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Building History

In his interview with architectural historian Meredith Clausen in 1983, Portland architect Pietro Belluschi said of the Myers House: "I did the house for Myers in Seattle up on Magnolia bluff. I went to visit them; the site was full of madrona trees. I hated to cut down madrona trees so I managed to preserve them by introducing many little courtyards without thinking much about Architecture with a capital "A", about the house itself. There must be about five or six courtyards. One would be for garbage cans, another would have a pool, another one would be for service, another one would be for the entrance, and so on. The house, the garden, the madrona trees would all be one. The final plans were completed and all ready to go, and [then I--Ed.] went to the city to get the permits, and found out it exceeded the number of square feet which one could put on that particular site. I was stunned. But I thought a moment and decided to eliminate part of the roof over the porch and show a trellis. The trick worked, but was a close call." (See Meredith Clausen, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, "Oral history interview with Pietro Belluschi, 1983 August 22-September 4," transcript of interview, [Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, Reference Department], p. 10.)

Designed by Pietro Belluschi (1899-1994) for his firm, A.E. Doyle and Associates, the Harry M. and Mary C. Myers House was a highly influential house for young architects in Seattle when it was built just before World War II. John Alexander Grant served as the Landscape Architect for the Myers House.

Harry McLean Myers (born 09/08/1885 in New York, NY) operated the Bremerton Oil Delivery Company, headquartered in 1942 at 616 Pacific Avenue in Bremerton, WA.

Building Notes

Victor Steinbrueck, in his guidebook, Seattle Architecture 1850-1953, noted that the Myers House dated from 1937. (See Victor Steinbrueck, Seattle Architecture 1850-1953, [New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1953], p. 34.)

PCAD id: 6413