Hi, I saw your request for old and new house pictures, I wanted to send some over & see if they interest you… The house is on Orcas St. in Georgetown. It was built in 1904 on land that is now mid-runway Boeing Field, and moved to Orcas when the airport was built in 1928. I have blueprints for a never-built conversion from house to house shaped hospital dated 1945. It was a run down rental for many years, one of many properties that were sliding into neglect while their owners waited for Georgetown to become completely industrial.
Andy Bookwalter
Via E-Mail
8/6/08
Andy Bookwalter
Via E-Mail
8/6/08
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| Bookwalter House, 1930′ s tax photo. |
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| Bookwalter House, 1950′s tax photo. |
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| Bookwalter House as it appears today. |
Very nice. I just posted on Seattle History Examiner a call for nominations for oldest house per neighborhood. Any idea how many houses, if any, antedate this one in Georgetown? (My name should be linked to the post.)
Wow! It looks great. I am thinking of buying in Georgetown in the next couple of months.
Ben,
There are only few houses around Georgetown which date prior to 1900.. The oldest is from 1890. I will see about getting the photo of that one up on the historyblog for Georgetown this week.
old foghi
Neat…I’ll add you to my blogroll.
I wonder if any garages or outbuildings in Georgetown predate the Maertens house (the 1890 residence that is mentioned above). There are a lot of garages and sheds that you can see from Georgetown alleys that sure seem older than dirt, and some of them look more like small cottages than garages. I would have bet that my garage predated my house, but it in fact was built in 1928, and is just really decrepit.
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