House constructed by Long Building Company, Seattle, circa 1920

J. Stanley Long (1883-1959) was a contractor who built homes in Seattle neighborhoods for more than 50 years. Born in Ohio, Long studied law in Chicago, and moved to Seattle in 1906. In Seattle, rather than practicing law, Long focused his energies on the growth potential of the local housing market. Long built and sold his first house in 1906. In the 1910s his business, Long Building Company, developed residential neighborhoods on Seattle's First Hill, building bungalow-style Craftsman homes popular at the time. In the 1920s, Long adapted to the changing taste for revival styles; in 1926, hundreds came to the open house for "Victoria Village," 25 Tudor and French-Norman style homes built by Long in the Montlake neighborhood, on what is now E. Blaine Street between 19th Avenue E. and 22nd Avenue E. In a 1927 project sponsored by the Seattle Times and Home Owners Institute, Inc., Long built a "Master Modern Home" on Lake Washington Boulevard near 24th Avenue North, part of the "Varsity Villa" group of eight houses developed by Long in the neighborhood, and built in English and Spanish styles. Long also built the Blackstone Apartments, opening at 222 Summit Avenue in the Capitol Hill

Date

c. 1920

Photographer / author

Waters, Lorin B.

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

700 × 529 pixels

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