Résumé

Service in the US Army, Germany, c. 1957-1959.

Stein likely worked in architectural offices in New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, and Seattle, WA.

Principal, Marvin Stein and Associates, Space Planning, Seattle, WA, 1978- . In 1993, Marvin Stein and Associates had an office at 2221 5th Avenue in Seattle.

Relocation

Stein was born in Brooklyn, NY, during the midst of the Depression to Helen and Isidore Stein, immigrants from Austria. In 1940, the Stein Family lived in an apartment at 5115 13th Avenue in Brooklyn. They paid a modest $38 per month rent. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Kings, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02588; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 24-1650, accessed 10/08/2021.)

Stein and his wife Yolanda lived in New York between about 1959 and 1970, when they shifted to Los Angeles, CA, where they remained for a short time. They relocated to Seattle, WA, by 1972, and remained here. (See Seattle Times.com, "Marvin Stein," published 04/26/2009, accessed 10/08/2021.)

Late in life, the Steins resided in a 1951 residence at 17065 10Th Ave NW, Shoreline, WA. The family sold the house in 2014.

Stein passed away at Swedish Hospital in Seattle at the age of 75.

Parents

His father was Isidore Stein (born c. 1890 in Austria) who worked as a waiter in 1940. His mother Helen Stein (born 02/28/1900 in Tartakow, Austria) was ten years younger than her husband, with whom she had two children, Marvin and his elder brother Lester Stein (born 05/21/1930 in Brooklyn, NY).

Helen came to New York from Tartakow, Austria, via the Port of Trieste, entering the US on 09/20/1920. She sailed aboard the Hamburg America Liner, S.S. Amerika. She filed a declaration of intention for US naturalization on 12/23/1925. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, DC; NAI Title: Index to Petitions for Naturalizations Filed in Federal, State, and Local Courts in New York City, 1792-1906; NAI Number: 5700802; Record Group Title: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685-2009; Record Group Number: RG 21, accessed 10/08/2021.)

The 1940 US Census indicated that Isidore had completed one year of high school, while Helen had finished her second year. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Kings, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02588; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 24-1650, accessed 10/08/2021.)

Spouse

While serving in the US Army at Bindlach, Germany, in the late 1950s, he met Yolanda Ferguson (born 04/30/1930 in Wrangell, AK), whom he married in Yonkers, NY, in 1959.

She attended Highline High School in 1947. (See Highline High School Pirates Log Yearbook, 1947, n.p.) She worked as an employee at Doctors Hospital in Seattle in 1948. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1948, p. 420.)

Yolanda flew from Frankfurt, Germany, to New York, NY, aboard TWA Flight #22, arriving on 06/04/1959. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; NAI Number: 2848504; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004; Record Group Number: 85; Series Number: A3998; NARA Roll Number: 176, accessed 10/08/2021.)

Children

He and Yolanda had two children: Corey E. Stein and Garth F. Stein.

Biographical Notes

Stein's obituary stated: "This [business] success afforded Marvin the opportunity to seek out his passions: art collecting, lapping days at the racetrack, travel, opera, and family barbecues. His calligraphy was impeccable, and his writing was as good with his left hand as it was with his right. And he could write upside down." (See Seattle Times.com, "Marvin Stein," published 04/26/2009, accessed 10/08/2021.)

• Brooklyn, New York (Architect's Birth)
  Brooklyn, New York 11201

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• Seattle, WA (Architect's Death)
  Seattle, WA

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