Ralph Anderson

Ralph D. Anderson (October 21, 1924 – October 24, 2010) was an American architect from Seattle, Washington. He was a founder of Ralph Anderson and Partners, later Anderson Koch Smith. Much of his work is modernist, and he is also associated with preservationism. He was an early and significant contributor (including as an investor) to the restoration of Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood,

Anderson went on to graduate from the University of Washington Architecture School in his native Seattle in 1951 and received his Washington State architectural license in 1954. He worked several years for architect Paul H. Kirk before opening his own practice. Restoration projects elsewhere in Washington state around that time included the Fort Worden Commander House in Port Townsend) and the Company Store in Port Gamble. Union Trust Building (1965, Pioneer Square, Seattle) Grand Central Hotel, also known as a Squire-Latimer Building, now officially Grand Central on the Park (1971/1972, Pioneer Square, Seattle) Fisher Studio Building (1974, Downtown Seattle) Pioneer Building (1970–1975, Pioneer Square, Seattle) Smith Block, Butterworth Building, and Alaska Trade Building (1977, Pike Place Market Historical District, Seattle) Fort Worden Commander House (1976, Port Townsend, Washington; also known as "Commandant's House") Company Store (Port Gamble, Washington) Fairmount Hotel (1977, Pike Place Market Historical District, Seattle) American Can Company Building (1976–1977, Belltown / Central Waterfront, Seattle). This was the conversion to turn this building into the Seattle International Trade Center. It was later refitted again in 1999 as the headquarters of RealNetworks.

New buildings

Dr. Tucker House (1957) Miller House (c. 1963) Ambaum Medical & Dental Clinic (1965, Seattle) Williams House (1970, Evergreen Point, Medina, Washington) Three Tree Point House (1971, Burien, Washington) Runions House (1967) Lamphere House (1973, West Seattle) Middleton, Berner & Wood Medical Building (1974, Bellevue) Seattle Trust Court (1977, Seattle) Marketplace North (1981, Belltown / Pike-Market, Seattle; with Bumgardner Partnership) North Capitol Hill Homes (North & South) (1996, Brace Point Partnership)