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Overview

This was a fourth residence of the Harold Ambrose Kiehl (1865-1942), the civil engineer who supervised the platting of Fort Lawton, the US Army base that became Discovery Park in Seattle. Kiehl and his wife, Louisa Jean Stockand (1868-1917), resided in this house that they built after having lived in two different residences at Fort Lawton.

Building History

Born in Dayton, OH, and trained at the Ohio State University, Kiehl migrated to Port Townsend, WA, in the. He married Louisa Jean Stockard (d. 1917) on 11/02/1891 in Port Townsend, and they had two daughters, Lorena Miriam Kiehl, born on 04/19/1895 in Seattle, and Laura Adelia Kiehl (1892-1982), who resided in this house until 1975. Laura never married and had a career at a time when most women had no choice but to maintain a household. Over the years, she worked as an assistant buyer for the MacDougall & Southwick Department Store in Seattle, as a manager of the Queen Anne Community Clubhouse, and as Washington State's first woman stockbroker. (She received her license in 1924 and worked for the General Finance Corporation for two years before opening her own brokerage office.) (See Jan Hadley and Michael Herschensohn, Queen Anne Historical Society, "H. Ambrose Kiehl House–421 West Galer St.," accessed 01/20/2016.)

Building Notes

The Kiehl House #4 was a cross-gabled box, with projecting porches in the front and rear.

PCAD id: 19936