Oscar Blomeen House, historic house in Washington, United States
The Oscar Blomeen House is a single-family home built around 1913 in Auburn, Washington, blending Craftsman and Victorian architectural styles. The two-story structure features clapboard siding, a front porch with wooden columns, a tower with a cone-shaped roof, and approximately 1,100 square feet (102 square meters) of interior space with original fir woodwork and period windows.
Oscar Blomeen immigrated from Sweden in 1901, married Ellen Wennergren in 1908, and established a machine shop with his brother. In 1917, he left to work at a navy shipyard, and nurses subsequently rented the house and converted it into the town's first hospital, serving as a maternity facility during the 1920s.
The house is named after Oscar Blomeen, a Swedish immigrant who established himself in the area. It reflects how early settlers organized their domestic life and the values they placed on family and community stability.
The house is easily visible from the street and can be viewed from the exterior; it is located in a quiet residential neighborhood with trees and open grounds that make exploring the area pleasant. The Auburn location is walkable and offers a good sense of how the neighborhood appeared in the early 1900s.
The house briefly served as an improvised medical facility when nurses rented it during World War One, making it the town's first hospital. This unexpected transformation reveals how private residences sometimes answered urgent community health needs.
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