Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: [unspecified]
Seattle psychiatrist Dr. Ralph M. Stolzhelse purchased the David Rogers Estate on 06/05/1944, for the purpose of turning the grounds into a Sanitarium intended to serve returning World War II veterans who required "neuro and mental rehabilitation." Neighbors objected on the grounds that the proposed sanitarium would ruin their property values; a suit was filed in Superior Court to halt the King County Planning Commission from re-zoning the land. The neighbors won their case, and the asylum was never built.
PCAD id: 14986