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Join us at our Annual Award Celebration
May 23, 2024
May is Preservation month and this year we’re celebrating 53 Seattle Landmarks on Queen Anne! Join us at the Seattle Elks Lodge to honor the people and places that make Queen Anne such a wonderful historic neighborhood to call home.
The evening includes heavy hors d’oeuvres & beverages (beer, wine & non-alcoholic).
DATE AND TIME
Thurs, May 23, 2024
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
LOCATION
Seattle Elks Lodge #92
3014 3rd Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
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The Landmark Nomination Event
Benjamin McAdoo’s Queen Anne Pool
The landmark nomination of the Queen Anne Pool by the Queen Anne Historical Society creates a remarkable learning moment about historic preservation. The pool opened in 1977 as the last project of the transformative Forward Thrust levy. It is the work of Benjamin F. McAdoo (1920-1981), the first licensed African American architect in Washingon State. The nomination will be the focus of a talk by Spencer Howard and Katie Pratt at 6:00 p.m. on February 1, 2024, at the Queen Anne Public Library. Northwest Vernacular, Howard and Pratt’s firm, prepared the nomination that will soon be before the city’s Landmarks Preservation Board.
Historic preservation as expressed in Seattle’s landmark ordinance is not about saving beautiful things. Indeed beauty is not an easily shared value which Seattle’s preservation law doesn’t even mention. Only one of Seattle’s six criteria for landmark designation addresses the features of potential landmarks. It reads “ It embodies the distinctive visible characteristics of an architectual style, period, or method of construction.”
February 1, 2024
6:00 PM
Queen Anne Library, lower level.
Join us for this interesting talk. First come - first serve, space limited to 78 people.
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