This home just south of Seahurst Park in Burien started its life under the ownership of JB MacDougall, a Gold Rush–era merchant whose Pioneer Square shop MacDougall and Southwick would eventually become a popular department store. However, it was as the mansion of Hollister Sprague, a high-society Seattle attorney and an early partner in the firm that would become Perkins Coie, that would gain it its most significant feature.
A noted patron of the arts, Sprague always had tickets to the latest concert or dance performance, typically with guests in tow, according to the Seattle Times’ society pages from the 1930s and 1940s. Meanwhile, Sprague had his own massive musical undertaking:
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