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Although individual apartments were not exceptionally large, many featured individualized floor plans and amenities more commonly found in single-family homes: upper and lower levels connected by curved interior staircases, private balconies, glazed tile work, and stained-glass window panes. The 25-unit Ten-O-Five apartment building, completed in 1930, was the first apartment building in
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Apartments have been recognized both for their high build quality and for the speed with which they were constructed. Anhalt's company often completed construction of a building within fewer than three months, and usually constructed several buildings simultaneously. Anhalt achieved this
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balance through vertical integration and by taking advantages of efficiencies of scale—by centralizing design and construction within the same firm, and placing large orders with local suppliers of brick, tile and other building materials.
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office, sketching designs for a new project at his drafting table. The next morning, Anhalt would hand the sketches off to
Seattle architect Mark Borchert, to his frequent collaborator, architect William Whitely, or to his own
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Seattle neighborhoods were becoming increasingly urbanized.
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and existing vegetation on the building site. This floor plan also provided flexibility for minimizing street noise and maximizing privacy even in neighborhoods with high
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Edwin Dofson and Bjarne Moe, for further refinement. In 1928, Anhalt bought out
Hardcastle and founded Anhalt and Borchert, Designers and Builders, with Borchert.
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windows, and spiral staircases. Others drew on the Spanish Mission style in their use of clay roof tiles and faux-adobe stucco with ceramic inlays.
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