Fort Lawton, Double Officers Quarters, Discovery Park, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: Designed to house two lieutenants' families, this duplex is identical in plan to Officers Quarters #642, #676, and #678. Completed May 31, 1904, from QMGO Plan No. 120A. Original cost: $13,500. Dimensions of main body: 56' x 30', rear kitchen wings: 14' x 18'. Two and one-half story and basement duplex of frame construction on sandstone and brick foundation. Lapped cedar siding. Asphalt shingles replaced original slate shingles on a cross-gable roof. A central chimney serves four interior fireplaces. Six-over-two, and two-over-two, double-hung sash in place, with "Palladian" and elliptical windows in attic. Full-width front porch with turned balusters and standing seam roof. Mirror interior with side hall plans. Coal-fired boiler for steam heat removed in 1940. Electric lights replaced mineral oil lamps ca. 1908. Maple flooring installed on first floor in 1937. Back porches partially enclosed.
Survey number: HABS WA-150-K
Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1908 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1940 Subsequent Work