http://pauldorpat.com/?p=5865 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:42:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://pauldorpat.com/?p=5865&cpage=1#comment-642 David Jeffers Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:11:51 +0000 http://pauldorpat.com/?p=5865#comment-642 I was able to find your house (306 1/2 Minor) and this block using SPL’s online access to Digital Sanborn Maps. Volume 4 (1905-1950), sheet 485 shows four houses and a small garage (behind your house) on this lot (306-310 Minor). The lot on the southeast corner (301-305 Pontius) had five houses and the third lot to the north (315-317 Pontius) shows six! They must have been 300-500 square feet each! In this case, Sanborn offers no resolution to the question of the build dates, but provides a nice footprint. Cascade is one of those neighborhoods between neighborhoods many of us didn’t recognize until the city began designating everything with signage. A significant neighborhood history waits to be told, I suspect. I’ve never identified a Cascade neighborhood movie theater. Wasn’t there a professional baseball field nearby before Dugsdale built in the Rainier Valley? I was able to find your house (306 1/2 Minor) and this block using SPL’s online access to Digital Sanborn Maps. Volume 4 (1905-1950), sheet 485 shows four houses and a small garage (behind your house) on this lot (306-310 Minor). The lot on the southeast corner (301-305 Pontius) had five houses and the third lot to the north (315-317 Pontius) shows six! They must have been 300-500 square feet each! In this case, Sanborn offers no resolution to the question of the build dates, but provides a nice footprint.
Cascade is one of those neighborhoods between neighborhoods many of us didn’t recognize until the city began designating everything with signage. A significant neighborhood history waits to be told, I suspect. I’ve never identified a Cascade neighborhood movie theater. Wasn’t there a professional baseball field nearby before Dugsdale built in the Rainier Valley?

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