William E. Boeing House, Mediterranean Revival mansion in The Highlands, Shoreline, US.
The William E. Boeing House is a Mediterranean Revival residence in The Highlands community in Shoreline, Washington. It has white stucco walls, a red tile roof, and eight fireplaces, and sits on a wooded bluff that looks out over Puget Sound.
Architect Charles Bebb designed the house between 1912 and 1913 for William Boeing, who founded the company that bears his name. Boeing left the property in 1954, after which it passed through several hands over the following decades.
The house sits within The Highlands, a private residential community north of Seattle that was developed for the region's wealthy families around the turn of the century. Walking through the grounds gives a sense of how prosperous residents of that era built their lives away from the city.
The property is inside a gated private community and is not open to the public. Those interested in Mediterranean Revival architecture can explore similar examples elsewhere in the Seattle area or consult historical records and archives.
Boeing originally named the estate Aldarra, and in 1950 he donated it to a children's hospital before it was later sold to a broadcasting executive. The original name still appears in old maps and local records of the area.
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