dining North Shore

A foodblog worth checking out north  of Boston:  www.northshoredish.com

Seattle Architecture: a walking tour

Seattle Architecture Foundation offers 2 hours walking tours around various neighborhoods for a nominal fee. If you love architecture, walking, and an opportunity to learn about your environment then I suggest you check it out during a Seattle visit.

Some scenes from my tour of "Historic Harvard Belmont District: Mansions on the Hill"




Holmer Hillman house, 1908-09 / Tudor style
Residence later owned by Luke May 1920-30s, well-known criminologist "Sherlock Holmes of America"
Beezer Brothers, architects



Oliver Fisher, 1908 / English Arts & Crafts
Beezer Brothers, architects
$$$: broadcasting (as in KOMO)




Stimson Bullit home, 1959/ A-frame (considered best example in Seattle) with Swedish granite
I saw Kay Bullit in the window
Biscetti Morse, architects
$$$: television





Frank Brownell, 1910-1917 / Georgian eclectic
with colonial influence (shingles), and porch cochere
Carl Gould (of Univ Washington fame)




Samuel Hill residence 1910 -1939/ Classical style with concrete construction
not Beaux Art because it isn't fancy enough
Hornblower & Marshall, architects from Washington DC
$$$: married into it & railroads




Four Luxury Condos, 1985/ Moderne
Ralph Anderson, architect (Seattle)
Broadway East



Lewis Peoples, 1908, appearance of columns with brackets and deep overhang roof; garage added in 1927 with 'secret' passage to home
Swiss Chalet on Broadway East
Schack, Young & Meyer
$$$: Department stores



Garber Residence, 1923
Jacobian style
Schack, Young, and Meyer, architects
on Broadway East



Richard Merrill home, 1909-1910 / Classical style with lumber/ symmetry with smooth finish
Charles Platt, architect
$$$: Merrill and Ring Lumber




Belmont/ Seattle (old on left, new on right)
Jacobian Style Home 1904
Ibsen Nelson, architect

Highland Lighthouse
Turo, MA

Hopper was here