Please explain the corner Mercer/Republican address. Mercer and Republican corners are 2-3 miles from the 516 E. 13th Ave address.
The 13th Ave. address is a sports field for Seattle University (not U of W).
The Mercer and Republican area is commercial. Interesting is that on the corner is the Queen Anne Community School and the Bill Gates Foundation Headquarters.
Can't tell if that house was at either address.
I’ve got some parcel maps I’ll dig out to show you where this property is located.
First off, that address does not exist any more. The building was torn down in the mid 1980’s. Lot 9 and several other lots were amalgamated into one large new lot and an apartment building was erected on the site.
Seattle streets are very screwy and to compound how confusing they are when looking at this Capitol Hill address is that fact that in 1961 Seattle re-oriented all the streets in the area so that that address was designated as “East”. Prior to ‘61, it was “North” or “No.” which was the way to express it back then. The property card that was displayed at some of the web sites along with the supposed photo of the old building on lot 9 actually had the address both ways. The top card that they showed with the articles had the address as “East”. The supplemental cards from the city archive, such as the one on the garage, still had the address as “North.”
The platt or block that contains lot 9 is bounded by 12th Ave. E., 13th Ave. E., E. Republican St. and E. Mercer St.
I thought that crossed out Mercer was quite odd. If Charlette typed “Mercer” but meant to type “Republican” why didn’t she just backspace and erase “Mercer”? No, instead she went to the trouble of using html to show “Mercer” crossed out. I’ve pondered that and it makes no sense but was obviously quite deliberate on her part.
Another odd thing is that Google Maps will display an address if you type in the old address of the building formerly on lot 9 - the 516 address - even though it NO LONGER EXISTS.
I’ll go find that map now.