Résumé

Draftsman, Loveless and Fey, Architects, Seattle, WA, 1936. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1936, p. 894.)

Draftsman, Gordon Bernie Kaufmann, Architect Los Angeles, CA, 1937-1938.

Assistant Chief Zone Architect, Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Large-Scale Housing Division, San Francisco, CA, 1938-08/1940. The Seattle Sunday Times reported on 08/11/1940: “Daniel E. Lamont, formerly of Seattle and until recently associate zone architect with the F.H.A. low-rent housing division, has returned to this city to enter a partnership with Arthur Loveless and Lester Fey, architects. As assistant to the chief zone architect, Lamont directed the design and technical plans of large scale projects submitted in the eleven Western states. Prior to this, Mr. Lamont was assistant to Eugene H. Clabber, director of architecture, large scale housing division, F.H.A., in Washington, D.C.” (See “D.E. Lamont Joins Architect Firm,” Seattle Sunday Times, 08/11/1940, p. 3.)

Partner, Loveless, Fey and Lamont, Architects, Seattle, WA, 08/1940-1942.

Plant Supervisor, Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle, WA, 1943. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1943, p. 660.)

Partner, Lamont and Fey, Architects, Seattle, WA, c, 1942-1956. In 1948, Lamont and Fey leased office space at 1322 East Pine Street in Seattle. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1948, p. 766.) The Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1953, (p. 780) indicated that the Lamont and Fey were "industrial engineers." Lamont was an engineer by training, as well as an architect. Between 1953 and 1956, Lamont and Fey had an office at 308 Columbia Street in Seattle. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1954, p. 795 and Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1956, p. 826.)

Architect, W.C. Nickum and Sons, Naval Architects, Seattle, WA, 1957- c. 1960. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1957, p. 874.) During the 1950s, Lamont and Fey formed a professional association with naval architects, W.C. Nickum and Sons, in Seattle. He may have become aware of the Nickum firm while he worked at the Todd Pacific Shipyards in 1943. William Bowman Nickum directed the family firm until his retirement in 1954, due to failing health. (See "William B. Nickum," Tacoma News Tribune and Ledger, 03/22/1959, p. A13.) W.C. Nickum and Sons won commissions to design ferries for the Washington State system and its governing body, the Washington Toll Bridge Authority, in 1957. (See "New Ferry Boat Design Approved," Longview Daily News, 07/12/1957, p. 5 and "Sequim News," Port Angeles Evening News, 04/17/1959, p. 3.) It appears Nickum consolidated its operations with Lamont and Fey during the 1957-1959 period.

Vice-president, W.C. Nickum and Sons, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Seattle, WA, 1959. (See Pacific Bell Telephone Company Directory, 1959, p. 930.) In 1962, Lamont reported that he had been a partner in the firm of "Nickum, Lamont and Fey." (See American Architects Directory, 1962, George S. Koyl, editor, [New York: R.R. Bowker, 1962], p. 401.)

Partner, Lamont and Fey, Architects, Seattle, WA, 1960-c. 1968. Between 1960 and 1962, at least, Lamont and Fey, Architects, had an office at 71 Columbia Street in Downtown Seattle. The leadership of Lamont and Fey in 1960 consisted of Daniel Lamont, Lester Fey and the engineer Mark Goodrich Reese (born 05/26/1913 in Ritzville, WA), who had worked for W.C. Nickum since at least 1940. (See Pacific Bell Telephone Company Directory, 1960, p. 940 and American Architects Directory, 1962, George S. Koyl, editor, [New York: R.R. Bowker, 1962], p. 401.) Lester Fey left the partnership in about 1968, according to his obituary. (See "Memorial Rite for Lester Fey, 78," Seattle Times, 03/20/1980, p. D20.) The American Architects Directory, 1970, (p. 519) listed the end of the Lamont and Fey parternship being in 1967.

Principal, Daniel E. Lamont, Architect, Seattle, WA, c. 1968-c. 1985.

Professional Activities

Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA), 1944-c. 1985. Lamont belonged to the Washington Chapter of the AIA, and then, after 1960, the Seattle Chapter.

Registered architect in the States of OR and WA in 1962. (See "Lamont, Daniel Elihu," American Architects Directory, 1962, George S. Koyl, ed., [New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1962], p. 401.)

College

Lamont had a discontinuous undergraduate experience, taking courses at various institutions over a number of years.

Coursework, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

Coursework, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Coursework, University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Seattle, WA, c. 1932-1934. While at the UW, Lamont pledged to the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. (See University of Washington Tyee Yearbook, 1932, p. 227.)

B.Arch., University of Oregon (U of O), Eugene, OR, 1937.

College Awards

Honor Roll, University of Oregon (U of O), Eugene, OR, 1937.

Recipient, University of Oregon (U of O), AIA Attainment Award, Eugene, OR, 1937.

Relocation

Daniel Elihu Lamont was born in Seattle on 10/06/1912. Two years before his birth, in 1910, his parents Clarence and Maude Lamont lived with their daughter Loyal and a household worker, Mary Skedlund (born c. 1880 in Norway), at 1103 Cherry Street in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1910; Census Place: Seattle Ward 4, King, Washington; Roll: T624_1659; Page: 9b; Enumeration District: 0102; FHL microfilm: 1375672, accessed 07/28/2023.) At the time of his birth, his parents lived at 1414 East Roy Street in Seattle. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington State Births 1907-1920 Source Information: Washington, U.S., Birth Index, 1907-1920 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002, accessed 08/01/2023.)

Clarence Lamont died when Daniel was five. An obituary printed in the Des Moines (Iowa) Tribune, said of Clarence: "...Noted in engineering circles throughout the country as the inventor of several devices for power transmission on ships, died here [in Seattle] yesterday of pneumonia." (See "Noted Inventor Dies," Des Moines Tribune, 03/22/1918, p. 12.) A version of the same wire story in the Vancouver [BC] Daily World also noted: "For several years he was assistant to the president of the Seattle Construction & Drydock Company. He was likewise connected with the Union Iron Works at San Francisco, and the White Pine & Yukon Railway in Alaska.” (See “Inventor Dies,” Vancouver Daily World, 03/22/1918, p. 19.) At the time of his death, the Lamonts lived at 1414 East Roy Street, a comfortable residential section of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

His mother Maude remarried rapidly after Clarence's death, on 12/27/1919 in Multnomah County, OR, to WIlliam L. Eaton.

In 1920, Daniel Lamont lived with his mother, step-father and sister in a building at 526 North Broadway in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. The Eatons employed a maid, Fanny Erickson (born c. 1892 in Sweden). (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: T625_1927; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 180, accessed 01/04/2018.)

Ten years later, the Eaton Family lived at 739 Harvard Avenue North also in Capitol Hill. A different maid lived with Daniel and his family, Dorothy E. Gill (born c. 1891 in England) as did Gill's daughter, Dorothy P. Gill (born c. 1920 in Canada). (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1930; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: 2497; Page: 20B; Enumeration District: 0103; FHL microfilm: 2342231, accessed 01/04/2018.)

Lamont lived at 1017 Minor Avenue, Apartment #304, as a UW student in 1933. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1933, p. 875.)

In 1935-1936, Lamont lived at 1943 14th Avenue North in Seattle. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1935, p. 887 and Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1936, p. 894.)

His collegiate educational path was not a continuous, four-year process. He attended three universities before graduating from the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR, in 1937.

In 1940, Lamont and his wife, Bettina, lived in an apartment building (#321) at 1640 Washington Street in San Francisco, CA. He apparently worked for the FHA in Seattle and San Francisco between 1935 and 1940. By 10/1940, they moved to an apartment at 2425 41st Avenue North (later renamed East) in Seattle's Edgewater Park development, built two years earlier. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Wwii Draft Registration Cards For Washington, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 100, accessed 07/27/2023.)

During World War II in 1943, Lamont lived at 707 East Prospect Street and worked as a plant supervisor for the Todd Pacific Shipyards. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1943, p. 660.)

According to the 1950 US Census, the Lamonts continued to inhabit 707 East Prospect Street in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: 2804; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 40-355, accessed 07/27/2023.) They continued to live there in 1960. (See Pacific Bell Telephone Company Directory, 1960, p. 940.)

Lamont lived at 1864 Broadmoor Drive East, in Seattle in 1993.

He died of lung cancer, from which he had been suffering for about nine months, on 06/17/1987 and was buried in Lake View Cemetery in Seattle, along with his wife Bettina. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington Death Index, 1940-2017, accessed 07/27/2023.)

Parents

His parents were Clarence Booth Lamont (born 02/23/1877 in Van Etten, NY-d. 03/21/1918 in Seattle, WA) and Maude Hahn (born 11/18/1885 in Prineville, OR-d. 04/08/1961 in Seattle, WA). They married on 04/04/1908 in Portland, OR at Saint Mark's Episcopal Church. (See "Society," Oregon Sunday Journal, section II, 03/01/1908, p. 2.) Clarence and Maude had two children, a daughter, Loyal, (born c. 1910) and Daniel. He attended the Central Manual Training High School in Philadelphia during the 1890s, and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1900. His entry in Who's Who on the Pacific Coast,(1913) indicated that he worked as the President of the Pacific Engineering Company of Seattle, from 1904 until 1908, and, subsequently, as the Assistant to the President of the Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company, 1904-c. 1913, and as a consulting engineer. He also belonged to a large number of private social clubs in Seattle, Portland, OR, Chevy Chase, MD, and Washington, DC. (See "Lamont Clarence Booth," in Who’s Who on the Pacific Coast, Franklin Harper, ed., [Los Angeles: Harper Publishing Co., 1913], p. 332.)

Following Clarence's premature death at age 41, Maude Hahn wed William L. Eaton (born in San Francisco, CA), the manager of a Seattle auto dealership. She applied for US passport to travel in Europe with Eaton in 07/1922. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; NARA Series: Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925; Roll #: 1946; Volume #: Roll 1946 - Certificates: 161100-161475, 04 May 1922-04 May 1922, accessed 01/04/2018.)

Daniel had a sister Loyal Lamont Pavenstedt. (born 09/11/1909 in WA-d. 08/30/1964 in Multnomah County, OR), who married twice. At age 18, Loyal married Carl R. Heussy (born 08/24/1905 in Seattle, WA-d. 04/07/1943 in Port Angeles, WA) on 11/27/1927 in Kitsap County, WA. About seven years after Carl's death, she wed Adolf Fritz Pavenstedt on 01/14/1950 in Saint Mark's Cathedral in Seattle.

Spouse

He married Bettina Gartzmann (b. 09/28/1916 in Alameda County, CA-d. 12/14/2000 in Seattle, WA) on 03/24/1939 in CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California Department of Public Health, courtesy of www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com. Digital Images, accessed 08/01/2023.)

Children

Daniel and Bettina Lamont had at least two children: Dana Lamont (born c. 1942 in WA) and Daniel E. Lamont, Jr., (born 02/08/1956 in WA).

Biographical Notes

At age ten, Daniel was to accompany his mother and sister on a European trip beginning on 07/08/1922. Their itinerary listed on a US passport application included the British Isles, France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; NARA Series: Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925; Roll #: 1946; Volume #: Roll 1946 - Certificates: 161100-161475, 04 May 1922-04 May 1922, accessed 07/28/2023.)

Lamont's World War II draft registration card indicated that he was Caucasian with a dark complexion, brown eyes and brown hair. He stood 6-feet, 1-inch tall, and weighed 168 pounds. The card also noted that he was "blind in right eye."

SSN: 570-01-6301.

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