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Building History

The Seattle architect John R. "Jack" Sproule (1908-1993) designed this residence for a lawyer, Carl Pruzan (born 06/02/1914 in Seattle, WA-d. 02/25/2014 in King County, WA) and his wife Marian C. Kohn (born 05/23/1916). The Pruzans married on 06/26/1938 in Seattle. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington Marriage Records, 1854-2013; Reference Number: kingcoarchmcvol70_660, accessed 03/20/2023.)

The Pruzans had a strong interest in the arts, and their residence was filled with many paintings by local artists and furniture by significant Scandinavian, mostly Danish, designers. Their garden was laid out by landscape architect Richard Yamasaki (1921-2008).

In 1950, Carl and Marian Pruzan lived here with their two children, Lynn Pruzan (born c. 1942 in WA) and Robert M. Pruzan (born c. 1947 in WA) and a housekeeper, Dorothy L. Price (born c. 1903 in OH). (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: 828; Sheet Number: 76; Enumeration District: 40-226, accessed 03/20/2023.)

Alteration

The architect Keith Kolb (1922-2019) worked on renovations of the Pruzan House's first-floor bathroom, dining room and kitchen in 1958. Kolb selected a particularly beautiful, blue, glass mosaic tile for the bath. He designed a new storage compartment for the dining room and outfitted the kitchen with new cabinets, counters and equipment.

PCAD id: 24613