For sale: Home by apprentice William Beye Fyfe - (Seattle, WA)

[DavidC]

(according to John Geiger's Apprentice List, William Fyfe joined Taliesin on June 1st, 1932)

Seattle Home Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Protege Offers Jaw-Dropping Views for $1.8M

7834 56th Pl NE, Seattle, WA 98115


David

[jay]

Wow that's a great one..!
The living room is like an economy-version of the open double-story volume seen in Glore, Turkel, Bachman, etc.
And yet 1951 was before any of those houses.....?
Also before Milton Stricker set up shop in Seattle.

Fun fact: The house is near Magnuson Park, which is famous for its (bordering) home of the "sound garden".
[Which is where the band got its name from.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_Garden

[SDR]

Delightful. The rather bland but splendid view seems to have dominated the design, rightly so. Think of the sunsets---or is it sunrises ?

A minor surprise is that the fireplace, which might have been placed further along the back wall, within the low-ceilinged snug, is instead given to the whole double-height space . . .

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[Roderick Grant]

The near view may be "bland," but the distant view of the mountains is "jaw-dropping"!
I personally don't like ceilings finished in tiles like these; looks cheap.
The door by the fireplace should have extended to the widow transom.

[Matt2]

They don't call it View Ridge for nothing. Spectacular sunrises. Lots of great wood in the home and interesting double-rafters which was popular with other MCM architects in the region. That is a lot of glass to clean though. Clearly, a home built when heating oil cost pennies.