93 N. Euclid Avenue

The brick and shingle Colonial Revival cottage at 93 North Euclid Avenue is owned by Justin Greenawalt and Christopher Eddie. The property is identified as Lot 37 of the Roseburg Plan of Lots. The Roseburg Plan became one of Bellevue’s most esteemed early twentieth century residential developments.

93 North Euclid Avenue is an example of an Eclectic Period cottage. Eclecticism, sometimes called the Historicist Period, was a late 19th and early 20th century architectural period characterized by the sampling and incorporation of varying historical architectural elements to create a stylistic language that was new and original. In architecture, these elements often included structural features, stylistic motifs, and ornament.

With its steep gambrel roof and wide front-gable dormer, the house borrows heavily from the Colonial Revival style. However, the cantilevered dining room bay and the use of cedar shingles is a nod to the late Victorian and Shingle styles. Details, including the interior woodwork, are simple and clean, referencing the growing popularity of Craftsman design in the 1900s.

In considering the plan of the house, 93 North Euclid was altogether different from most of its contemporaries. The “reception hall house,” frequently identified as an “American Foursquare,” and sometimes referred to colloquially as “the Pittsburgh box,” became the preferred model of developers in the Roseburg Plan. However, the design of this home reflects the needs and desires of an emerging, twentieth-century, American middle class. The house is built on the “living room plan,” wherein the entry opens directly into the living room, dispensing with the typical, formal reception hall and parlor. Guests were received in a spacious living room and welcomed into the house instead of being left waiting at the door. Unlike larger homes of the period, the house was designed to function without the aide of servants or staff.

Construction of 93 North Euclid Avenue spanned from late 1911 to early 1912. The home had several owners before it was purchased by James Grant and Marie Connors in 1940. They raised six children in the house. The Connors family would own the house for 71 years. On September 28, 1973, James Grant Connors, Sr. died, leaving the house to his son, James Grant Connors, Jr. James, Jr. remained in the home until 2011.

In 2011, Jeffrey Stern purchased the home, and he and his wife began the process of rehabilitating it. On January 2, 2015, current owners, Justin Greenawalt and Christopher Eddie purchased the house from the Sterns.

Christopher and Justin knew this was their home when they discovered a December 1933 calendar permanently stuck to door in a hallway closet.

The home’s original fireplaces/tile and original doors and hardware remain, and the couple has restored the bathroom with period appropriate antique fixtures and added a deck and pergola complete with backyard landscaping since the 2018 Live Worship Shop House Tour on which the home was also featured.

As a professional Architectural Historian and Historic Preservationist, Justin has concerned himself with the continued rehabilitation and restoration of the house. Together, Justin and Christopher view themselves not as owners, but as curators of 93 North Euclid, preserving the house for the generations that will follow.