Well, they say pictures = 1,000 words so I'll just post. I purchased this in the mid-80's at Bushell's (no longer in business)in Seattle, it hasn't gone too far.
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Found this reference to Grote Rankin (I'd never heard of them):
FRANK AND BONNIE Cech had no idea they lived in a celebrity home until they looked through a paper bag left by the former owners. It included a charred and crumpled newspaper article pronouncing it the Model Home of 1925.
The tidy Tudor Revival cottage in the Eastlake neighborhood didn’t seem all that uncommon. But in June of 1925, as the centerpiece for a celebration called Better Home Week, its construction and furnishing became the subject of a series of articles in The Seattle Daily Times, co-sponsor with Stetson & Post Lumber Co. of a model home program.
Grote-Rankin Co., a leading Seattle furniture store with branches in Portland and Spokane, took responsibility for interior design and furnishing. The intent was to show off the latest ideas in home design and decoration and, indirectly, to stimulate sales of new products.
The house’s pedigree might have remained in obscurity had it not been for architectural historian and educator Caroline Swope, who discovered it as she browsed through an important local photography collection. Swope includes this home in “Classic Houses of Seattle: High Style to Vernacular, 1870-1950.” In it, she explores more than 120 Seattle houses of every imaginable style. In the case of this house, the prolific photography firm of Webster & Stevens documented its construction and completed rooms; these images are now part of the Pemco Webster & Stevens Collection at the Museum of History & Industry.