Seaview Hall
If you’d like to explore Seattle’s architectural past, don’t miss the Southwest Seattle Historical Society’s 2006 Homes with History Tour this coming Saturday, May 20. This year’s tour includes ten homes of architectural and historic significance. It’s a self-guided tour which means you pick up your map and explore any and all of the homes at your own pace between 10am and 4pm on May 20. A guide at each home will review its history for you. For ticket information, go to www.loghousemuseum.org or stop by the Log House Museum at 3003 61st Avenue SW in the Alki neighborhood to buy tickets (a good excuse to visit it if you haven’t been there already).
Historic Seaview Hall, located at 4004 59th Avenue SW in West Seattle, is one of the homes on tour this year. Susan Shorett is co-owner of Seaview Hall, as well as a sponsor of this year’s tour and vintage home specialist with Windermere Real Estate. We spent some time with her recently to discuss the major renovations that are in the works at this beautiful historic log cabin. Click the link below to listen to the interview, or subscribe to our feed with your favorite podcatcher to have the latest audio from Seattle Real Estate Talk automatically downloaded to your mobile music device.
To contact Susan for more information about Seaview Hall or other vintage homes in Seattle, you can email her at sshorett@windermere.com or call her at 206.478.2417.
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Urban planning, architecture, and alternative housing concepts are key ingredients to creating more livable cities. Starting Saturday, you’ll be able to check out some of the latest trends and ideas in affordable housing at the Museum of History and Industry, (MOHAI). The new traveling exhibit from the National Building Museum in Washington D.C., aims to dispel outdated, negative stereotypes of affordable housing projects and demonstrate how, if well-designed, they can be an attractive asset to all communities. It even includes a few local examples to prove its point. The exhibit runs from June 25 – August 28, 2005. Here’s the press release from MOHAI:
Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry will this summer host an exhibition touring the nation which demonstrates that affordable homes can be well designed-and benefit the communities in which they are built and the residents who live there. The exhibition, Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset, opens Saturday, June 25 and showcases energy-efficient, durable, economical to maintain, and aesthetically appealing homes that are within reach of working Americans. Affordable Housing, an exhibition organized by the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., will be on display at MOHAI through Sunday, August 28.
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