
Seattle’s story will be informed as a sequence of firsts. Developments that had been groundbreaking then however, due to our metropolis’s rapid-fire fee of change, really feel quotidian a long time later. The 12 months 1904 introduced Seattle’s first steel-framed skyscraper; 1971, its first Starbucks. And, in 1909, Seattle debuted its first all-brick firehouse, house to its very first motor-driven fireplace engines, per Historic Seattle.

Like so lots of these Seattle trailblazers, Fireplace Station No. 25 appears to be like somewhat totally different than it did again then. The arched home windows and doorways attribute of the unique constructing stay; the hayloft, constructed to accommodate horse-drawn tools earlier than the Seattle Fireplace Division transitioned to motor autos, doesn’t.

After town decommissioned the station in 1970, an actual property developer constrained by a protecting easement remodeled the house into condos—12 in complete at present, and in response to the itemizing agent every one is totally different from the following.

This specific unit flaunts its uncommon historical past by an eclectic mixture of types and architectural eras. Parquet flooring from the unique late-Seventies renovation paired with blocky, Craftsman-esque wooden options and slab-marble bogs give the apartment a heat, sturdy really feel.

The first bed room encompasses a sizable walk-in closet and an en suite rest room with a nook tub; the secondary bed room, a novel raised workplace nook full with coiled fireplace hose and referential brick flooring. Industrial-inspired shelving, uncovered pipes, and a bright-red entrance door additionally trace on the constructing’s origins.

Positioned on the border of First Hill and Capitol Hill, the encompassing neighborhood provides fashionable conveniences that replicate simply how a lot town has modified all through the hearth station’s lifetime. Amazon-owned Complete Meals lets consumers pay with their palm a pair blocks down the road. A couple of minutes’ stroll away, Starbucks’ Seattle Roastery commemorates native historical past simply 9 blocks from the place all of it started.
This place has seen all of it.

Itemizing Quick Info
1406 Harvard Avenue #8, Seattle, WA 98122
Measurement: 1,175 sq. toes, 2 bedrooms, 2 bogs
Listing Value: $875,000
Listing Date: 1/7/2025
Itemizing Agent: Aaron De Nunzio, Windermere Actual Property Midtown