Property Watch: A Unique Victorian in Queen Anne

There are a couple of things that immediately stand out about this Queen Anne Victorian home in, appropriately, Lower Queen Anne: A) It has a giant turret, and B) It’s the only detached home on the block.

Even as everything has changed around it, though, it’s remarkably well-preserved as just a pocket of 1891 in the middle of a twenty-first-century sea. It helps that the home, commonly known as the Ankeny-Gowey House, is a city landmark—and that it’s incredibly pretty. During a 1980s restoration, a Historic Seattle staffer observed that “it looks like a little wedding cake.”

It’s also unique among the Queen Annes on Queen

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