1117 Minor Ave
Seattle, WA, USA

Henry H. Dearborn House

The Henry H. Dearborn House, also known as the Seattle Dearborn House is a single family residence in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. It was designed in 1904 by architect Henry Dozier, and building was completed in 1907 for Seattle real estate developer Henry H. Dearborn. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Seattle Landmark by the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board. As of 2021, the building is used as the headquarters of Historic Seattle.

The Dearborn house is two and a half stories in an American Foursquare style, with stucco exterior. The house has an enclosed veranda and an out building originally built as stables. In 1953 the house was converted to a medical office, and subsequently into office space.

National Register of Historic Places - Henry H. Dearborn House

Statement of Significance:

The Henry H. Dearborn House, completed in 1907, is one of four substantial single-family residences remaining in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood from the period 1883-1910, when the western slope and the crest of the hill became the desired location for the homesites of Seattle's first families. The development of this first upscale residential neighborhood signaled the coming of age of Seattle society at a time when the population of the city was exploding, and pioneer families were establishing themselves as arbiters of taste and developers of social and cultural institutions. Henry H. Dearborn, an East Coast investment banker, relocated to Seattle in the 1880s, and during the following two decades he was instrumental in the development of the city's tidelands and influenced the direction of transcontinental railroad development south of the city's core. The house Dearborn built among the mansions of First Hill represents the taste and inclinations of a well-traveled entrepreneur, a man of wealth who was secure in his achievements and particular in his demands.