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Bayberry apartments - 6700 24th ave NE
By Tom Heuser, November 3, 2022
Carl Gustav Leander (1867–1922) designed and built the Bayberry Apartments, completed in 1912, for the owners August Anderson and his wife Anna S. Anderson. Between 1912 and 1943, it functioned as a mixed-use building with apartments above street-level commercial units. Commercial occupants were typically grocery and dry goods stores. Around 1924, a one-story addition was constructed onto the north side of the building for use as a barbershop or beauty parlor. After 1937, all store units were vacant except for the barbershop. In 1943, the federal government leased the building through the National Housing Agency and had its store units (including the barbershop) converted to apartments, likely as housing for war workers. Since 1944, the building has functioned entirely as a multi-family residence. The building’s many owners have occupied it as either a residence or their place of business while others have owned it as an investment.
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Original Owners August and Anna S. Anderson
Available records reveal only scant details about who the Andersons were. Most likely of Swedish origin, the couple first purchased the property in July 1908. At the time, they lived nearby at 6710 30th Avenue NW in a cottage (pictured above) for which August had filed a construction permit in March 1908.[1] However, by the time August filed the construction permit for the Bayberry Apartments in December 1911, he and Anna were living at 6302 22nd Avenue NW where, just two months prior, Anna had posted a want-ad in the Seattle Times classified section seeking a "Christian Science lady" as a partner in an unspecified small business venture.[2] It is unknown whether Anna formed any partnership. Her husband, however, formed one instead.
After the designer-builder Carl Leander completed the Bayberry Apartments in 1912, August opened a meat market with Carl Kullgren (1862–unknown) called "Kullgren & Anderson" in the north commercial unit of the building (6702 24th Avenue NW).[3] The Andersons moved into one of the apartments above the store the following year.[4] Kullgren & Anderson worked here in connection with the building's second commercial tenant Salmon Bay Grocery, but the arrangement was short-lived.[5] The Anderson's sold the building to Frans A. Carlstrom and his wife Ida, but lingered there for another year, while Kullgren went and set up his own grocery business at 4619 Phinney Avenue.[6] By February 1916, the August offered up the meat market business for sale announcing that he and Anna were leaving the city.[7] Their associates Salmon Bay Grocery went on to outlast them for over twenty years.
Note: the remainder of this article will consist of information taken verbatim from a SEPA Appendix A Report I prepared on the building in 2022. When I have time, I will return to this story and flesh out the details.
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Ownership Timeline
1908 – August (grocer) & Anna S. Anderson
1915 – Edwin Young
1916 – Frans A. (janitor) and Ida M. Carlstrom (dry goods proprietor)
1924 – Bjarni O. (owner, Cascade Pharmacy) & Alephi Johannson
1924 – Chris & Erna L. Christianson
1931 – Erna L. Christianson
1943 – Edward & Hattie Potjer, grocer
1959 – Edward & Hattie Potjer et al via Assignment of Contract & Deed (AC&D)
1970 – Bank of California et al via AC&D
1988 – Alaska Sunshine Products, Inc
Timeline of Known Commercial Occupants
At 6700 24th Ave NW
1912-13 – (Carl G.) Kulgren & Anderson grocery
1914-37 – Salmon Bay Grocery
Founded by Ellis R. Peterson, 7046 23rd Ave NW and Emil Peterson, 6739 15th Ave NW
Business acquired in 1921 by Job L.G. Meyer, 6744 Jones Ave NW and Frank X. Trinko, 6710 24th Ave NW.
At 6704 24th Ave NW
1922-24 – Mrs. Ida M Carlstrom, notions (sewing accessories)
1925-29 – Mrs. Mary E. Hibbard, dry goods
At 6706 24th Ave NW
1924 – Anders Anderson, barber
1925 – Harry Bauermeister, barber
1928-29 – Agnes Johnson, beauty parlor
1933-43 – Ernest T. Tonneson, barber
Notable Occupants
According to his 1961 Seattle PI obituary, Job L.G. Meyer was an electrical engineer and musician who did electrical work for the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, designed a ferry capable of carrying monorail cars, and was director of the Northeast Seattle Band and Seattle Park Band. Meyer left the Salmon Bay Grocery business circa 1925. According to Trinko’s 1946 Seattle PI obituary, he was a charter member of the Seattle chapter of Turn Verein, a German culture and gymnastics club and a cofounder of Sahalie Ski Club at Snoqualmie Pass.
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Notable Designer
William G. Brust, the designer of the 1944 remodel, earned an architecture degree from University of Pennsylvania in 1907 with training in the Beaux Arts style and came to Seattle in 1910. He worked for other notable architects such as E.F. Champney and John Graham Sr and later became a partner in the firm of Stephens, Stephens & Brust. He started his own practice in 1926. He specialized in churches, but also designed a variety of other building types. He retired in 1961 and died in 1969.
Bibliography
City of Seattle Department of Constructions and Inspections Microfilm Library
Permit # 139424, December 22, 1911
Permit # 139472, December 22, 1911
Permit # 143219, May 9, 1912
Permit # 174286, November 30, 1918
Permit # 359216, December 1, 1943
Property Abstract for Block 152 of Salmon Bay Park Addition
Houser, Michael C., “Brust, William G. Jr.,” Docomomo wewa.
https://www.docomomo-wewa.org/architect/brust-william-g-jr/
King County Department of Assessments
https://blue.kingcounty.com/Assessor/eRealProperty/Detail.aspx?ParcelNbr=7518508880
Puget Sound Regional Archives (PSRA) Real Property Record Cards and Photographs.
R.L. Polk & Co., Inc. Publishers, Polk’s Seattle City Directory, Issues 1912-1943 via Ancestry.com
and Historic Seattle.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer via Seattle Public Library
“Alaska Grocer Dies In Seattle,” June 26, 1946, p. 14.
“J.L.G. Meyer, Suquamish, Dies,” December 18, 1961, p. 2.
Wikipedia.com, “Turners,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turners
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Last updated: November 10, 2024.
To cite this article:
CMS Bibliography:
Heuser, Tom G. “Bayberry Apartments - 6700 24th Avenue NW.” In T.G. Heuser Company Encyclopedia of Pacific Northwest History. Seattle, WA: T.G. Heuser Company, November 3, 2022.
CMS Footnote:
Tom G. Heuser, “Bayberry Apartments - 6700 24th Avenue NW,” in T.G. Heuser Company Encyclopedia of Pacific Northwest History, (Seattle, WA: T.G. Heuser Company, November 3, 2022).
SAA Bibliography:
Heuser, Tom G. 2022. "Bayberry Apartments - 6700 24th Avenue NW." In T.G. Heuser Company Encyclopedia of Pacific Northwest History. Seattle, WA. 3 November.
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