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BOLAND-B16541
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- 1927-03-18 (Creation)
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The "Shawnee House," overlooking Quartermaster Harbor, located at Magnolia Beach, Vashon Island, just south of Burton. The house is a registered historical site in King County. The architect for the home was Max A. Van House of Seattle. The Shawnee area was platted and named in 1907 by Millard F. Shaw, the original owner of the home. The Shaws originally lived in a small home up the hill. Later Mr. Shaw built his wife the larger, more elegant home near the beach and the Shawnee Dock. The only problem was that she refused to move into it, preferring her small home. The new house was sold to Stanley Morrison, a Tacoma stockbroker and vice president of Morrison-Muehler Co. Inc., a real estate company located in the Washington Building in Tacoma. Morrison was later convicted on federal charges of fraud during the 1929 stock market crash. In 1927, the home was already considered a showplace on the island. (TDL 4/6/1924, pg. G1; online nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com and vashonhistory.com) ("Magnolia Beach Memories" by Bob Gordon Sr.) G76.1-034
Neighborhoods--Vashon Island; Shawnee House (Vashon Island); Shaw, Millard F.--Homes & haunts; Morrison, Stanley--Homes & haunts;