NEW Montlake Historic Homes

2225 E North St.

Built: 1926 Historic Name: Edwards Residence Style: Vernacular Rank: Historic Contributing
Description: This house is surrounded by a tall fence and hedge that obscure much of the building. It is a simple gabled house with one story and a daylight basement, with clapboard cladding. An entry has been added at the east end, with a gabled roof and wood stairs. Windows have wide wood surrounds and newer sash with a combination of one-over-one sash in twos or threes and picture windows. There is a stucco-clad exterior chimney on the front facade.
Cultural: This house was rented in the 1930s; the first identified owners (1948) wereThomas & Mabel Edwards; he worked for the Port of Seattle. They remained here through at least 1958.
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2219 E North St.

Built: 1926 Historic Name: Hansen Residence Style: Vernacular Rank: Historic Contributing
Description: This simple cottage sits on an open, triangular corner lot with lawn, foundation shrubs and a large evergreen tree at the corner. The clapboard- clad house has one story and a daylight basement. It has a cross-gable roof with a gabled bay on the east end of the facade. The entry, near the center, has a stoop with a shed roof, concrete stairs and a metal railing. East of the entry is a three-sided bay with a hipped-roof bay with three 8-light windows. To the west of the entry is a prominent brick exterior chimney and a picture window with the original wide wood surrounds. The west elevation has a three-part window with a one-over-one window flanked by two narrower one- over-one windows. The basement level has aluminum sliders. A deck has been added to the rear (south) elevation.
Cultural: The earliest known owners of this house (1928) were an engineer, John B. Hansen, and his wife, Alice. Phillip G. & Dorothy Hebner owned it in 1948; he worked at UW. Marcella Klinkosch, a clerk-typist at the State Departmentof Health, owned the house in 1958.
Legal: GLENWILDE ADD Parcel: 2804100105 Block: 2 Lot: 12-13 View: King Country Parcel Viewer