4703-Brooklyn-Ave.-THEN-mr July 12, 2014 2000 × 1355 Seattle Now & Then: A Brooklyn Home Taken for the Cleaners THEN: When it was built in 1902, this box home, with classic Ionic pillars at the porch, was set above the northwest corner of the freshly graded Brooklyn Avenue and 47th Street in the University District. (Courtesy, John Cooper)