94 results for: Furniture
Chest of drawers made by Henry Van Asselt, ca. 1872
Henry Van Asselt settled in the Seattle area in 1851 intending to make his living through agriculture. He later opened up a cabinet shop and his furniture was under demand by Seattle pioneers. Van Asselt made this chest of drawers out of fiddleback curly maple, a local wood that, when seasoned, becomes almost as hard as iron and at all…
ID Number:1945.1683.1
Date:Circa 1872
Side chair, 1830-1840
This chair belonged to the Mercer family. It traveled with them from Cadiz, Ohio, to Princeton, Illinois, in 1834, then across the plains to Seattle in 1852.
ID Number:1946.407.a
Date:1830-1840
Slant front desk section, 1850-1900
This section of a desk originally belonged to early Seattle settler Henry Yesler and it was received second hand by Mr. Henry Perry (H.P.) Grant sometime around 1900. Just prior to 1900, Grant opened a bicycle shop, Gifford and Grant, which, in 1904, morphed into the first gasoline powered automobile dealership in Seattle, "The Seattle Auto Co.," once located at…
ID Number:1946.556.1B
Date:1850-1900
The Foster spool bed, ca. 1850-1870
This bed is from the home of Joseph Foster, who came to the Pacifc Northwest from Ohio and settled on the Duwamish River in 1852. Foster, founder of the former town that bore his name (now Tukwila), was an early Washington Territory legislator and the first superintendent of schools in the area. The spools for this bed were hand-turned on…
ID Number:1951.38.c
Date:1850-1870
School desk from a University of Washington library, ca. 1880
The donor stated that this desk, in the Gothic Revival style, was from a previous library at the University of Washington. More research on this desk is necessary to better understand its provenance.
ID Number:1953.298.1
Date:1875-1900
Mahogany rocking chair from Standard Furniture Co. in Seattle, 1890
Standard Furniture Company was an early Seattle retailer of imported furniture that was part of the turn-of-the-century economic boom resulting from the Klondike Gold Rush. The enterprise constructed and opened a permanent high-rise on Second Avenue in 1908. This chair was from the Schrom family mansion located on Terry and Madison Avenues. John Schrom came to Seattle from Ohio in…
ID Number:1953.635
Date:1890
Claire Hammons miniature house, 12th scale model, 1945-1955
This miniature mansion was donated to MOHAI by Claire Bagley Hammons in 1955. Mrs. Hammons and her husband, Frederick Dent Hammons, had the house model designed by Seattle architect Joseph S. Cote (designer of the Green Lake Carnegie Library) and then spent more than a decade working on the detailed furnishings. Hand-made carpets, miniature paintings, clocks made from vintage watches,…
ID Number:1955.974.1.1
Date:1945-1955
End table with inlay and mother-of-pearl accents, 1915-1930
This Colonial Revival end table came from the Foster family. Joseph Foster, who came to the Pacifc Northwest from Ohio and settled on the Duwamish River in 1852. Foster, founder of the former town that bore his name (now Tukwila), was an early Washington Territory legislator and the first superintendent of schools in the area.
ID Number:1956.1058.7
Date:1915-1930
Card table from the Bertrand Collins collection, 1840-1860
This rosewood Classical Revival style game table was shipped around the Horn for Mrs. Jackling, of the Grennan-Jackling home in Utsaladdy on Camano Island. Mrs. Jackling was the mother of Mrs. John Collins, wife of the prominent businessman and Seattle mayor in 1873.
ID Number:1957.1257.4
Date:1840-1860
Bedstead, ca. 1865
This bedstead was brought to the new city of Tacoma in 1874 by George Neal Alexander when he traveled north with the railroad from Oregon. His house, one of the first built in Tacoma, was located where the Hotel Donnelly stands today. Later, Alexander came to Seattle and was the Street Commissioner from 1885-1888 and from 1894-1896.
ID Number:1957.1298.1
Date:1865-1885