Tacoma builder Andrew Larson was born in Leksand, Sweden in 1885 and immigrated to Tacoma at the age of eighteen in 1903. He started his career as a furniture maker and by 1920 founded his own contracting company. During the early 1920s Larson built a number of Craftsman-styled bungalows and period revival residences scattered throughout Tacoma. His “The Insulated Home” model home, a Dutch Colonial at 3315 North 30th (1928), was the first fully insulated house to be constructed in Tacoma. Illness forced Larson to retire in 1944 and he passed away in Tacoma on May 8, 1951 at the age of 66.
Andrew Larson
1885 - 1951
