I put together of Anhalt’s buildings. Anhalt got his start designing market buildings in northern neighborhoods. His first Capitol Hill contribution was the La Quinta, a Spanish-style building at 17th & Denny. From there he moved on to bricks, building more than a dozen buildings in a three-year span and culminating with 1005 (“Ten-O-Five”) and 1014 E Roy St. Anhalt described Ten-O-Five as “the best building I ever built.” The ground-floor unit, now numbered #25, was Anhalt’s central management office for all his buildings. I was surprised to learn that Anhalt’s company built the commercial building on Broadway that .
After bouncing back from his devastating bankruptcy in 1934, Anhalt mostly did commissions off-Hill and sold plans for houses. Among his last projects was St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Laurelhurst. He also branched out into nurseries, selling flowers and peat soil to other aspiring homebuilders. His career ended with an acrimonious dispute with the city over his 5-acre peat bog in northern Seattle, after which he effectively retired from the homebuilding business.
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