Fort Lawton, Quartermaster Stables, Discovery Park, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: The first stables constructed on the post. Contains original stable features such as lift and haydrop. Converted to warehouse ca. 1940. Completed April 24, 1902, from QMGO Plan No. 37-B. Original cost: $2,941. A two-story frame structure on a brick foundation. Dimensions of original (1902): 60' x 33', northerly extension (1907): 51' x 33'. Gable roof with ventilators, open eaves, scrolled rafter ends, and original slate shingles with an aerial identification sign "Fort Lawton." Most original sash and loading doors intact. Original brick, concrete and clay stable floor below a 2" plank warehouse floor added ca. 1940, posted 2' above original interior has 22 stall spaces, framed haydrops now floored over, one metal-lined grain room in loft, and a hand-operated lift manufactured by the Warner Elevator Manufacturing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. Two loading doors added on west elevation at level of warehouse floor (ca. 1940), end doors cut off at new floor level.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-36
Survey number: HABS WA-150-V
Building/structure dates: 1902 Initial Construction