Across the street from the Queen Anne Branch of the Seattle Public Library, this pair of luxury townhomes stand out, thanks to their scale (a 7,200-square-foot lot), flat roof, and fresh Neoclassical-ish facade in a neighborhood full of Craftsman, Four Square, and (yes) Queen Anne–style homes.
Turns out, we have turn-of-the-century neighbor complaints to thank for that.
The Garfield Telephone Exchange, as it was first known, was built in 1905 by the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph company (which would eventually M&A itself into AT&T). The exchange was the first to open in Queen Anne and helped satisfy the rapidly growing appetite for telephone service: In 1889, the company had 318
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