Ambrose J. Russell

He was Scottish but born to parents on mission in the East Indies,[1] in the town of Trivandram, India.

He was trained in Paris[2] at the Ecole des Beaux Arts where he was a classmate of Bernard Maybeck.

[3] Russell trained in the United States with 19th-century Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson.

[4] Henry Rhodes had Russell and Frederick Heath design and build a house in 1901.

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.