page_title: Samuel Hill
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Hill / Personal and family life / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: English: This concrete house on E Highland Drive in the Harvard Belmont Landmark District, Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington, was built in 1910 for transportation magnate Samuel Hill. Architects: Hornblower and Marshall, based in Washington, D.C. Both the house itself and the neighborhood are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is currently undergoing a renovation led by Stuart Silk Architects.
context_page_description: Samuel Hill, usually known as Sam Hill, was an American businessman, lawyer, railroad executive, and advocate of good roads. He substantially influenced the Pacific Northwest region's economic development in the early 20th century.
  His projects include the Peace Arch, a monument to 100 years of peace between the United States and Canada, on the border between Blaine, Washington, and Surrey, British Columbia, and the Maryhill Museum of Art. Although his promotion of paved modern roads is possibly his greatest legacy, he is now best remembered for building the Stonehenge replica in Maryhill, Washington.
context_section_description: Sam Hill married Marie Francis Hill (also known as Mamie Hill and, after their marriage, as Mary Hill Hill) on 6 September 1888. A generous wedding gift from her father placed them immediately into the ranks of the wealthy.
  Their two children were Mary Mendenhall Hill (born 3 July 1889) and James Nathan Branson Hill (born 23 August 1893). Mary was Catholic and Sam agreed that their children would be raised Catholic. Sam was a Quaker, but over the next decade or two he maintained excellent relations with various Catholic clergy – even some close friendships.
  Their marriage was never a love-match and by 1900 when Sam had decided to settle in Seattle, the marriage was coming apart. Mary left Sam in Seattle and moved back to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area with their children; she eventually moved to Washington, D.C..
  Mary never returned to Seattle, but up to 1907 Sam continued to visit her in the Midwest or back East at least twice a year. He even bought an estate at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Sam hoped he and Mary would occasionally stay together, but their relationship continued to grow cold. Because she was Catholic, a divorce was out of the question for Mary; the possibility might not even have been discussed.
  Mary increasingly withdrew from the world: By 1921 she was described by the St. Paul Pioneer Press as "virtually an invalid", although she lived until 1947.
  As for their children, daughter Mary suffered all of her life from emotional and mental problems, and spent much of her life institutionalized. Sam and Mary's son James N.B. Hill lived the life of a wealthy man, but never impressed his father's biographer as having made any particular mark on the world.
caption: Hill's 1910 concrete mansion in Seattle, designed by Washington, D.C. architects Hornblower and Marshall
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