Résumé

Draftsman, Bebb and Gould, Architects, Seattle, WA, c. 1933; Villesvik, according to Booth and Wilson's book, Carl F. Gould, A Life in Architecture and the Arts, won an intra-office competition to design the Everett Public Library in 1933-1934. In this case, Gould announced the library's programmatic needs and did a preliminary plan and set the office's four draftsmen loose to pursue their own interpretations. After a morning of designing, Gould pronounced Villesvik's design the best and gave him the lead design role. They wrote: "It was Villesvik's scheme [that won], featuring brick set in horizontal bands, a then-current style having its origin in the Dutch architecture of the early 1920s. Villesvik became the job captain and the others turned to the task, lending a hand at perfecting the design." (See T. William Booth and William H. Wilson, Carl F. Gould, A Life in Architecture and the Arts, [Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995], p. 167.)