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Vintage Edmonds Home

nobody@flickr.com (Stones 55) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:04:50 -0800

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Seen while cross-country skiing the town.

This house was built in 1928. The house is described as a colonial revival, four-square, with a gable roof.

fortress.wa.gov/dahp/wisaard/dahpreports/historicproperty...

Tax Lot 22

nobody@flickr.com (Stones 55) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:57:06 -0800

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30640 132nd Avenue SE
Auburn, WA
Parcel 102105-9022

Photo dated 4-8-60. The house was built in 1952 and removed around 2006.

From the Puget Sound Regional Archives

Tax Lot 22

nobody@flickr.com (Stones 55) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:57:04 -0800

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30640 132nd Avenue SE
Auburn, WA
Parcel 102105-9022

Photo dated 10-20-54. The house was built in 1952 and removed around 2006.

From the Puget Sound Regional Archives

General Vallejo's Home

nobody@flickr.com (Stones 55) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:45:54 -0800

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General Vallejo's Home. Sonoma State Historic Park - Sonoma, California

General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was one of California's most distinguished citizens in the mid-nineteenth century. A frontier cosmopolitan and visionary, Vallejo owned vast ranchos in northern California and wielded enormous political power throughout the province. While serving as military governor during Mexican rule, he established an open immigration policy that encouraged and facilitated the American entrada to northern California.

From Sonoma.net:

“In 1850 Vallejo purchased some acreage at the foot of the hills half-a-mile west and north of Sonoma's central plaza. The land surrounded a fine, free-flowing spring that the Indians had called Chiucuyem (crying mountain). Vallejo retained this name for his new estate but translated it into Latin, Lachryma Montis, (mountain tear).

Grapevines were transplanted to the new site along with a wonderful assortment of fruit trees - olives, apples, pears, peaches, apricots, plums, nectarines, figs, and many lemon and orange trees - as well as some strictly decorative trees and shrubs. The quarter-mile-long driveway entrance was lined with cottonwood trees and Castilian roses. A vine-covered arbor shaded a wide pathway around the pool into which the spring flowed, and a number of decorative fountains and delightful little outbuildings also graced the carefully tended grounds.

In 1851-52 the main house was built beside the spring and its pool. The two-story, wood-frame house was done in the very latest carpenter's-gothic, Victorian style highlighted by a large gothic window in the master bedroom, twin porches, dormer windows, and elaborate carved wooden trim along the eaves. Bricks were placed inside the walls of the house in order to keep it warm in winter and cool in summer. Each room had its own white marble fireplace. Crystal chandeliers, lace curtains, and many other furnishings including the handsome, rosewood, concert-grand piano, were imported from Europe.

Along with several pavilions and other outbuildings, Vallejo's estate also included a large barn and several houses for the working staff. Near the main house a special warehouse was erected in order to store wine, fruit, and other produce. The building was made of specially prefabricated timbers imported from Europe. Its walls were made of bricks that some say had been used as ballast on sailing ships. Eventually the building was converted to residential use and came to be known as the 'Swiss Chalet.' Today it serves as a museum and interpretive center for the Vallejo Home unit of Sonoma State Historic Park.

General Vallejo and his wife lived at Lachryma Montis for more than 35 years, although as time went by they were forced to live more and more quietly and unpretentiously as the General suffered one economic setback after another. Although he eventually lost nearly all of his vast land holdings, and was even forced to sell the vineyard and other 'nonessential' acreage at Lachryma Montis, Vallejo remained unembittered. He was always extraordinarily generous and contributed as much or more than he could afford to family, friends, and causes in which he believed.

During his last years he spent much of his time reading (at one time his library included some 12,000 books) and writing personal letters to his many children, friends and relations. During the late 1870s he collected a large number of official Mexican government papers and wrote a five-volume History of California, all of which he donated to Hubert Howe Bancroft who was then assembling a comprehensive research library on California and Western regional history. Vallejo was also an active member and supporter of the California Horticultural Society. His death in 1890 at the age of 82 was widely noticed and lamented.

After his funeral hundreds of mourners formed a long procession that ceremoniously circled the plaza, paused before the site of La Casa Grande, and then proceeded solemnly to the little cemetery on the hill overlooking Sonoma.

In 1933 the Vallejo home and some 20 acres of the original Lachryma Montis lands were acquired by the State in order to protect and preserve this historic site and its collection of historic artifacts and documents.

Today the buildings and grounds are carefully maintained, and the house itself is furnished throughout with many of Vallejo's personal effects - as though the General and his wife had just stepped out for a moment. The museum, grounds, and the home itself (California Historical Landmark Number 4) are open for public viewing.”

The Pink House

nobody@flickr.com (Stones 55) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:19:59 -0700

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It used to be pink. Built in 1907, the "Pink House," the "Bettinger/Kretzler House," the "Victorian," or that awesome old house at Sixth Avenue and Main Street will soon be moved to make way for for the new corporate headquarters of Mavericklabel.com, an Edmonds-based sticker and label distributor.

Skagit Valley

nobody@flickr.com (Stones 55) — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:04:37 -0700

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Tulips. Skagit Valley, Washington

Skagit Valley

nobody@flickr.com (Stones 55) — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:04:33 -0700

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Tulips. Skagit Valley, Washington

Redmond Bungalow

nobody@flickr.com (Stones 55) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:02:57 -0800

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Planned for redevelopment.

I photographed it back in June 2006 here.

17150 Avondale Way NE, Redmond, WA 98052
Year Built: 1922

Redmond Bungalow

nobody@flickr.com (Stones 55) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:02:49 -0800

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Planned for redevelopment.

I photographed it back in June 2006 here.

17150 Avondale Way NE, Redmond, WA 98052
Year Built: 1922

Bradley House - Elko

nobody@flickr.com (Stones 55) — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:15:30 -0800

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Bradley House, built in 1904 by John R. Bradley, son of Lewis Bradley, Nevada’s second governor. A beautiful, well maintained old house. 643 Court Street - Elko, NV.

House on Commercial St - Elko

nobody@flickr.com (Stones 55) — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:15:41 -0800

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804 Commercial Street - Elko, NV. Built 1912. There's a tree house in the tree at right. According to assessor records, it's a six-unit apartment.

Dewar House - Elko

nobody@flickr.com (Stones 55) — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:15:47 -0800

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Built 1878, according to assessor information. I found some information on the web that refers to this house as the Dewar House that was built in late 1869, soon after the town of Elko was established. Classic old Nevada house. 745 Court Street - Elko, NV.

Big Brick House

nobody@flickr.com (Stones 55) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:38:26 -0800

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871 NORTHSTREAM LANE - EDMONDS, WA - Built 1925