Ward House

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The Ward House is a house on Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington. Having been built in 1882, it is the oldest house in the city.

Designed, built, and originally owned by George W. Ward, it became vacant in 1974 and was scheduled for demolition in the mid 1980s. The owners, Dr. and Mrs. Michael Buckley, donated the structure to Historic Seattle, a nonprofit architectural preservation organization chartered as a public development authority by the city. Historic Seattle in turn sold it to David Leen, a local lawyer, for $7,500. On April 6, 1986, Leen moved the Ward House from its First Hill lot on Boren Avenue between Union and Pike Streets to its current location at the corner of E. Denny Way and Belmont Avenue E. It is currently occupied by his law offices.

[edit] External links

• Historic Seattle's Ward House page
• "Seattle's Oldest House Gets a New Home" from Historic Preservation magazine