We first posted about Moore Investment Company in
March of 2008. As you know, in 1900 J.A. Moore paid $225,000 for 160 acres of what would become Capitol Hill.
I managed to dig up this 1902 ad showing what was for sale at the time. Ahh, craftsmanship — you are missed. Click for the high res and drop by the comments to tell us which houses you’ve found that are still standing.
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| Under the management of the Moore Investment Company, Capitol Hill has become one of the most desirable residence districts in the city. Photos by Webster & Stevens. The Seattle Mail And Herald, 1902. |
What a fun treasure hunt; thank you! Amazing to see so many of them still standing and too bad about the ugly first floor remodeling of one house, but what a nice way to spend time first thing in the morning – cruising old neighborhoods full of beautiful houses in Seattle courtesy of Google maps. Not quite as good as being there but it’s the next best thing!
The architect went a little bit crazy on the bottom right one. All are beautiful.
Cakey!
Mind blowing. Amazing that these vintage buildings still stand straight. They are a treasure.
A link to the middle left
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=prospect+and+17th+seattle+wa&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS319US326&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=E+Prospect+St+%26+17th+Ave+E,+Seattle,+WA+98112&gl=us&ei=1M6IS6iYLIPUsQPSyaCFAw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA
Whoops, pasted the wrong link
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=prospect+and+17th+seattle+wa&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=E+Prospect+St+%26+17th+Ave+E,+Seattle,+King,+Washington+98112&gl=us&ei=1M6IS6iYLIPUsQPSyaCFAw&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA&ll=47.628736,-122.311317&spn=0.000519,0.001145&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=47.628851,-122.311263&panoid=uV4G7TRK06dd5D-rTRNGAw&cbp=12,88.76,,0,5
They’re all standing except for the middle right one. Either the intersection or the picture is wrong because all the houses at that intersection are older homes.
Rats, and that’s my favorite of the lot!
Mr. Moore may have missed on the address with the middle right photo. Loc.gov has a photo of that corner pre-1909, and the house is not there.
From: “Glimpses of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition”
http://international.loc.gov/service/gc/mtfgc/11029/0450000.jpg
Also I could not find Monroe in the 1900 or 1923 Polk Directories (the only ones at hand.)
We live in the house on the lower right, and understand that the house was moved from the corner of 17th and Prospect to an adjacent lot around 1903. Yet to be researched is why (and how) they made such a move…
that was really cool using google earth to find the houses im so intrigued by looking at then and now pictures. all of them are still standing but one and i agree that that one house looked better before they remodeled it