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Oscar Blomeen House, historic house in Auburn, 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 takes its name from Oscar Blomeen, who arrived from Uddevalla, Sweden, in 1901 and opened a machine shop in Auburn with his brother Carl. The nurses who rented it from 1917 were known as the Stone Sisters, and the upstairs still holds the small operating room and an adjacent room with a built-in medicine cabinet from that period.

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 nurses who rented the house from Oscar Blomeen were known as the Stone Sisters, and they turned it into the area's first hospital. The upstairs still holds a small nurses' operating room and an adjacent assistant's room with a built-in medicine and supply cabinet.

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