06/26/2007

City of Seattle, Department of Neighborhoods

"This is believed to be the first house on Beacon Hill, built in 1883 for Judge Edward Turner and his wife Estelle. Turner was a pioneer real estate developer from Maine. The house was originally located about one hundred yards west, and relocated when Beacon Avenue South was graded about 1907. It was originally built in the Italianate villa style, with a two-story polygonal bay and a bracketed hip roof. Turner died about 1898, when the house was acquired by Frederick Koepf, chief draftsman in the city engineer's office. He remodeled it in the Queen Anne style, adding a pyramidal turret, leaded windows and fish-scale shingles."