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Structure Type: built works - agricultural structures; built works - dwellings - houses; landscapes - cultural landscapes - gardens
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: constructed 1926
2 stories, total floor area: 1,900 sq. ft.
The house was built for Mukai by a Norwegian building contractor.
Masa Mukai emigrated to the US in 1910, where he settled on Vashon Island, WA. He, like a lot of recent Issei immigrants, farmed fruits and vegetables on leased land. Masa Mukai's son, B.D., was married twice. As he was born in the US, B.D. could legally own land, unlike his Japanese-born father, so 40 acres of farmland was purchased in his name in 1926. B.D. Mukai's second wife, Kuni, created and tended a notable Japanese garden on this site, complete with traditional stonework, native plants, cherry trees, pond and waterfall.
PCAD id: 16277
