WAUDoseFamilyPHColl353.xmlGuide to the Dose Family Photograph Collection 1903-1912Dose Family Photograph CollectionFunding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the HumanitiesSpecial Collections, University of Washington Libraries© 2008 (Last modified: 10/11/2024)
Seattle, WA 98195
Finding aid written in English.Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard).University of Washington Libraries, Special CollectionsPH0353Dose (Family : Dose, Charles P.)Dose family photograph collection 1903-191246 photographic prints (1 box, 1 oversize folder)Collection materials are in English. Photographs of the members of the Mt. Baker Improvement Club, the Dose family, the Dose real estate offices, and homes from the Dose Addition in Mt. Baker Park

Charles P. Dose was a German immigrant who had a real estate business originally based in Chicago. In 1871 Dose and his partners, the Fricke Brothers, bought a 40-acre piece of land on Lake Washington in Seattle. Dose moved his family to Seattle in 1898 and began working with his son, Charles C. Dose to develop the land. They platted the Dose Addition in 1906 on 10 acres along South Walker Street in the area that would later become part of Seattle’s Mount Baker District. The first house was built at 31st Avenue and Walker Street. The Dose family lived in Mount Baker Park and Mrs. Charles C. Dose (Phoebe Dose) was instrumental in the creation of the Mount Baker Improvement Club.

The Mount Baker neighborhood is located along Lake Washington, southeast of downtown Seattle. The area was developed after 1900 following the construction of the Rainier Avenue Electric Street Railway in the 1890s. The nearby Dose Addition, planned and plotted in 1906, was actually conceived of earlier than the Mt. Baker sub-division, which was planned in 1907 by the Hunter Tract Improvement Company. The Mount Baker Park area (including Mount Baker Park Addition and the Dose Addition) was one of Seattle’s earliest planned residential communities and made an attempt to integrate the landscape into its design as well as to remain an exclusively residential area. The houses were all built between 1905 and 1929 and encompass a variety of styles.

The Mount Baker Improvement Club was formed in 1909 and claims to be the oldest continuously active community club in the country. By 1910 there were almost 50 members who were dedicated to such tasks as acquiring lighting, police protection, neighborhood beautification and providing a community social activities.

The collection consists of photographs of the members of the Mt. Baker Improvement Club, the Dose family, the Dose real estate offices, and homes from the Dose Addition in Mt. Baker Park.

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Donated by Julia Graham, May 1992.

Processed by Lindsae Long, 2006 and Marion Brown in 2007.

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C. P. Dose Realty1/11Dose family members in front of real estate office at Walker Street with a car parked nearby 1903

"C.C. Dose in first Buick in Seattle"

1/12C.P. Dose and Company Real Estate and Loans building on LaSalle Street showing group of men and boy standing out in front, Chicago1870? Houses in Dose Terrace built by C. C. DoseOS33Panoramic view from corner of Dose Terrace and 34th Avenue South1910? 1/24-73111 Dose Terrace1909 1/28-9Beachwoods House1909 1/2103210 Dose Terrace 1910

"Built by C. C. Dose for C. P."

1/2113211 Dose Terrace1910?

"Lot 70 x 85 Street paved with vitrified brick. Colonial Residence, 12 rooms, including Billiard and chauffeurs rooms in basement and servants room with bath in attic and garage to match- also electric fixtures and stationary vacuum cleaner. Price $15,000. Will take $12,500 without above mentioned additional improvements, having 9 rooms completed."

Houses, probably in Dose Terrace 1/312Street and houses between 1909 and 1910? 1/313Street corner and houses in the Mt. Baker neighborhood between 1909 and 1910? 1/314-15House at 806 37th Avenue1910

This residence was built by Charles C. Dose in 1910.

1/316-29Housesbetween 1909 and 1910? Capitol Hill 1/430House at 1422 Mercer Street, Capitol Hill between 1909 and 1910? Mount Baker Improvement ClubOS331Mount Baker Improvement Club Christmas MeetingF. H. NowellSeattle, Washington1909 1/532Members of Mount Baker Improvement Club at banquet1910 OS333Men of Mount Baker Improvement Club on New Year's DayNowell and Rognon, Seattle, WAJanuary 1, 1912 OS334Men of the Mount Baker Improvement Club on New Year's Day Nowell and Rognon, Seattle, WAJanuary 1, 1912

On the reverse is an article entitled Mount Bakerites Call in a Body

1/535Members of Mount Baker Improvement ClubJacobs Photoshop, Seattle, WAbetween 1909 and 1912? Dose Family Photos1/636C. C. Dose and four women in decorated carbetween 1908 and 1912? 1/637C. C. Dose home at 2203 31st Avenue South and Walker Street. C. C. Dose in Buick outside1908 1/6382 women and a girl in Buickbetween 1908 and 1912?

Probably outside the C. C. Dose home

1/639Man, woman and girl near automobilebetween 1908 and 1912?

Probably outside the C. C. Dose home

1/640Girl outside garage at Dose home at 31st and Walker 1906 1/641C. C. Dose in snow outside house at 31st and Walker1908

"Terrible snow"

1/642Woman outside chicken house at 31st and Walker1908 1/643Man looking in engine of carbetween 1908 and 1912? 1/644Two men in a Buickbetween 1908 and 1912? 1/645Group of children in front of housebetween 1908 and 1912? 1/646Men playing badmintonbetween 1908 and 1912?Gannett