Kim Turner

From the mid-1980’s until 2021, Kim served on the board of the Queen Anne Historical Society assisting with the society’s book, Community on the Hill, and the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Tour which he still conducts. Kim’s Musings, which appeared for decades in The Cobblestone, the Society’s newsletter, attracted wild enthusiasm. As one admirer noted, “They are [the] most important thing the Society does.”

On the Boards
100 W Roy Street

Since acquiring Redding Hall from ACT Theatre in 1998, On the Boards has protected and maintained this 1912 historically significant Queen Anne building while delighting audiences with diverse and thought-provoking performance art.

Otto Luther House / Dr. Myrna Capp
903 W Fulton Street

The Capp family has carefully preserved this historically significant home that was once owned by longtime Queen Anne High School principal Otto Luther. The single-family house on Queen Anne Boulevard, with its broad sweeping roof and dominant verge boards, welcomes people to the top of Queen Anne at one of its most prominent points of arrival.

Queen Anne Exchange / Faul Co.
1529 4th Ave West

Built as a telephone exchange and used as a storage facility under city ownership, this marvelous commercial structure has been sensitively restored and converted to 25 units of much needed rental housing.

MarQueen Hotel / Ray Russo
600 Queen Anne Ave N

Constructed in 1918 to house former blacksmiths training to assemble Ford cars on South Lake Union, the MarQueen has been well maintained and converted into a boutique hotel that anchors the neighborhood at the base of the Counterbalance.

Bleitz Funeral Home / Pastakia + Associates
316 Florentia Street

The Bleitz Funeral Home is a designated city landmark whose interior has been totally rebuilt while the historic features of its exterior have been restored and a well-designed new building added on the adjacent parking lot. It is a perfect example of the way in which historic preservation can support new development.