Ambrose Russell

Background

He was Scottish and was born in the East Indies.

Career

Russell trained in the United States with 19th-century Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Henry Rhodes had Russell and Frederick Heath design and build a house in 1901. In the Pacific Northwest Everett Phipps Babcock worked with him.

Russell"s projects included the Washington Governor"s Mansion in Olympia and the William Ross Rust House built for smelter magnate William Rust, costing $122,500.

He also designed the Temple Theater, Rust Building, Perkins Building, Tacoma"s armory and "many of the city"s large mansions" including the Rhodes mansion and the Gower Mansion on East Street.

Connections

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Beaux Arts