June 12th, 2009 @ 12:34 am by Cliffe | Sorted Historic Buildings
We just
profiled Ballard’s Fire Station 18 last week. Today, to compliment the modern day photos, we present the original 1910 architectural plans from Charles Bebb and Louis Mendel. If you compare the two, you can see that the building followed the plans relatively closely and remains true to them now. According to the University of Washington Special Collections Division, the modified medieval Germanic style was designed in response to the large number of northern European and Scandinavian residents in the Ballard during the early 1900’s. Click on the image for the super-higher res copy.
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| Architectural plans for Fire Station 18. Architects Charles Bebb and Louis Mendel, 1910. Image courtesy University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division. |
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June 12th, 2009 @ 12:59 am
Things like this are really cool to see here, especially when you can relate it directly to an existing historic structure. Sure, seeing this degree of precision these days is nothing unusual, but to think that someone could design something like this with little more than some pens, a T-square and a slide rule is mind-boggling, especially now.
June 12th, 2009 @ 9:04 am
Shore is a beaut. How is it that with the enormous budgets of cities and other governments these days, such quality of materials and craftsmanship are considered untenable? In 1910 dollars, wouldn’t this structure have been astronomically pricey? I guess labor was cheap or something. I don’t understand economics well enough. “All’s I know is”… they don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
June 12th, 2009 @ 6:10 pm
These drawings are just beautiful.
June 12th, 2009 @ 6:48 pm
I had great old times when it was the Ballard Firehouse, I never appreciated the building back then. I love the place know….. I love the drawings.