The jaunty tilt of Capitol Hill’s famous Egan House.
The shape is unmistakable: the triangular silhouette of the Egan House sits just below a lit-up Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral on Capitol Hill, amid the church’s eponymous greenbelt. Today, we call the 1958 home sculptural. When reporters first caught wind of it, according to preservation nonprofit Historic Seattle, they compared it to a “giant wedge of cheese.”
Robert Reichert, the architect behind retired Rear-Admiral Willard Egan’s home, was no stranger to ruffling feathers. In contrast to his function-focused contemporaries, he felt like “an unwanted, self-styled dissenter” among fellow faculty at the University of Washington’s College of Architecture, per
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