Henry Dozier (architect)

Dates: constructed 1904-1905

Seneca Street and Minor Avenue
First Hill, Seattle, WA 98101

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Southwest corner of Seneca Street and Minor Avenue

Henry Dozier designed a house for real estate developer H.H. Dearborn designed to capture attention in 1904; the three-story mansion, set to cost $20,000, featured pagoda-style roofs on an otherwise conventional American house. The Seattle Daily Times of 11/19/1904 discussed the novel dwelling: "The house will be of the American style, with just a touch of Japanese architecture, enough, however, to render Mr. Dearborn's home distinctive from any other in the city. It will be of frame, veneered with brick. The brick in turn will be treated with a coat of cement, which then be painted and sanded. The interior will be finished in quarter [sawn] oak. It will be heat by a hot water plant. The foundation will be of solid granite. Work will begin at once." (See "Realty and Building," Seattle Daily Times, 11/19/1904, p. 3.)

PCAD id: 16245