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Overview

The Fehren Marvin Company designed this small residence influenced by Queen Anne precedents, for the dentist Ashley B. Palmer between 1900 and 1901.

Building History

The Fehren-Marvin Company designed this house for Dr. A.B. Palmer located at 1822 14th Avenue at a cost of $2,300. It was to measure 32 feet by 36 feet. (See "Real Estate vs.Nome Fever," Seattle Daily Times, 05/26/1900, p. 13.) A year later, the Seattle Daily Times noted of the house: "Dr. A.B. Palmer's home, on Fourteenth avenue near East Denny way, is very attractive. The arrangement of the interior is novel, and the library, opening from the hall, and the dining room is happily designed. The house was built at a cost of $2,500." (See "Real Estate and Building News: New Houses Illustrated, Seattle Daily Times, 10/16/1901, p. 21.)

Ashley Bennett Palmer (born 01/09/1865 in Monticello, IA-d. 08/15/1943 in Seattle, WA) lived here with his wife Minnie Agnes Beatty (born 04/24/1872 in IA-d. 11/11/1927 in Seattle, WA) and daughter Margaret Esther Palmer (born 02/04/1892 in Jasper, IA-d. 07/23/1918 in Seattle, WA). They wed on 12/30/1890 in Jasper, IA, and resided in this house until only about 1904. (See Polk's Seattle Directory Company's Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1904, p. 817.) The Palmers disappeared from Seattle's city directories for a few years before reappearing in the 1910 US Census, living in a dwelling at 4359 6th Avenue NE by 1910. Their second daughter Elizabeth Jane Palmer Finlon (born 07/27/1906 in Iowa City, IA-d. 02/16/2004 in Edmonds, WA) was born in Iowa City, IA, suggesting that the family returned to that state for a few years in the mid-1900s. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1910; Census Place: Seattle Ward 10, King, Washington; Roll: T624_1661; Page: 6a; Enumeration District: 0177; FHL microfilm: 1375674, accessed 08/30/2023.) Other daughter Margaret likely died in the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.

Ashley Palmer worked in partnership with David Isaac Burkhart (1871-1944) in a dental partnership located in Rooms #304-307 of the Mutual Life Building in 1902. (See Polk Seattle Directory Company's Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1902, p. 298.)

PCAD id: 15371