miws
Hi GoGo, I don’t know if you came across this during your net search, but it may be a start:
Some of the info you need may not be directly accesible via the net. You might have to go to a physical location to research records. (And may have to make an appointment to do so.)
Here’s a direct link to the King County Parcel Viewer, where you can get the sales history on your property for around the last twenty years:
The City of Seattle’s DPD page may also be of help. Clicking on “Permit Status” under “Permit Tools” on the left side, can give you info for any work requiring a permit, that has been done (providing any previous owner(s) followed proper procedure). I believe this goes back around twenty years also:
The Side Sewer info on that site goes waaaayyyyy back, and is an interesting read.
Also, do you have any neighbors that have lived in the neighborhood for several decades? When I moved into a house in the mid-’80’s, the neighbors next door were in their mid-80’s, and had lived in their house for nearly fifty years at the time. The gentleman recalled quite a bit about my house, including what had been added on, and approximitely when. It was hard to imagine my dinky little house ever being any smaller! ;-)
Also, something I’ve done over the years, is to go to the main library downtown, and look through the old City Directories to see who lived at the particular address over the years. I’m not sure that our neighborhood libraries have such an extensive collection of City Directories. I seem to recall trying once at the Admiral Branch, and finding they didn’t, but that was many years ago.
Hope all, or at least some, of this helps!
Mike