Dorothy Stimson Bullitt can be credited with carrying Seattle into the Golden Age of Television. In the late 1940s, at a time when few entrepreneurs had caught on to the power of the small screen and far fewer were women, Bullitt acquired Seattle’s first television station (around the same time that she moved into this Capitol Hill residence). KING Broadcasting Company was born.
Bullitt originally took over her family’s existing business ventures out of necessity, having lost her husband, brother, and timber-magnate father over the course of three short years. “Nobody wanted to, so there I was,” Bullitt told the Seattle-Post Intelligencer. It was a
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