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The House of Emil Bereiter (d. 1913), a three-story residence with a wraparound front porch, was erected in 1907-1908; he lived here with his wife and two sons, Donald and Stewart. Bereiter owned the Covington Lumber Company and erected the Bereiter Building, an office/retail building on 1st Avenue in Kent, WA. The City of Kent bought the house from Jack and Barbara Kent in 1996, and provided it to the Greater Kent Historical Society for use as a local history museum. The museum opened on 06/06/1998.

This "Classic Box" dwelling, popular c. 1905, consisted of a cube topped by a hipped roof with cubic oriel windows placed at the corners of the second floor. After the turn of the century, builders and architects sought out a formally simpler, less ornamented style that seemed to suit the new epoch. Across the US, they pared away the picturesque variety of shapes, colors and sheathings of the Queen Anne, arriving at what they thought to be a less overtly ostentatious and more subtle and sophisticated aesthetic. Increased visual simplicity suggested, to many, modernity and good taste.

PCAD id: 17855