Richard Hugo House, named for the Northwest poet Richard Hugo (1923-1982), was originally located in an old frame house at the corner of Eleventh Avenue and East Olive Street, in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The building, built in 1902, had originally housed a mortuary and funeral Home, and later, the New City Theater. Hugo House was founded in 1996 by writers Linda Breneman (Jaech), Frances McCue, and Andrea Lewis to provide support and resources for writers and readers.

In 2016, the building was demolished, and the Hugo House organization moved temporarily to a building at nearby First Hill. It returned in 2018 to occupy the ground floor of a new apartment building at its original location and continues to be a part of Seattle’s literary scene.

Caption information source: "Hugo House: Our History and Future", hugohouse.org/about/history-and-future, retrieved May 17, 2024.

Caption information source: "Hugo House Makes a Good Move—To First Hill, Temporarily", Rich Smith, The Strange, January 6, 2016.