Profile: 1522 E Jefferson In Squire Park
May 31st, 2007 @ 12:29 am by Cliffe | Sorted Historic Buildings
This is a post today that literally hits close to home, in that I’m about to become neighbors with this house. I’m moving to the Squire Park neighborhood in the Central District — very exciting. So let’s take a look at 1522 E. Jefferson, built in 1902 according to the Department of Neighborhoods. The house is historically significant in that it once belonged to George Carmack, who is credited with discovering the gold that set the Klondike Gold Rush into motion in 1896. However, this claim is cloudy since it is said that he moved to California in 1900, which would be two years before the home was built. Anyone have any interesting old homes in their area of Seattle that are waiting to be documented? Well let’s take a closer look. Click on the images for higher-res versions.
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| 1937 tax card photograph. Courtesy Department of Neighborhoods. This looks like it was once a stunning Dutch Colonial style house. | As you can see, the siding sections have changed yet the hipped dormer remains intact. It looks as though much of the woodworking is still original. The house just screams out to be properly preserved and returned to its original glory. |
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| Right side of the house. The original porch structure looks very much the same. | The “No Trespassing” sign is not the warmest of welcomes. Dense overgrowth covers the yard. |
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| Back of the house. An old shed with familiar glass bottle and chair setup. Juxtaposed with the Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill Campus Parking Lot imposing in the background. This is the only house on the block that has not sold to the hospital. | Left side of the house. You can see more of the Swedish campus here. This whole block was once rows of houses but only this home now remains. |
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| Far right side of the house. It would not be surprising if the window hardware was original. | Back of the house. The wood siding shows signs of dilapidation. Downtown Seattle hangs in the background. |
May 31st, 2007 @ 8:32 am
love this post! And that neighborhood, I’m about to move there as well, to 24th and Cherry. The building we’re moving into was built in 1928.
May 31st, 2007 @ 5:28 pm
I suppose we’re obliged to bake each other cherry pies now. You’d better hope I buy mine from Whole Foods!
Anyway, congratulations on the move and new place.
Cliffe
July 2nd, 2007 @ 12:26 pm
I wait for the bus across the street from this house. Love the grape vines that hang down all summer. They just tore apart something to the west of this house and removed a lot of the greenery around it, I’m sure making way for additional Providence parking structures. Oh, speaking of, I guess it’s now Cherry Hill because that’s the name Swedish is changing its Providence campus to. So since I’m at 16th and Cherry, I’m no longer in Squire Park but on Cherry Hill.
July 11th, 2007 @ 9:54 am
i know this place very well. i used to live in one of the bungalows in Bungalow Court (16th and Jefferson) years back. the place is so worn down and in such sorry shape; your photo of the backyard at least looks much cleaner than i had seen it. regardless, it is amazing to see how the hospital is building all around it over the years… just waiting to swoop in…
November 9th, 2007 @ 3:58 pm
George indeed went to California, but then came back… along the way, he changed wives (his first wife did not care for Seattle OR points south)
Details can be found here:
http://www.nps.gov/archive/klse/hrs/hrs6a7.htm
Key points can be found here”
George Carmack House
1522 East Jefferson St.
The George Carmack (1910-1922) residence is located at the corner of East Jefferson and 16th Avenue. It is a two and a half-story Colonial Revival house with a rectangular plan and a side-gambrel roof.
Historical Significance
George Washington Carmack, the “official discover of Klondike gold,” lived in this house from 1910 until 1922. On August 16, 1897, Carmack discovered gold along Bonzana Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River. Carmack was married to a Tagish Indian woman named Kate. When he discovered the gold, he was accompanied by two Tagish men Skookum Jim Mason, and Dawson (Tagish) Charley. By filing a claim first, Carmack became credited with finding the Klondike lode. After Carmack arrived in Seattle on July 17, 1897, the stampede to the Klondike began.
When Carmack and his wife disposed of their holdings in the Klondike, they moved to Seattle where they took residence at the prestigious Hotel Seattle. Kate Carmack did not enjoy living in Seattle and returned to her northern home. [46] Carmack soon thereafter married a woman named Marguerite. Carmack eventually left the Hotel Seattle, but continued residing in the Pioneer Square area. From 1905 until 1909, he lived in a house at 3007 East Denny Way, which has since been removed. By 1910, Carmack moved to 1522 East Jefferson. According to Seattle City Directories, Carmack lived at this address until he died in 1922. [47] Marguerite Carmack continued living in the house until the 1940s.
November 10th, 2007 @ 1:17 am
Hey Greg:
Great information! Thanks for sharing that.
I recently got access to this house and was able to document the interior. It’s just as run down (if not more) on the inside. I’ll post those soon.
Cliffe
July 21st, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
I worked for the lady who lived there for the last 50 years. The house is very well built but is in desperate need of refurbishing. I miss this house and the woman who lived there.
August 1st, 2008 @ 8:03 pm
The house is not a Dutch Colonial, it is a shingle style arts and crafts and one of the most beautiful exteriors I have seen. I came across it looking for Shingle Style Bungalow gambrel roof lines. I hope you can post the interior staircase and dining room at least.
August 1st, 2008 @ 11:34 pm
According to the Department of Neighborhoods, it is a Dutch Colonial.
http://web1.seattle.gov/dpd/historicalsite/QueryResult.aspx?ID=-126627947
Interior shots are at these two links:
http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/03/27/inside-historic-1522-e-jefferson-pt-1/
http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/03/28/inside-historic-1522-e-jefferson-pt-2/
“At least”? Thanks for posting (I think).
August 7th, 2008 @ 9:16 pm
Nope, it’s an Arts and Crafts (not a prairie style, but more English looking). It’s Arts and Crafts down to the last detail and the Neighborhood should get their description corrected because it would get a LOT more attention and interest listed correctly as an Arts and Crafts. To the last detail: The door and window casement details, especially the beautiful fireplace, the window types and even down to the hanging light fixture it is totally Arts and Crafts and again, one of very best examples I have ever seen. Thank you so much for sharing your access.
Just as an aside, it is true it has a gambrel roof, which most people usually associate with Dutch Colonial, it has columns which are usually associated with classical style and it has a bay window which most people associate with Queen Anne, all of those borrowed elements are very common in Arts and Crafts houses. This house should be linked to the Arts and Crafts restoration sites, it is one of the most popular and attractive historical styles that people are undertaking.
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