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They just don’t make arches like they used to. Case in point: this Mediterranean Revival home in Madison Park. Original arches from 1925 grace the front of the home, from the entryway to the windows to the front door. Arched windows line the front wall along the living room and one of the bedrooms. This home comes from the same architectural era that brought us other Period Revival trends, like the ever-popular Tudor Revival—but in a slightly less common style.

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Of course, the home’s vintage charms aren’t limited to the arches. Walk inside and find a living room with a Batchelder-style fireplace; Ernest Batchelder was a renowned Southern California tilemaker whose designs adorn fireplaces across the country thanks to mail-order kits, including many in the Pacific Northwest. Highly textured tile contrasts with smoother stone in an Art Deco pattern—including a row of tiles in a soft, watercolor-like finish.

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The house has been pretty well upgraded to modern life since it was last sold in 2018. Recent updates include air conditioning, a laundry room, and improvements to the previously finished basement. While it’s not exactly a time capsule in here, some of the updates are in service to the more vintage features, like refinished hardwoods and repairs to the exterior stucco. A balcony off the dining room was restored for alfresco meals. The main-floor bathroom still has a tidy-looking period tub and flooring, including honeycomb tile surrounded by a red patterned border. The windows are a bittersweet tale: While they now have sturdier, more energy efficient double-pane windows, it did come at the cost of leaded glass and doors between the living room and the front porch.

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The two main-floor bedrooms still have 1920s touches, including one with double-arched windows. The basement has a different vibe, with a straightforward den, a built-in office space, and a much larger third bedroom.

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The outdoor spaces shine just as brightly as the indoor ones. Out the back door, a spiral staircase leads in two directions: Climb down to a fully fenced and hedged backyard with a brick patio. Head upstairs for a giant rooftop deck with Lake Washington views.

Speaking of those lake views, this home is walking distance to the water—whether you want the big party at Madison Park Beach or the smaller patches of shoreline around it.

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Listing Fast Facts

3809 E Madison St
Size: 2,400 square feet/5,000 square foot lot, 3 bedroom/2 bath
List Date: 11/16/2021
List Price: $1,850,000
Listing Agents: Kim Knowles and Tom Maider, Windermere Real Estate

Details: Tech Support by: Emerald City IT; Support Field: Capitol Hill; Support Category: Madison Park

British telephone box in Madison Park — Random.

Image: Chona Kasinger

Among the many oddities one can find while traversing our city’s streets, the red telephone box on East Blaine Street in Madison Park might invoke the most WTFs. Unlike the gargantuan hat and boots in Georgetown or the Volkswagen Beetle–gripping troll in Fremont, the booth doesn’t announce itself as novelty. There’s no explanation for its presence, no fanfare. Just a vestige of British culture seemingly air-dropped onto a quiet Seattle sidewalk. No big deal.

It can be an afterthought even in this tiny neighborhood, says its owner and longtime Madison Park resident, Tom Maloney. “I never even really think about it except as a reference point.” If you’re trying to describe where something is in Madison Park, “it’s usually like, Well, do you know where the red phone booth is?”

The rectangular, windowed box claims a centrally located patch of sidewalk. Along a street that connects the neighborhood’s main drag to its popular beach, passersby waddle with paddleboards toward Lake Washington or fish through purses for Audi fobs after trips to Bert’s Red Apple Market. The nearby grocer is one of many family-owned businesses lining East Madison Street, injecting some small-town vibes into an otherwise urbane stretch of the city.

A couple of Brits fell for this slice of Seattle. When Cornelia Carre and her husband, Serge, left the travel business more than three decades ago, they decided to settle in a community where her grandparents had long happily resided. They rented a squat building near the corner of East Blaine and 42nd Avenue from Jan Maloney, Tom’s late mother, and opened a fine art gallery there, applying some touches of their home country: They gave it a very British-sounding name (St. James’s Court) and, on the sidewalk out front, installed a K6 telephone box.

By the new millennium England had started removing the famous booths that date back to the 1920s. The spread of mobile phones would make them even more obsolete in the twenty-first century. Still, the private conversation portal has persisted as a national symbol today, everywhere from Instagram selfies to the set of Ted Lasso.

In the early 1990s, when the Carres’ box made its way down from Vancouver via shipping container, Anglophilia was no less rampant. Upon the booth’s arrival, models posed for photos with it. Film crews stopped by. “The locals were absolutely thrilled to bits,” says Cornelia.

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By the end of that decade, the Carres would return to London for family reasons, but they let Jan Maloney have the booth. The gallery space has turned over multiple times since their departure (today it’s a design business). But Tom Maloney still owns the building, which means the box will stay where it is. A neighbor inquired about buying it a handful of years ago after a transformative trip abroad. No chance.

This holiday season, just as every year, Maloney will place a paper mâché Santa given to the Carres by a Frederick and Nelson department store designer in the booth. Before then, Maloney’s working on giving it a new paint job and sprucing up the interior. Someone got in and messed around. The antique phone inside is gone. “I should probably look and see if it shows up on eBay,” he says.

Maloney, now a real estate agent with Compass, has always lived in Madison Park. The well-heeled community remains something of a self-contained orb, affording a privacy not unlike the four walls of a K6. “If you work your life right,” Maloney says, “you can stay in Madison Park for 80 percent of the time.”

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Preschools, movie theaters, and beaches have a lot in common. For starters, each one is a prime location for naps. Better yet, they’re alternate dimensions where snacktime is the main event. Kamp is one of those places, too. Please don’t take a snooze in a booth at this Madison Valley spot, but do take advantage of their excellent finger foods.

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We realize that “snacks for dinner” sounds like a sad fate of Chex Mix and almonds, but it’s the route to take at Kamp. The Jamaican and Caribbean-influenced menu is full of the kinds of bites we wish we could eat at every wedding cocktail hour ever, like fantastic mini cheeseburgers, peppered shrimp tostadas with corn salsa on flattened plantains instead of tortillas, and crispy egg rolls stuffed with spicy homemade boudin sausage and pepper jack. And while there are larger entrees like run down clams and confit jerk-spiced duck leg, you’ll have a better meal sticking with appetizers and keeping the drinks coming.

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Speaking of, Kamp’s cocktail menu is for everyone, and we love that. There are zero-proof concoctions that are just as exciting and thoughtful as ones full of liquor—like a completely non-alcoholic amaretto whiskey sour, tart and complex with velvety egg white froth, or a jalapeño-pineapple margarita with Seedlip Spice swapped out for the tequila. In a society that’s taking its sweet time transitioning into a sober-inclusive world, this is a huge win. Half-proof drinks experiment with base spirits like St. Germain, vermouth, and Aperol, while you can also sip on a garden variety Old Fashioned, or turmeric-infused vodka with carrot and bitters.

If you’re truly going to stay a while and exchange juicy work gossip with pals between mouthfuls of fries, the space should be exciting, too. The energy at Kamp lends itself well to both chilling out or going all out. And also much like preschool, movie theaters, and beaches, ending things with a swirled soft serve is always a good idea.

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Food Rundown

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Kamp Sliders

Don’t you even dare let the slipping sands of time disintegrate before securing a trio of Kamp’s miniature cheeseburgers for the table. With a salted flattop-smushed crust, sticky caramelized onion jam, yellow american, and pickles to karate chop through the richness, these are some mighty little sliders. There’s an option to add bacon, but they’re so good on their own that you don’t even need it.

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Kamp Fries

Sliders without a side of hand-cut fries dunked in dill-y ranch? Let us not entertain that thought.

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Green Plantain Shrimp Tostada

Picture a tostada, only instead of a tortilla, the shell is made from a smashed plantain. The result is a thick and crunchy vehicle for perfectly cooked peppered shrimp, spicy corn salsa, pickled fresnos, and dollops of tangy green crema. A must-order.

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Boudin Egg Rolls

Kamp’s best dish. These crackly spring rolls are stuffed with boudin sausage, rice, and gooey pepperjack that brings it all together and somehow gets even more delicious as it cools. Topped with the accompanying mango chutney, they’re a home run.

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Salt Cod & Potato Croquettes

Another fried snack we love, these potato croquettes have a samosa-spiced filling with hunks of cod and velvety potato, made even better by the citrusy lime sauce that comes with it.

Run Down Clams

This bowl of clams is the perfect entree for someone who usually orders a bowl of clams—because this is a good bowl of clams. We’d slurp the phenomenal chili oil-spiked coconut milk broth with a spoon, but thankfully this dish comes with a wedge of moist cornbread to soak it up. Note that when the cornbread is gone, there will still be leftover broth. “That’s where I come in, baby!” the long-forgotten fries interject.

Confit Jerk Spice Duck Leg

If you’re specifically in the mood for confit poultry slathered in tongue-searing spice, neat—this jerk duck leg will check the box. But with a few areas of tough meat and slightly undercooked ube, you won’t be unhappy by skipping it. Double down on the shareables instead.

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Soft Serve

The flavors of the soft serve here change weekly and range from apple pie to wedding cake, and we advise you to please save room for this tasty ice cream. Consider a swirl, since the two flavors always complement each other—like the heat and salt of ras el hanout cooled down by buttery white chocolate.

Details: Tech Support by: Emerald City IT; Support Field: Madison Park; Support Category: Broadmoor

Where do the least and most liberal Seattle residents live? Take a look at the Judkins Park and Broadmoor neighborhoods to see the greatest divide between political leanings.

The Seattle Times reports that by tracking political donations to candidates, a picture can be made of which neighborhoods are more or less liberal or conservative.

The Times used data reported by Crowdpac, a website that uses data geared toward helping political campaigns get funding. Crowdpac essentially rated Seattle’s neighborhoods according to how liberal they are — or in other words, how much money they contributed to the most liberal of candidates. And also, it considered how far left or right the candidates in question were.

Crowdpac offers Seattleites the ability to check their neighborhood’s rankings — out of 78 neighborhoods. Ballard, for example, comes in at the 20th most liberal of all Seattle’s neighborhoods. Capitol Hill is the 25th most liberal in town. Whittier Heights and Wallingford are 23rd and 26th respectively. Queen Anne is far less liberal at 51. And Eastlake ranks 47th.

Most liberal Seattle, least liberal

Judkins Park (listed as the Atlantic area on Crowdpac) tops the list as the most liberal neighborhood in town. The furthest politically away from that community is Broadmoor, Seattle’s only gated community with a golf course. The least liberal areas are clumped together in the same area.

Most liberal Seattle neighborhoods:
1. Atlantic aka Judkins Park
2. Columbia City
3. North Delridge
4. Roxhill
5. Central District

Least liberal Seattle neighborhoods:
1. Broadmoor
2. Madison Park
3. Denny-Blaine
4. Pioneer Square
5. Downtown

If one wanted to play around a little further with the information — cross referencing it with census data for incomes in those neighborhoods — it becomes apparent that the least liberal neighborhoods earn a bit more than their counterparts.

The zip code for Broadmoor, Madison Park and the Denny-Blaine neighborhoods pull in a median household income of $103,816, according to US Census data. Pioneer Square and Downtown, however, make considerably less — between $10,000 and $32,568.

Considering the more left-leaning neighborhoods, the zip code for Judkins Park earns a median household income of $62,633. In Columbia City, it’s $55,725. For North Delridge and Roxhill, the median household income is $53,848. It’s $60,563 in the Central District.

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After operating for over 26 years and representing a prominent symbol in the Seattle retail scene, the Nike store in downtown Seattle officially closed its doors Jan. 19. While the Nike store previously located on Pine St. has not released an official reason for the closure, CBS speculates that it had something to do with increasing crime rates and homelessness downtown, which are exacerbated by the lack of affordable housing in the Seattle area.

Following in Nike’s footsteps, the Regal Meridian 16, a movie theater that has long been a staple of downtown Seattle, announced their early February closure. Similar to Nike, the business has chosen not to release an official reason behind their decision.

With two major storefronts closing, Seattle residents like Seattle Times Opinion Columnist Jennifer Hemmingsen are starting to question what the future of the downtown retail scene will look like. Will tourism and travel in Seattle begin to decline without the presence of retail? Will store closures cause the economy to suffer? Will new strategies to address crime and homelessness be initiated?

Sean Reynolds, a real estate mogul and appraiser with Reynold and Kline Appraisal, located in Bellevue, explains that downtown Seattle is struggling from a financial and real estate perspective.

“Downtown Seattle is struggling. First, we have Niketown that just abruptly closed. Then, you have Amazon not renewing a big office complex lease. Then there’s Regal [Meridian 16] that just closed. A string of companies located in downtown Seattle are leaving the area after recovering from the pandemic,” Reynolds said.

Business closures do not necessarily signal a decline in tourism and retail in downtown Seattle. Some businesses, including the Seattle Convention Center, expect just the opposite. The Convention Center, also located downtown, has announced plans to expand due to an increase in business. The expansion is part of their plan to recover from the pandemic.

Chief Executive Officer of the Convention Center Jeff Blosser explained that the expansion is part of a plan to better accommodate and resource clients in a manner that the pandemic made hard to do. The Convention Center had been planning the expansion prior to the pandemic, but the process was slowed considerably.

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“The impotence around creating a second facility was so we could offer more dates and space to our clients coming to Seattle. We’ve been selling and booking the new summit facility since 2018. We hope this expansion will play an integral role in getting people jobs. We’d like to push the element that downtown is still a great place to work, live and play,” Blosser said.

While the future of businesses in Seattle feels uncertain, the technology landscape in Seattle is also rapidly changing. Seattle is renowned for its technology and is known across the nation for its advancements in business and healthcare. In January, a number of prominent tech companies announced massive layoffs. Google laid off 12,000 employees nationwide, a decision that impacted Seattle-area positions. Earlier that same week, Amazon laid off 18,000 employees, 2,300 of which were in Bellevue and Seattle. Microsoft, another major source of tech jobs in the Seattle area announced a 10,000-person layoff, at least 878 of which were from their Redmond branch. With these most recent layoffs, questions have arisen about what careers in tech will look like in the future and if Seattle will lose its status as a tech hub.

Masters of Computer Science major Ana Mendes works as a teaching assistant and interacts with students pursuing majors in similar fields. The availability of computer science jobs, along with the range and freedom they offered her, are what initially drew Mendes to Seattle. With the recent closures, that may change.

“It’s interesting because you have a lot of freedom to use your imagination and build. It’s very different from other places that have engineering. I was hoping to stay in Seattle because of the knowledge it offers with all the technology companies.” Mendes said.

The layoffs have impacted students’ goals to pursue a career in technology in Seattle. However, Mendes does not think that the tech layoffs are isolated specifically in Seattle. She believes that there could be a potential nationwide crisis in the tech field.

“I have noticed a lot of the companies that are usually hiring this time of year are not—especially from the bigger companies—that is very alarming,” Mendes said.

Students are watching businesses like the Convention Center expand while others like Nike and Regal Meridian 16 close indefinitely. As the city they study in changes, the future of retail in downtown Seattle is uncertain.