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This three-story house, located on a hilly site in Seattle's Portage Bay neighborhood, served a couple with two children, a girl and a boy. Jacobsen designed the house to have a section that projected out on two floors, enlarging the kitchen on the first floor and a bedroom on the second. Windows were placed at nearly each corner to provide cross-ventilation and open views. The exterior had board and batten siding, painted red, with fir window and door trim painted white. The simple board and batten look and color scheme reflected residences and apartment buildings Jacobsen had seen in Scandinavia during a trip there in 1938.

Sally Woodbridge and Roger Montgomery, in their Guide Book to Architecture in Washington State An Environmental Perspective, noted of the Gunby House: "An early Modern design that uses wood to express both Scandinavian and Northwest regional influences." (See Sally Woodbridge and Roger Montgomery, Guide Book to Architecture in Washington State: An Environmental Perspective, [Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1980] p. 171)

PCAD id: 6107