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Hand-hewn cedar log from homestead cabin built by Albert Burrows, 1883
Albert S. Burrows was a homesteader who built his cabin on the shores of Lake Washington in 1882, at Killarney, on the south side of Bellevue.
ID Number:1985.12.3
Date:1883
Broadax, ca. 1850
This broadax features a plaque dedicated to Jesse B. Warren, presumably a cohort of Albert Burrows who built one of the first log cabins north of Bellevue back in 1883.
ID Number:1985.12.7
Date:1810-1913
Set of five house moving log rollers, ca. 1880
These rollers were made from a maple tree that was cut down in 1880 at what is today 14th and Jackson in Seattle. The wood was airdried for several years before being cut into rollers, which were used to move houses during the Denny Regrade in the early 1900s, and later for the Dearborn cut and Atlantic Street overpass projects…
ID Number:2011.43.1
Date:Circa 1880
Painting by Lockwood Dennis, "House on Capitol Hill," 1977
Lockwood "Woody" Dennis (1937-2012) was born in Portland, Oregon, but lived in Port Townsend, Washington, for 37 years. He was inclined to paint both natural and industrial scenes from the Northwest, California, Colorado, Africa, and Japan. In this work, featuring a house in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, one can see Lockwood's influences which were primarily Matisse and Cezanne,…
ID Number:2013.56.4
Date:1977
Seattle Times and American Institute of Architects (AIA) Home of the Month Award presented to Benjamin F. McAdoo, Jr., 1957
From the 1950s-1970s, Benjamin McAdoo (1920-1981) was the first Black person to own an architecture firm in Seattle and was the first Black man to practice architecture in Washington State. Born in Pasadena, California, he earned a BA at the University of Washington in 1946. He was President of the Seattle Chapter of the NAACP from 1964-1968 during which he…
ID Number:2018.85.1
Date:1957
Certificate of Life Membership plaque presented to Benjamin F. McAdoo, Jr. from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1971
Benjamin McAdoo (1920-1981) was the first Black person to own an architecture firm in Seattle and was the first Black man to practice architecture in Washington State. Born in Pasadena, California, he earned a BA at the University of Washington in 1946. He was President of the Seattle Chapter of the NAACP from 1964-1968 during which he broadcast a weekly…
ID Number:2018.85.2
Date:1971
Architectural business sign for "Benjamin F. McAdoo & Company," ca. 1970s
From the 1950s-1970s, Benjamin McAdoo (1920-1981) was the first Black person to own an architecture firm in Seattle and was the first Black man to practice architecture in Washington State. Born in Pasadena, California, he earned a BA at the University of Washington in 1946. He was President of the Seattle Chapter of the NAACP from 1964-1968 during which he…
ID Number:2018.85.3
Date:Circa 1970
Toolbox owned by Benjamin F. McAdoo, Jr., ca. 1940
From the 1950s-1970s, Benjamin McAdoo (1920-1981) was the first Black person to own an architecture firm in Seattle and was the first Black man to practice architecture in Washington State. Born in Pasadena, California, he earned a BA at the University of Washington in 1946. He was President of the Seattle Chapter of the NAACP from 1964-1968 during which he…
ID Number:2018.85.4
Date:Circa 1940