200 West 10th Street
Built 1926 |
Style: Tudor Revival
#3 on the Map
Deed: Recorded July 1, 1926. Consideration: $10.00. Erick O. Astrom and Teckla A. Astrom, husband and wife, to Anna Brower.
The Brower House, later the Reid House
This house was designed by architect Roy Dobell, who also designed the Morck house (on K Street between Ninth and Tenth). The house was built in 1926 and David Brower and his family moved in in 1927. Mr. Brower had a women’s clothing store in what is now the Grand Heron at Heron and I Street. From 1940-1980 the house was occupied by the Reids, Harold and Marie, and their three children. Harold was a general contractor, son of the architect of the original City Hall, St. Mary’s Church; and several of the houses on the hill; Marie was the granddaughter of John Schafer, the founder of Schafer Logging.
The house originally had three bedrooms and 1-3/4 baths upstairs. Two additions, not readily visible from the street, were added. The first was built in 1950 which enlarged the kitchen to its present 650 sq. ft. and added a laundry room, and a two-car garage on J Street with a nanny’s bedroom and bath above, accessible by its own interior staircase. In 1960 the Reids added a large bedroom, dressing room and bath on the west wide of the first floor and built the house directly west of their house for their daughter, Janet. The two houses, now separate properties, are very close to each other and were connected by a covered causeway, which has since been removed.
This house is on the City’s Historic Register.