Ask Your Seattle Real Estate Agents About Historic Housing

The Carpenter Gothic houses from 812-828 Twenty-third Avenue date back to 1892, when the Seattle Washington real estate was slated as low-income Victorian housing. Today the four row houses – designated as Official City of Seattle Landmarks in December 1979 — are owned by private citizens.

Ask your Seattle real estate agents to take you for a stroll along Federal Avenue East, just east of Tenth Avenue East, where you will see some of the most stylish turn-of-the-century architecture the city has to offer. The street is packed with everything from Spanish and Dutch Colonials to English Tudors, Normans, French Provincial manors, English Country Cottages and Mediterranean Villas. Large Craftsman style homes and Classic Box architecture sprouted up in stark contrast to its more ornate neighbors. Federal Avenue East surely has one of the most diverse housing stocks in the nation, Seattle real estate agents say.

Following WWII, industry began leaving the area, which led many buildings to languish in a state of disrepair. Pioneer Square was rescued by the Historic Seattle organization and wealthy philanthropists in the 1960s. Pike Place Market was saved from demolition in the 1970s. The City Landmarks program began in the 1970s to protect valuable Seattle Washington real estate like Pike Place, the International District, Ballard Avenue, Columbia City, the Harvard-Belmont and Fort Lawton.