Willatzen & Byrne, 1912

The first proposal for this house for a Seattle Post-Intelligencer cartoonist was            evidently too grand, so the architects produced a second, scaled back version. The client’s health apparently failed a short time later, for he gave up his job and seems to have soon died. Therefore, the house is sometimes referred to as the Mrs. B.H.D. Hager House. Even in the abridged version, it is a spacious and delightful residence and nearly unchanged, except for the inexplicable removal of a porch and balcony overlooking downtown Seattle from the rear.

Research courtesy of Jess M. Giessel.
Photos courtesy of Michael Houser, State Architectural Historian for the Washington Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation.

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