1725 Grand Ave. National Register of Historic Places One of the grandest homes in what today is Everett’s Northwest Neighborhood, this architectural gem has been owned by prominent people from the timber industry, politics and aerospace. The house was built for Charles and Idalia Fratt in 1906, at a time […]
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Everett’s Evergreen Cemetery by Melinda Van Wingen Everett, the “City of Smokestacks,” was once home to dozens of pulp, paper, shingle, and lumber mills. The milltown culture died off by the late 20th century. Buoyed instead by a 1960s Boeing boom, businesses left the compact North Everett peninsula for the sprawling […]
Sunday April 19 from 2-4pm at the Port of Everett Waterfront Center in the Blue Heron Room. Maritime Historian Chuck Fowler will lead us on a visual presentation of Patrol and Rescue Boats in the Puget Sound with emphasis and updates on Everett and Snohomish. The Port of Everett will […]
The Everett Museum of History, an organization working to preserve a massive collection, will honor the Jack at a party from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. April 16 at the Everett Yacht Club. Cost is $20 for the event, which is both a retirement party and fundraiser to help the […]
June 14th 12:00 Noon Evergreen Cemetery 4504 Broadway – Meet at North gate entrance $5 Members/ $10 Public Join Historic Everett as we guide you on a walking tour of the Historic Evergreen Cemetery. Led by board member and educator Gene Fosheim, we will visit the final resting place of […]
Join us for Snohomish County Green Drinks on Wednesday, April 9th, 5 – 7 p.m. at the beautiful, vintage Historic Everett Theatre! Originally built in 1901, the Historic Everett Theatre is the oldest operating theatre in the state of Washington. In 1995 the Everett Theatre Society was formed as a […]
VA Hospital in Walla Walla The National Trust for Historic Preservation recently released a study on the status of the nation’s historic Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals and care facilities. Titled Honoring our Nation’s Veterans: Saving Their Places of Health Care and Healing, the report paints a grim picture of the […]
Join the Fall meeting of the Northwest History Book Discussion Group. This session, they will be reading and discussing Mill Town, by Norman H. Clark. The meeting will begin with a brief presentation by the Northwest History Room’s staff on Clark’s innovative description of Everett’s origins and how its publication […]