Résumé

Partner, Joyce / Copeland / Vaughan / Nordfors, Architects, Seattle, WA, 1974-1980.

Principal, Keith Vaughan Associates, Architects, Seattle, WA, c. 1980-2010. In 1983, Keith Vaughan Associates had an office at 3136 East Madison Street, Seattle, WA, 98112. He closed this firm in 2010.

High School / College

Coursework, Franklin Pierce High School, Tacoma, WA, 1950.

Graduate, Lincoln High School, Tacoma, WA, 1953.

B.Arch., University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Seattle, WA, 1960. Vaughan was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity at the UW in 1954. Vaughan married in 1958, while he was still a UW undergraduate. He graduated in the same class as Lee G. Copeland (born 1937), with whom he would form Joyce / Copeland / Vaughan / Nordfors, Architects.

Relocation

Burton Keith Vaughan was born in Tacoma, WA on 09/24/1935, to Canadian parents, Burton Leslie Vaughan and Elva Irene Horner. In 1940, the US Census located Vaughan's family in the Harvard neighborhood of Tacoma, WA, living on Golden Given Road. They owned their own home, which had an approximate value of $4,500 at the time, about average for Tacoma. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Harvard, Pierce, Washington; Roll: m-t0627-04355; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 27-40, accessed 06/25/2021.)

By 1941, they had relocated to 8519 East K Street in Tacoma. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Naturalization Records of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, 1890-1957; Microfilm Roll: 151; Microfilm Serial: M1542, accessed 06/25/2021.)

After 2010, Vaughan moved to Edmonds, WA, from Seattle.

Parents

His parents were Burton Leslie Vaughan (born 12/06/1902 in Ingramport, NS, Canada-d. 11/13/1989 in Tacoma, WA) and Elva Irene Horner (born 10/21/1902 in Shawville, QC, Canada-d. 10/23/1970 in Tacoma, WA). (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington Death Index, 1940-1959, 1965-2017, accessed 06/25/2021.) According to 1941 naturalization paperwork for B.L. Vaughan, he and Elva were married on 09/24/1927 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. They entered the US on 10/04/1927 at Blaine, WA. Their last place of residence in Canada before moving to the US was Port Alberni, BC, Canada. B.L. Vaughan initiated US naturalization paperwork on 12/23/1931 in the US District Court of Pierce County, Tacoma, WA, and finalized it in the same city on 06/16/1941. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Naturalization Records of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, 1890-1957; Microfilm Roll: 151; Microfilm Serial: M1542, accessed 06/25/2021.)

In 1940, Burton Leslie Vaughan worked as a superintendent for a retail lumber distributor, according to the US Census. The census indicated that B.L. had finished one year of high school, while Elva had completed two years of college. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Harvard, Pierce, Washington; Roll: m-t0627-04355; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 27-40, accessed 06/25/2021.)

Keith had one brother, Albert Edward (Ted) Vaughan (born 01/24/1931 in Tacoma, WA-d. 2016 in Tacoma, WA).

Spouse

He wed Gail Ballinger (born 07/11/1936 in WA) on 09/21/1958. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington Marriage Records, 1854-2013; Reference Number: kingcoarchmc230522, accessed 06/25/2021.)

Gail Ballinger attended Garfield High School in Seattle, and attended the University of Washington at the same time as Keith.

Her parents were Richard Talcott Ballinger (12/12/1898 in IA-d. 07/26/1971 in Seattle, WA) and Oneida D. Stever (born 01/27/1905 in Snohomish, WA-d. 05/20/1963 in WA. Her surname was frequently misspelled as "Stover," "Steves," and "Steven.") They married on 01/18/1926 at Lake Ballinger, WA. In 1940, Richard T. Ballinger worked as a credit manager for an electrical products company in Lake Ballinger, WA, a 100-acre lake in Snohomish County named for his grandfather, Richard Henry Ballinger (1833-1906). (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Lake Ballinger, Snohomish, Washington; Roll: m-t0627-04360; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 31-104, accessed 06/15/2021.)

As a young woman, Gail Ballinger may have traveled from Naples, Italy to New York, NY, aboard the S.S. Independence, arriving in the latter city on 11/07/1953. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1953; Arrival: New York, New York, USA; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Line: 5; Page Number: 315, accessed 06/25/2021.)

Children

He and Gail had three children: Jennifer Vaughan Reali, Erin Vaughan Dudley, and Richard "Ric" Vaughan.