138 South Cognac Street

**138 South Cognac Street** is a residential address located in northern Beacon Hill in Seattle, Washington. The 2-floor house consisted of an interconnected living room, dining room, and kitchen, with two bedrooms, one bathroom, an attic, and a garage. From 2011 to 2015, the building served as a co-living commune.

## History

In 2008, Dawn Anderson and her then-fiancé paid the house in-full from their previous landlord. After the two split, Dawn allowed her friends to move-in for free under a house-share agreement that saw each member of the house communally upkeep a certain aspect of the house or do a specific set of negotiable chores, despite this most residents of the house inevitably took up jobs and paid a roughly equal percentage towards the overall expenses.

The first housemates to move in were Alex Peterson and Jacob Delsin in 2011, a young couple who were friends of Dawn's younger sister Hayley and were runaways from the town of Aberdeen. Dawn welcomed boarding to the pair, and would later become openly and freely intimate with them as well.

In June of 2013, Jacob and Alex would have a rough breakup, which culminated in Jacob moving out to instead live with Zachary Richards. In return, Zachary's socially challenged sister Ami Richards took up residence with Dawn and Alex. Ami and Dawn would quickly take to each other well as Dawn assumed the role of a caring motherly figure, a stern mentor, a romantic/sexual partner and a close friend who helped Ami to learn proper social cues/responses, self-care, and taught her to control and express her emotions through art.

At the same time, Alex, distraught by the breakup, began hopping trains down the coast and writing her memoir, entitled Snow In Summer. Alex used the trip to clear her mind, and along the way met 17-year-old Ryley Summers, a runaway who much reminded Alex of herself two years prior, Ryley, who had been saving up to start again in Olympia. Alex convinced the young runaway to consider moving in with her in Seattle.

The following summer, Alex and Ryley (now romantically involved) took a trip to a camping trail south of the border to help Alex recoup from the sudden wildfire success of her book and the exhaustive press tour demands. During their drive back, the truck they had been using broke down outside Burlington. The two were helped by Jay Sanders, a local auto-mechanic who had stumbled across the couple and aided in restoring the vehicle to working condition and offering boarding for the night both free of charge. Jay kept in contact with the couple and they became close, and not long after a fallout with his parents, Jay took up residence in the house's garage. The time Jay spent living with Dawn also helped him more introspectively explore his identity without fear of criticism and Jay would later come out as transgender.

Finally, with a spare room and need for more financial support to care for a house of five occupants with low-to-non-existent incomes, Alex would post advertisements in the area offering the room to another female for $600/mo -- eventually attracting the attention of Emily Kaufman who had only recently moved to Seattle in hopes of attending university and becoming involved in the world of fashion design. Emily would take up residence in December of 2014.

By April 2015, Ryley Summers and Alex Peterson shared the master bedroom, while Emily Kaufman rented the second, Jay Sanders lived and worked in the garage, while Dawn Anderson and Ami Richards shared the attic.

## Notable Residents

* Alex Peterson (2011-2015)
* Ami Richards (2013-2015)
* Curtis Monroe (2008-2010)
* Dawn Anderson (2008-2015)
* Emily Kaufman (2014-2015)
* Jacob Delsin (2011-2013)
* Jay Sanders (2014-2015)
* Ryley Summers (2013-2015)

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## Further notes

* The address number is a reference to the song "We Are 138" by seminal punk band *The Misfits*.