• Style: American Foursquare
• Architect: James H. Schack
• Builder: Waddingham & Arveson

Description

On July 21, 1903, Edward P. Ederer received permit #21673 to have this house, which was architected by James H Schack, constructed by Waddingham & Arveson for $4,000. It is an early American Foursquare house, with a sandstone porch supported by four rectangular columns. It has leaded windows. Two large double-hung windows face the street on each of the first two floors, with a set of four smaller leaded windows in between on the second floor. The first floor has a bay window on the south side. In 2007, Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods survey noted that the original siding was likely replaced, but judged the overall impact to be slight. It judged the plan and windows to be intact, and considered the property to be located in a potential historic district.

History

Edward P. Ederer, the original owner of this house, moved to Seattle with his business partner, Andrew Weber. The 1900 Census shows that their families had previously been neighbors in Chicago, and they chose to live near one another here as well on Millionaire's Row (with the Webers at 805 14th Ave. E.). Ederer was vice-president of Seattle Net & Twine Manufacturing Company, but later became founder and president of Ederer Engineering Company. The latter company specialized in crane manufacturing, initially serving the logging industry in Seattle. Later it became an international company, building cranes for nuclear power plants, NASA, and even the crane-derived mechanism that opens and closes the roof of T-Mobile Park, Seattle's baseball stadium. Ederer, LLC still operates in Seattle, but now as a wholly owned subsidiary of PaR Systems. Arthur F. Ederer, Edward's son, became president of the engineering firm after his father's retirement, and he too lived in this house. Edward was also a well-regarded musician, and he served as the first music director for the church that was Seattle's temporary cathedral before the St. James Cathedral could be built.