Silas E. Nelsen

He was born in "Stotten" (a likely misspelling of Stoughton, Wisconsin)[7] and went to high school in Portland, Oregon.

[1] He did not have formal training in architecture when he went to work for Heath, Gove, and Bell, but was able to start his own firm five years later.

5 (1935) in Tacoma, and after World War II, he "continued in the Moderne vein with such projects as the Mueller-Harkins Buick Dealership (1948), the Temple Baptist Church (1949), and the Johnson Candy Company Building (1949).

[1] Nelsen was also a "coordinating architect for several fraternity buildings on the (University of Puget Sound (UPS)) campus (1961)".

[10] Additions and renovations were carried out in 1964, 1975 and 1989 to "expand the library, bring it up to code, and add a community meeting room.