Fred Anhalt

Fred Anhalt (1896 in Minnesota - 1996) [ [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/seattle_history/articles/metropolist_p2.html A small profile in the "Seattle Times"] ] was an architect who constructed many distinguished apartment buildings in Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington in the 1920s and early 1930s. In 1993, the Seattle Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) awarded Anhalt an honorary membership.

After a career as a salesman, Anhalt and partner Jerome B. Hardcastle, a former butcher, built the Western Building & Leasing Company in 1925, though he had no training as an architect. [ [http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=121 Entry at historylink.com] ]

He was known for constructing bungalow-style apartments and giving them luxurious architectural touches, such as Tudor stylings. They are often oriented around a central courtyard.

During the Great Depression, he declared bankruptcy. After the Depression, his firm went bankrupt and Anhalt was forced to design smaller scale projects. He ultimately left the field in 1942. [ [http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=121 Entry at historylink.com] ]

From Lawrence Kreisman's booklet, "Apartments by Anhalt":

"What made Anhalt's buildings succeed is not their particular style or size, or complexity. It is the style of living encouraged therein -- the creation, through design, of an enclosed community that, while it relates to the street and neighborhood, also provides a common green, an outdoor living room that is the sole province of the tenants."

Buildings in Seattle

* Anhalt Arms
* Twin Gables
* Belmont Court
* Oak Manor [ [http://www.arthurleej.com/a-OakManor.html Arthurleej.com entry] ]
* "Ten-O-Five", which featured Seattle's first underground parking deck for an apartment building [ [http://vroomjournal.com/articles/trekkerbh.php Entry on 1005 (Ten-O-Five) and 730 Belmont] ]
* East Roy Street (1929-1930)

References

External links

* [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/neighbors/capitolhill/album1.html Photo of Anhalt in the courtyard of his building at 1005 E. Roy St. in the "Post Intelligencer"]
* [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/seattle_history/articles/metropolist_p2.html A small profile in the "Seattle Times"]
* [http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=121 Entry at historylink.com]
* [http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/OCHSHC.html University of Washington Press book about Seattle architecture that features Anhalt]
* [http://www.arthurleej.com/a-OakManor.html Arthurleej.com entry about Oak Manor]
* [http://vroomjournal.com/articles/trekkerbh.php Entry on 1005 (Ten-O-Five) and 730 Belmont]