Property Watch: Frink Mansion, the House with 3 Sunrooms

John M. Frink was kind of a big deal. In the 1890s, shortly after Washington statehood, he represented the 25th legislative district in the state senate and lost a close race for governor in 1900. He was the founder of Washington Ironworks and active in the local manufacturing community. Frink Park is named after him—he not only donated the land, he spent the last eight years of his life on the Board of Park Commissioners, eventually becoming president and helping coordinate Seattle’s second wave of Olmsted parks.

But the majestic early Craftsman home right across the street from Frink Park, while often associated

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