Male, died 2013-06-20

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Carothers, Richard, Associates


Professional History

Résumé

Principal, Richards Carothers Associates, Landscape Architects, Eugene, OR, 1960-1964; Principal, Richards Carothers Associates, Landscape Architects, Seattle, WA, 1964-1998. Carothers sold his practice to a Dallas-based architecture-engineering conglomerate, Huitt-Zollars, in 1998. Carothers retired from this merged entity in 2000. In 2013, Huitt-Zollars had offices in Seattle and Tacoma.

In its obituary on Carothers, the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce wrote: "In more than 40 years of practice, his firm received 40 design awards, including three that were presented at the White House. Award-winning projects include a 92-acre campus for Boeing Computer Services in Bellevue, the 312-acre Dawson Creek Corporate Park in Hillsboro and the Washington Institute for Women in Purdy. In a DJC story about his retirement, he said the turning point for his firm came in the mid-1970s when he began to move from working primarily as a subconsultant landscape architect to prime consulting on land use planning, master planning and landscape architecture. He later added civil engineering and surveying." (See Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, "Memorial Sept. 6 for Carothers," published 08/26/2013, accessed 03/06/2017.)

Personal

Relocation

Born in North Bend, Carothers lived for a time in Eugene, OR. He moved his professional practice to Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood in 1964.

Carothers passed away due to complications from Parkinson's Disease in 1978. At the end of his life, he resided at the Horizon House retirement facility.


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