I need a quick Reframe check on this 1953 photo of Queen Anne Avenue North and West Prospect Street.
Is the dilapidated Queen Anne style house still
there? Survey says…
Nope. Looks like it was swallowed up sometime in the great black hole known as 1953-1980. Click for higher res.
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| Queen Anne style house at intersection of Queen Anne Avenue North and West Prospect Street. Photo by Marion Dean Ross, June 1953. Photo courtesy University of Oregon Libraries, Architecture of Oregon & the Pacific Northwest. |
Gone by 1968.
The two neighboring houses are still there.
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=ry4d2h4t39hj&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&scene=3695018&encType=1
@Dan,
Man, I would be growing some serious vegetables on that sunny south-facing slope if I lived there.
Queen Anne and Prospect is gone, long gone. The Smith House in the upper right hand corner (the residence of the Japanese consul) is very much in place. This house has been replaced by something I recall looking a bit like a 1960s motel, but I could be off by a block. I guess its date is 1968.
How did my comment from this morning get deleted? I’d said that according to the King County Tax Parcel website, the current apartment building that is now on that corner was built in 1955, so I’m betting that this was one of the last photos of that house taken before it was bought and razed.
And here’s an early shot of the house with the Counterbalance going by–it’s the top photo on the page.
http://www.qahistory.org/counterbalance/index.htm