ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
“Step Inside a 1920s Seattle Abode Reborn as a Soothing Sanctuary”
By Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar | Photography by Haris Kenjar
May 15, 2024
”Sometimes it’s a home’s past, rather than its present, that inspires a family to make it their own. Jaison and Jamie Robinson would be the first to agree. When the real estate entrepreneur and the founder of Electing Women Seattle (a network committed to engaging women in the political process and electing more women Democrats) first set foot inside this 1920s Seattle home, originally designed by architect Elizabeth Ayer—one of the first female graduates of the University of Washington’s architecture program, and Washington State’s first registered female architect—they barely noticed its shortcomings. What they did notice—and appreciate—was its history, and the verdant surroundings and enviably edited panoramas of Puget Sound that greeted them out back. So what if the interior had remained untouched since the 1920s? Maybe it was a sign to keep it there.”