Ambrose J. Russell

{{short description|American architect}}

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| birth_date = October 15, 1857

| birth_place = Trivandram, India

| death_date = March 6, 1938

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| alma_mater = École des Beaux-Arts

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| significant_buildings = Washington Governor's Mansion, William Ross Rust House

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Image:William Ross Rust House.jpg designed by Russell while at Babcock & Russell (a firm with Everett Phipps Babcock), built by Charles Miller]]

Image:Washington State Governor's Mansion.jpg state's governor's mansion designed by Everett Babcock and Ambrose J. Russell's firm]]

Ambrose J. Russell (October 15, 1857 – March 6, 1938) was an architect in Tacoma, Washington. He was Scottish but born to parents on mission in the East Indies,William Farrand Prosser [https://books.google.com/books?id=nbwUAAAAYAAJ&dq=Ambrose+J.+Russell&pg=PA217 Ambrose James Russell] "One of the leading architects of Tacoma, is a native of the East Indies, where his birth occurred." Volume 2 of A History of the Puget Sound Country: Its Resources, Its Commerce and Its People: with Some Reference to Discoveries and Explorations in North America from the Time of Christopher Columbus Down to that of George Vancouver in 1792, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1903 Original from Harvard University Digitized Jan 30, 2008 in the town of Trivandram, India. He was trained in ParisExploring Washington's past: a road guide to history - Page 340

Ruth Kirk, Carmela Alexander - Travel - 1995 - 543 pages at the Ecole des Beaux Arts where he was a classmate of Bernard Maybeck.Bernard Maybeck: artisan, architect, artist - Page 25

Kenneth H. Cardwell - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 255 pages

Russell trained in the United States with 19th-century Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson.[https://books.google.com/books?id=AzgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Ambrose+J.+Russell%22&pg=PA63 Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival] Winter 2007 page 63, 64 Henry Rhodes had Russell and Frederick Heath design and build a house in 1901.Kathleen Merryman [Hosts for ghosts/ Homeowners say polite spirits pose no special problems] October 31, 1993 page H.3 Section: Soundlife The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington)

In the Pacific Northwest Everett Phipps Babcock worked with him. Russell's projects included the Washington Governor's Mansion in Olympia and the William Ross Rust House built for smelter magnate William Rust, costing $122,500. He also designed the Temple Theater, Rust Building, Perkins Building, Tacoma's armory and "many of the city's large mansions" including the Rhodes mansion and the Gower Mansion on E Street.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121024092015/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/TRIBnet/access/53712701.html?dids=53712701:53712701&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+23,+1994&author=&pub=News+Tribune&desc=THE+AREA+BRIEFLY&pqatl=google The Area Briefly] November 23, 1994 page B.6 The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington)

Admiral James Sargent Russell was his son.Steve Dunkelberger, Walter Neary [https://books.google.com/books?id=ShZz3UOwk48C&dq=%22Ambrose+J.+Russell%22&pg=PA57 Lakewood] page 57