Louis and Ellen Olson House

Built in 1905 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Louis and Ellen Olson House, a Craftsman style mansion built in 1903, is located near downtown Enumclaw, Washington, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.”
Wikipedia article Louis and Ellen Olson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1905, American Craftsman.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Olson, Louis and Ellen, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1513 Griffin Ave., Enumclaw, 98022
When was it listed? August 1984
Category. building
Census division. Enumclaw Plateau
When was it built? 1905
Architectural style. American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 84003492 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Louis and Ellen Olson House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	WHITE FIRE
28 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BOISE CREEK
17 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TP SQUASH
16 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
19 August 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Louis and Ellen Olson House: 15 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Blum Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Dobroff	Iron	Occurrence
Blum Hi-Alumina Clay Deposit	Aluminum	Prospect
Kummer Deposit	Aluminum	Prospect
Burlington Northern Inc.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Enumclaw Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quarry Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wilderness Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
City Dump Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in King County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Trommald Building	0.2 miles	2000
Luigi and Aurora Pagani House	7.0 miles	2002
Black Diamond Cemetery	7.4 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003492 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
King County	All 324 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.