Overview

Civil engineer H. Ambrose Kiehl (1865-1942) and his wife Louisa Stockand (1868-1917) lived in this grand Queen Anne-styled house on the grounds of Fort Lawton, from about 1899 until 1905. Kiehl worked with the Captain William Wallace Robinson, Jr., (1846-1917), the officer in charge of laying out and stocking the new Fort. Fort Lawton was seen as particularly strategic during the Spanish-American War as the US became more active militarily in the Pacific. Addtitionally, an influx of Klondike gold miners through Seattle made a base here important for stocking Alaska-bound ships.

PCAD id: 19935