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AKA: 5505 88th Avenue SE House, Mercer Island, WA
Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses
Designers: Parr, Roderick, and Associates, Architects (firm); Watanabe, Ed, Landscape Architect (firm); Roderick Glenn Parr (architect); Edward Makoto Watanabe (landscape architect)
Dates: constructed 1959-1960
2 stories, total floor area: 3,460 sq. ft.
Mercer Island architect Roderick G. Parr (1925-1999) designed this residence for the Boeing engineer Ralph Seiler and his wife, Gloria. Parr, a 1951 graduate of the University of Washington Department of Architecture, designed a number of residences in the 1950s and 1960s for new lots in Mercer Island and in Bellevue, before focusing on commercial work from about 1965 and later. Edward M. Watanabe (b. 08/23/1920 in WA) was the landscape architect for the Seiler House, and worked on the house after it was completed in 1960. Blueprints exist for the Seiler House dated 06/25/1963.
The 3,460-square-foot house occupied a .93-acre lot. In 2014, it contained 6 bedrooms and 3 baths. On 03/15/2014, the historic preservation group DOCOMOMO WeWA held a tour of the Sieler House.
PCAD id: 19002
