Brandes House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Ray Brandes House is a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Usonian home located at 2202 212th Avenue SE, Sammamish, Washington. The home is constructed in Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian style which is designed to create flow between nature, the home and its interior.”
Wikipedia article Brandes House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.

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.
Address. 2202 212th Ave. SE., Issaquah, 98075
When was it listed? December 1994
Category. building
Census division. Issaquah Plateau
Architectural style. modern architecture
Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
National Register reference number. 94001436 - 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

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Brandes House between 1993 and 1998, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Smoking	1
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
15 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 September 1993	Smoking	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Brandes House: 12 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Harris Clay Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Sunset Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Harris Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Section 31 Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Issaquah Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Issaquah Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ps A 224 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in King County

Storms near this property

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Issaquah, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2013: 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 1999	Heavy Rain	Issaquah	$85,000	Heavy rains led to a road being washed out by Issaquah Creek.
December 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Issaquah	$25,000	About 8600 Seattle City Light customers lost power. About 300 homes in the Sammamish area lost power and one had a tree fall on it. In Maple valley a lumber storage building had its roof ripped off.
July 2013	Lightning	Issaquah	$10,000	South of Issaquah, a tree fell and struck a woman standing on her porch. The woman suffered a broken hip. A lightning strike sparked a gas leak in a Sammamish neighborhood, it hit a house, then went through the gutter system and ruptured a buried gas line 100 feet away and causing flammable gas to spew into the air.

Every storm 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

6 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
Pickering Farm	2.0 miles	1983
Dr. Johan and Louise Wenberg House	2.0 miles	2024
Issaquah Depot	3.3 miles	1990
Issaquah Sportsmen's Club	3.8 miles	1998
Pacific Coast Company House No. 75	5.5 miles	1979
Frederick W. Winters House	6.5 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001436 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.