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| At right, ??? 18th Ave in Squire Park. Home built in 1900, 3 bed, 1 bath, 1490 square feet. |
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| ??? 18th Ave in Squire Park. Home built in 1903, 4 bed, 1 bath, 1740 square feet. |
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| Notice of proposed land use action. Early 1900′s homes to be demolished to make way for two medical buildings. |
Squire Park’s Death Row
December 10th, 2008 @ 1:20 am by Cliffe | Sorted Photo Exposure |
Two more houses to add to death row and pour out a forty for, right next to old Providence Hospital (now part of Swedish). These don’t even have an address on Zillow anymore. Both are pretty handsome turn-of-the-century Squire Park houses that will soon make way for the voracious appetite of the medical building market. This block and others surrounding Providence have slowly been picked away over the years. Click on the thumbnails for the photos.
That’s sad. That reddish house is wonderful, too.
It would be great if these houses, especially the 1900 era house, could be moved to another lot, possibly somewhere in the greater Central District area. But alas I assume it is too late and I definitely don’t have the money or lot to purchase and move them.
These Scrooges need to have a visit this Christmas from the Ghost of Adaptive Reuse Past. These houses would make fantastic medical offices for a small practice.
Is there a possibility of moving these? Too bad…if they were old commercial buildings possibly, just possibly, they could be integrated into the new construction.
Hospitals destroy neighborhoods. It’s too bad, those would’ve made great offices like SS said.
Well… Group Health didn’t kill off Capitol Hill…nor did Ballard General kill off Ballard…
It ticks me off when old buildings get knocked down to make way for anything. I wish the Mayor did a a little more (er, that should read DID SOMETHING) to help protect historical buildings. Oh, but wait, I forget, he wants to turn Seattle into a mix between Bellevue and Vancouver.
Rant over
It is seriously a shame to see these go – they look like great little properties that still have a lot of period charm.