PCAD - Seattle Public Schools, Summit Elementary School, First Hill, Seattle, WA

AKA: Northwest School, First Hill, Seattle, WA ; Seattle Public Schools, Summit Grade School, First Hill, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - public buildings - schools - elementary schools; built works - public buildings - schools - high schools; built works - public buildings - schools - middle schools

1415 Summit Avenue
First Hill, Seattle, WA 98122

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Building History

James Stephen (1858-1938), the Seattle Public Schools' District Architect between 1899-1908, designed the Summit Elementary School in 1904-1905.

Building Notes

The Summit School occupied land on which the Grace Hospital stood before 1904. Tel: 206.324.2522 (2011).

Alteration

The Seattle Public School District sold the Summit School in 1977, at which time it was remodeled into a commercial office building;

in 1980, it was converted back into educational usage, albeit a private school, as the Northwest School. This entity described itself as a college preparatory and boarding school serving grades 6-12. Tel: 206.682.7309 (2018).

PCAD id: 13172

Publications

Woodbridge, Sally, Montgomery, Roger, "Summit Grade School, 1905", Guide to Architecture in Washington State, 146, 1980. Warren, James R., King County and Its Emerald City: Seattle, 178, 1997. Shaw, Linda, "Further closure of Seattle schools?", Seattle Times, B1, B4, 10/27/2008.

Seattle Public Schools, Summit Elementary School, First Hill, Seattle, WA (1904-1905)

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