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John B. Agen was a farmer, agricultural processor and wholesale dealer of butter, cheese and eggs. In 1901, he lived in a residence on the southwest corner of Seneca Street and Boylston Street. In 1914, he sold ten of the twenty acres of land he owned in the Broadview neighborhood of Seattle, WA, to his friends Arthur and Jeanette Dunn. Together, the Agens and Dunns bargained a deal with the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm to cut its commission, if both gardens were designed simultaneously. James Frederick Dawson (1874-1941), then an Associate Partner in the Olmsted office, designed these two estates. Architectural work was done on this farm by Bebb and Gould between 1915-1931. Drawings of the Agen House can be found in the University of Washington Library, Department of Special Collections, Locations: M168 086, ID #5479, M168 086, ID #5675 (1924 remodeling work), M168 086, ID# 5763 (1931 remodeling work).

Bebb and Gould did some remodeling work for Mrs. J.B. Agen in 1924 and 1931; Accroding to Booth and Wilson, Carl F. Gould: A Life in Architecture and the Arts, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), (p. 178), Bebb and Gould worked again at the Agen House in 1934.

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