Résumé

Ensign, US Navy, 1943-1945. Stricker enlisted in the US Navy on 06/23/1943, with the aim of becoming a naval aviator. He trained in 1943 near Minneapolis, MN. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The National Archives at College Park, Maryland; College Park, MD, USA; Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities, 01/01/1939 - 01/01/1949; Record Group Title: Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1798-2007; Record Group:: 24, accessed 07/21/2025.) He served at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA, during part of the war.

Draftsman, Walter E. Schardt, Architect, Pittsburgh, PA, c. 1948.

Principal, Milton A. Stricker, Architect, Seattle, WA, 1962-2008.

Professional Activities

Stricker held Washington State Architectural License #868, dating from 1955.

College

Coursework, Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, PA, 1947-1950. Stricker left in his last semester at Carnegie Tech to go to Taliesin.

Stricker worked as a Taliesin Fellow in 1951, an apprentice of the Wisconsin-born Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959).

Relocation

Stricker was born in Clayton, WI. Oddly, there were, in 2012, three towns called "Clayton" in WI, in the widely dispersed Polk, Crawford and Winnebago Counties.

The architect enlisted early (at age 17), trained to be a pilot in Minneapolis, MN, and later served at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA.

He lived at two different addresses c. 1990-1995: 3303 South Massachusetts Street, Seattle, WA, 98144-4029 (1992) and 3211 South Massachusetts Street, Seattle, WA, 98144-3942 (c. 1993-2002).

He last resided at 3211 South Massachusetts Street, and passed away on 06/01/2008 at the age of 82.

Children

One son, Peter Stricker, also became an architect.

Biographical Notes

Architectural historian Michael Houser observed of Stricker's career: "Working from a home studio and office, Stricker’s unique 'organic' designs ranged in plan from V-shape to Y-shaped, and used a complex geometric abstraction as expressed in the plans, sections and elevations of his projects. Licensed in four states, Stricker completed over 130 projects for clients throughout the Northwest, Alaska and New Mexico. Many of his projects are dwellings which boast a careful orientation to their natural sites and custom built-in furniture." (See Michael Houser, DOCOMOMOWeWA.org, "Stricker, Milton A., [1926 - 2008]," accessed 02/09/2012.)

• Clayton, WI (Architect's Birth)
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