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Shaping Seattle Architecture

A Historical Guide to the Architects

Editorial Board

DENNIS ALAN ANDERSEN
DUANE A. DIETZ
KATHERYN HILLS KRAFFT
DAVID A. RASH
THOMAS VEITH

Second Edition

Shaping Seattle Architecture

A Historical Guide to the Architects

JEFFREY KARL OCHSNER, EDITOR

A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Seattle and London

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Shaping Seattle architecture : a historical guide to the architects / Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, editor. Second edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-295-99348-5 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. ArchitectsWashington (State)SeattleBiography.

2. ArchitectureWashington (State)SeattleHistory.

3. Seattle (Wash.)Buildings, structures, etc.

I. Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, editor of compilation.

II. Suttles, Wayne P., 19182005. Native American architecture on Puget Sound.

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Contents

JEFFREY KARL OCHSNER

WAYNE SUTTLES

CHERYL SJOBLOM

DAVID A. RASH

JEFFREY KARL OCHSNER

JEFFREY KARL OCHSNER AND DENNIS ALAN ANDERSEN

JEFFREY KARL OCHSNER AND DENNIS ALAN ANDERSEN

JEFFREY KARL OCHSNER AND DENNIS ALAN ANDERSEN

JEFFREY KARL OCHSNER

JEFFREY KARL OCHSNER AND DENNIS ALAN ANDERSEN

DAVID A. RASH

KATHERYN HILLS KRAFFT

DENNIS ALAN ANDERSEN AND KATHERYN HILLS KRAFFT

DAVID A. RASH AND DENNIS ALAN ANDERSEN

HENRY MATTHEWS

DENNIS ALAN ANDERSEN

GRANT HILDEBRAND

DENNIS ALAN ANDERSEN, DUANE A. DIETZ, AND JEFFREY KARL OCHSNER

GRANT HILDEBRAND

DENNIS ALAN ANDERSEN

THOMAS VEITH

DAVID A. RASH

NORMAN J. JOHNSTON AND KATHERYN HILLS KRAFFT

DENNIS ALAN ANDERSEN

NORMAN J. JOHNSTON

DAVID A. RASH

THOMAS VEITH

DAVID A. RASH

DAVID A. RASH

THOMAS VEITH

JESS M. GIESSEL AND GRANT HILDEBRAND

T. WILLIAM BOOTH AND WILLIAM H. WILSON

MIRIAM SUTERMEISTER

DAVID L. LEAVENGOOD WITH KATHERYN HILLS KRAFFT

CATERINA PROVOST-SMITH

DAVID A. RASH

DUANE A. DIETZ

DUANE A. DIETZ

S. SIAN ROBERTS, MARY E. SHAUGHNESSY, AND DAVID A. RASH

DUANE A. DIETZ

DAVID A. RASH AND THOMAS ESTEP

DREW ROCKER WITH JEFFREY KARL OCHSNER

DUANE A. DIETZ

DAVID A. RASH

MEREDITH L. CLAUSEN

DAVID A. RASH

THOMAS VEITH

DAVID A. RASH

MEREDITH L. CLAUSEN

THOMAS VEITH

ESTHER HALL MUMFORD

JEFFREY KARL OCHSNER

MARGA ROSE HANCOCK AND KATHERYN HILLS KRAFFT

DUANE A. DIETZ

GAIL DUBROW AND ALEXA BERLOW

DAVID A. RASH

Acknowledgments

A publication of this kind is possible only because of the combined support of many individuals. No single person could have carried out the research and writing necessary for the production of this collection of essays.

First Edition, 1994

First, of course, there would be no book without the contributions of the twenty-five authors who prepared the essays that form its text. The efforts of others should be recognized as well.

The idea of preparing a publication to coincide with the celebration, in 1994, of the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the American Institute of Architects in Seattle and Washington State was initiated and supported beginning in 1991 by Norman J. Johnston, FAIA, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and Marga Rose Hancock, executive vice president of AIA Seattle.

The Editorial Board, which includes Dennis Alan Andersen, Duane A. Dietz, Katheryn Hills Krafft, David A. Rash, and Thomas Veith, was formed in mid-1991. This group met regularly over more than two years and was responsible for determining the architects to be included, identifying potential authors, establishing guidelines, reviewing submissions, and preparing the gazetteer of additional architects. In addition, members of the Editorial Board carried out their own research and were responsible for a significant number of the essays. All of the essays were subject to an intensive review by members of this Board and by anonymous reviewers in the fashion typical of scholarly publications.

Supplemental assistance by several individuals must be recognized. Without their efforts this book would not have approached its present level of accuracy, completeness, and consistency. David A. Rash provided additional factual information and references for many essays, Dennis Alan Andersen provided assistance in locating photographs for some of the essays, and Duane A. Dietz made available his catalogue of Seattle architects and landscape architects as the basis for beginning with the listing of the additional architects. Finally, the editorial and format consistency throughout is due in large part to the efforts of Thomas Veith.

Others who helped in the production of this work in many important ways include Richard Engeman, Gary Menges, Kristen Kinsey, Sandra Kroupa, and Carla Rickerson at Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries; Rick Caldwell and Carolyn Marr at the Library of the Museum of History and Industry, Seattle; Jodee Fenton and others at the Seattle Public Library; and Paul Dorpat. In addition, T. William Booth took photographs of many buildings for which historical photographs could not be found.

The following people (listed in alphabetical order) helped one or more individual authors: Leon Alpaugh, Whatcom Genealogical Society, Bellingham, Washington; Michael Andersen, ButteSilver Bow Public Library, Butte, Montana; Ernest Bud Anderson; Gerald Y. Arai; Laura Arksey, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington; Carol Axtman; William J. Bain, Jr.; Betty Balcom; Fred Bassetti; Mary Bassetti; Herbert Bittman, Seattle; Charles O. Brantigan, Denver, Colorado; Christine Carr; Nick Cirelli, Engineering Department, City of Seattle; Clarence Copeland, Department of Construction and Land Use (DCLU; now Department of Planning and Development or DPD), City of Seattle; Shirley Courtois; David Dennis, DCLU, City of Seattle; David Dilgard, Northwest Room, Everett Public Library, Everett, Washington; Robert L. Durham; Virjean H. Edwards, Assistant Registrar for Records, University of Washington; Robert H. Egan; Thom Emrich, Mithun; David Gebhard; Carolyn Geise; Dennis Glynn, Honolulu; Carl F. Gould, Jr.; Frederick A. Graham; Loretta Zwolak Green, Sisters of Providence Archives, Seattle; Gary Griffith, State of Washington Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Olympia; L. Jane Hastings; Yoshio Hata, Yakina Baptist Church, Wapato, Washington; Warren Hill, University of Washington; Joseph Holmes; John C. Houghton, Oakland, California; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Huntington III, Snohomish, Washington; Art Hupy, LaConner, Washington; George Iseri, Idaho-Oregon Buddhist Temple, Ontario, Oregon; Phillip L. Jacobson, University of Washington; Laura Johnson, Callison Partnership; Roderick Kirkwood, John Graham Associates; Lawrence Kreisman; Martha Lamb; Cathleen Latendresse, Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Michigan; Alan Lathrop, Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, Saint Paul; Ruth Lea; Carol Lichtenberg, Archives, Manuscripts and Special Collections Division, Washington State University; Wendell Lovett; Gerald Malcolm, McAdoo, Malcolm & Youel; Jane MacGowan, Seattle; Thelma McAdoo; Richard F. McCann, Pasadena, California; Elaine Miller, Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma; Don Mumford; Ibsen Nelsen; Janet Ness, Manuscripts and Archives Division, University of Washington Libraries; Ed Nolan, Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma; Folke Nyberg, University of Washington; Marion OBrien, DCLU, City of Seattle; Office of Urban Conservation of the City of Seattle; Michael Olson, Gallaudet University Archives, Washington, D.C.; Betty J. Pfouts, Jefferson County Historical Society, Port Townsend, Washington; Celia Porto, NBBJ; Elizabeth Walton Potter, Eugene, Oregon; Mary Randlett, Bainbridge Island, Washington; Margaret Riddle, Northwest Room, Everett Public Library; Mr. and Mrs. John Rohrer; Lisa A. Schneider, San Francisco; Lyle Schreiber, Rice County Historical Society, Faribault, Minnesota; Robert M. Shields; Peter Staten; Peter Steinbrueck; Todd Strand, North Dakota State Historical Society, Bismarck; David Streatfield, University of Washington; William Strong, Mahlum & Nordfors; Daniel Taylor, Bittman Vamen Taylor; Linda Thatcher, Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City; Gary Thomas, Gallaudet University Archives, Washington, D.C.; Mikki Tint, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon; Eleanor Toews, Archivist, Seattle School District No. 1; Eduardo Tolentino, DCLU, City of Seattle; Deborah Walker; Roberta T. Walker, The Bumgardner Architects; Betsy Whitesell, NBBJ; Robert Winskill, Mill Valley, California; David Wright, The Bumgardner Architects; Sadie Yamasaki, Seattle Buddhist Temple Archives; Richard Youel, McAdoo, Malcolm & Youel.