The William Ross Rust House is a house in
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Pa ...
, United States, built in 1905 for
William Ross Rust, then President of the
Tacoma Smelter and Refining Company. The house was designed by
Ambrose J. Russell, who worked for Russell & Babcock with
Everett Phipps Babcock, and was built by Charles Miller. Russell & Babcock also designed the
Washington Governor's Mansion.
It was built of
sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
from the Wilkeson sandstone
quarry
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in
Wilkeson, Washington. The building has a green,
glazed terra cotta tile roof, 18 rooms, 4 baths, and 8 fireplaces. It was modeled after the John A. McCall Mansion in Monmouth County,
New Jersey
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(built in 1903, destroyed by fire in 1927). It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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on August 23, 1985.
References
External links
Biography of William Ross Rust (History Link)List of National Register of Historic Places in Tacoma- Landmarks Preservation Commission, Tacoma Economic Development Department (Dead link 2020-Aug-19)
Rust Mansion I(Dead link 2017-Jan-13)
Rust Mansion II(Dead link 2017-Jan-13)
Buildings and structures in Tacoma, Washington
Houses in Pierce County, Washington
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Tacoma, Washington
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