From Everett Ave to 19th St, Baker Ave is in the Riverside Historic Overlay zone.
This overlay attempts to keep the historic character of the neighborhood through zoning guidelines.
The decade of 1900-1910 saw tremendous growth in Everett.
Although the general economy was not well,
Everett produced much lumber after the San Francisco earthquake and fire
The city tripled in size from 8,000 to 24,000 people.
Most of the homes you'll see near by are from this era.
Dwelly Building/Sound Casket Company (1909)
Sound Casket Company, c. 1930.
The painted sign was still there in the late 2000 decade.
Note that "Casket" is in the area where it now says "Dwelly".
Larry Wold collection
In 1908, Loring Dwelly had a livery stable for his business at 2711 Hewitt that included
wood, coal, coke, horse saddlery, harnesses, blacksmith and horse shoeing.
In 1909, Dwelly built this building on Baker Ave, and advertized Deare and Velie Vehicles, farm implements, harness and saddlery.
His home with his wife Grace was at 3128 Pine.
There was another livery stable that was built the year before on Bayside at 2804 Grand Ave, where the Sno-Isle Coop is today.
Walter Dwelly was a salesman there.
But soon after his business failed.
Loring Dwelly is listed as a contractor in 1912, and he disappeared from Everett soon after.
A.R. Maulsby bought the building in 1914 and moved his Sound Casket Company there.
Maulsby came to Everett as an undertaker from Bellingham about 1909, and made quite a business for himself.
Originally he operated Sound Casket Company at 2914 and 2916 Pacific.
He also ran a business, Maulsby & Sons, Undertakers, 1711 Wall at Wetmore, with his wife Maude and sons J Rollo and Zeni R.
They had a parlor car which ran from Wall St to 41st, using the Interurban tracks on Colby,
to carry mourners from his Maulsby Undertakers to burial at Evergreen.
This is the same Maulsby who bought all the land at the end of Grand Avenue,
gave lots to his sons and daughter, and after which Maulsby Lane in the NW corner of Everett is named.
Dave Ramstad research
The cinderblock addition on the south end was built about 1950.
Paddock House (1908)
House fire, snowy day, 2710 Baker (1957).
Everett Public Library archives
William R. Paddock was the first owner of this home.
He was a Bookkeeper for the Riverside Carriage Company.
See where the Carriage Company was located, just a couple blocks south.
2700 Baker block
From Riverside Historical Overlay records
2732: Mrs. G. W. Bell house (1940).
2718: M. R. Stanton house (1928).
2716: Mary H. Laflour house (1904).
1910 census: Wheeler, George W. Medicine Mnfr
1903 Polk: Wheeler on 2703 Hewitt, medicine manufacturer.
later: Olaus and Olive Braaten lived there. They had a grocery store where the Fireplace Tavern is today.
2711: house (1908).
1909 Polk: Louise Easterly, boarder. Widow of George.
1912 Polk: Arthur R. Gardner (Matilda).
1905 Polk: Gardner lived on Cedar.
1907 Polk: lived on Fulton.
2710: J. C. Paddock house (1910).
1908? Polk: Paddock, Wm R. Bookkeeper, Riverside Carriage Co
1910 Polk: Rose J. Graham, Riverside Carriage Co. stenographer.
House fire, 1957 (photo in library collection on-line)
2708: Barkhuff house (1910).
Wm D. Barkhuff, City Engineer, City Hall. Member of first class of WSU.
1910 census: Love, Samuel D. (Love & Goddykoontz)
1908 Polk: Vie Thompson, boarder (wid of John).
James Love survived, but four companions died when
a car plunged into Deadwater Slough
just a few miles east, March 4, 1917.
Ambrose Sherwood House (1903)
Sherwood house.
Jack O'Donnell collection
Sherwood arrived in 1893 to teach at the "Barge Works" school, later called the "Smelter School".
By 1901, he was principal of Monroe School, torn down in 1965.
For awhile he was superintendent of the Everett Schools.
But his longest and final tenure was as the first principal of Garfield Elementary.
1911 Polk: Jean and Lorraine (student) Sherwood.
Wellington Swalwell house (1902)
2626 Baker Ave was formerly addressed 2419 Everett Ave, changed in 2002.
This vintage view is from Everett Ave.
Jack O'Donnell collection
One of the very influential Swalwell brothers, who owned the first part of Riverside that was developed.
2600 Baker Block
2616, 2612, and the edge of 2608 Baker Ave, probably before 1917 when the concrete sidewalks were built.
Jack O'Donnell collection
From Riverside Historical Overlay records
2616: (1905).
George H. Hammon, 1910.
2612: Aaron H. Wilson house (1904)
Patrick R. Duecy, bookkeeper A L. Van Valley & Co., 1910.
2611: Ervin S. Ebey house (1909).
1909 Polk: Ervin is a collector.
1910 Polk: Ervin S. Ebey, engineer.
2609: house (1920).
1905 Polk p. 132: Clayton E. (clk. Wildes, Metzger & Requa) and Ernest Gibson (driver, Wildes, Metzger and Requa).
1908 Polk: Ervin S. Ebey. See 2611 Baker where he lived too.
2608: W.E. White house (1905).
Willamm E. White was a Driver for the Everett Box Company.
He was listed at 2711 Fulton in 1903.
See 2510 and 2432 Baker Ave for more about the Everett Box Company.
2605: Dr. Harry B. Hinman house (1904).
1906 Polk: Harry B. Hinman, dentist at 310-311 American National Bank Building. Had a telephone no. 359.
Albertina?? Hinman got the water permits.
Hinmans still there in 1924.
See sidebar.
2604: B. M. Records house (1902).
2602: Charles F Wheeler house (1904).
Wheeler was a conductor for Everett Railway & Electric Co., 1904.
James DeMars, boomman Weyerhauser Lumber Co., 1909.
John R Jones, switchman (renter), 1919-20.
2601: .
A. B. Doty house (1904)
1918.
Mary Rairdin
1918 photo of the Henry Frank Imholt family.
Mary Rairdin
1906 Polk: Aaron B (eng. ER&E Co) and Mertyle G Doty,(stengr. for Robert McMurchie).
1909 Polk: Patrick J. Dooley.
1917 Polk: Genevieve C. O'Brien, clerk Stone-Fisher Co.
George S. Moshier house (1905)
Ruai? (hard to read) and Will Eisenman wrote this postcard to Anna E. June in Cottage Grove, OR on September 8, 1908.
Jack O'Donnell collection
Moshier was a miner in 1906.
In 1909, William O. Eisenman, driver Western Produce Co. lived here.
O. D. Wilson house (1908)
Jack O'Donnell collection
From 26th and Baker, looking north.
Jack O'Donnell collection
1918 photo of the Henry Frank Imholt family, on the 2601 Baker property.
Mom on the stump.
Grandparents and uncle.
Mary Rairdin
J. F. Melang house (1908)
Jack O'Donnell collection
2500 Baker block
Many homes in this area have partial basements.
They held furnaces that burned wood waste from the many mills near by.
A typical kitchen might also have a wood burning stove.
When they were built, electricity was only used for lighting and the occasional appliance.
From Riverside Historical Overlay records
2532: (1963).
The original 1905 house is missing (fire?).
1910 Polk: 2530 Baker was George W. Goldthorpe, painter.
2531: house (1907).
1910 Polk: Reverend Carl V. Abrahamson, Swedish Methodist, (Annie). He lived on Broadway in 1908.
1910 Polk: Oly Arntson, boarder.
2527: Mrs. John Lynch house (1909). Used to be a barber shop (1940's photo).
The Lynches had a grocery store on Hewitt just west of the bridge over the railroad tracks, near the Viaduct Bar.
The owner found a Viaduct Bar Co. token, good for 5 cents, while working in her yard.
2526: Geo. Moshier house (1905).
1909 Polk: William O. Eisenman, driver Western Produce Co.
1906 Polk: George S. Moshier, miner.
2522: Geo. Moshier house (1906). 1910 census: Mushier, George S. Miner
2521: O. D. Wilson house (1908).
1910 Polk: Harry V. Gibbs, carpenter.
1912 Polk: Harry V. Gibbs, Powell and Gibbs.
1913 Polk: Harry moves to 4114 Colby.
1910 Polk: James Flynn, lived there.
1910 Polk: Oscar D. Wilson, collector Canyon Wood Co.
1907 Polk: Oscar was city clerk for city hall
2519: J. F. Melang house (1908). 1919-20 Polk: Aug Flusche (Marie), laborer Clough Hartley Co.
2518: John Watson house (1906). 1910 Polk: John Watson, plumber.
2517: Ole Anderson house (1907).
1910 Polk: Edgar E. Gatewood, Gatewood and Lasley Co (loggers, Maltby WA).
1908 Polk: Ole Anderson, millright NW Manufacturing Co.
2514: Lavina D. Wells house (1905).
2510: C. A. Lettelier house (1908).
Water turned on May 18, 1908. See also 2432 Baker -- W.H. Lettelier's house.
Letteliers owned the Everett Box Company.
2509: Collins house? (1908). Collins of Collins Casket Co.
2506: W. S. Gillepsie house (1907).
1910 Polk: Walter S. Gillespie, teamster.
1911 Polk: August and Augusta Treibel, carpenter, Ida Treibel, boarder.
2505: H. S. Thompson house (1907).
1907 Polk: Henry S. Thompson, car repair Northern Pacific.
1910 census: Thompsen, Henry S. Car Repair.
2502: house (1907).
1907: Silas Haskell, grocer at 3410 Everett.
1910 census: Haskell, Silas A. Grocer, 3410 Everett Ave.
2501: J. S. Phillips house (1910).
1910 Polk: Joseph S. Phillips, employee agent at 1914 Hewitt.
1911 Polk: Phillips is pipefitter for Everett Gas Co.
2400 Baker block
From Riverside Historical Overlay records
2430: Walter H. Lettelier house (1908).
2429: Helen L. Thompson (Geo. D. Thompson) house (1907).
1908 Polk: George D. Thompson, bookkeeper, Riverside Bank of Commerce.
2427: house (1911). 1911 Polk: Martin L. Stadum, machinist.
1910 Polk: Martin was a boarder on Summit.
2426: Joseph. H. Porter house (1907).
1910 Census: Porter, Joseph Howard, Oiler Everett Ry. Light & Water Co.
1913 Polk: operator at Puget Sound Railway and Power Co.
2424: B. D. Darling house (1906). 1908 Polk: Henry F. Bury, teaming contr.
2423: Loni S. Erving house (1907).
2418: F. L. Poindexter house (1906). 1907 Polk: Frank L Poindexter, Proprieter Everett Steam Cleaning and Dye Works.
2415: Donovan & Patterson house (1924). See Donovan House.
2414: Grey C. Alston house (1906). 1910 Polk: Guy C. Alston, Hathaway and Alston. (Lived on 2110 Rockefeller in 1906).
2412: R. M. Black house (1908). 1908 Polk: Robert is a farmer.
1911 Polk: Robert M. Black and Marie.
1910 Polk: Vinnie M. Cole, teacher Monroe school.
1909 Polk: Emma M. Doty, repr Eastern Railway Light and Water.
2411: Donovan & Patterson house (1924). See Donovan House.
2409: Donovan & Patterson house (1924). See Donovan House.
2406: White house (1907). 1910 Polk: Edward P. White, carpenter who built it with John E. Jones.
1907, 1908 Polks: Edward P. White, carpenter.
1906 Polk: Edward lives on Cedar.
2405: Donovan & Patterson house (1924). See Donovan House.
2402: T. E. Skags house (1907).
1908 Polk: T. Edward Skags, chief clerk at Snohomish County Abstract Co. (real estate and mining abstractors, p. 579).
2300 Baker block
From Riverside Historical Overlay records
2328: house (1922).
1923 Polk: Mrs. Ford Principal Monroe School. Wm H L Ford, city treasurer.
1928-9 Polk: Mrs. Esther F. Ford, principal Monroe School.
1932: Polk: Ford is President, Board of Education. Wm. H L Ford, manager Baldy Finance Agency.
2317: Ole Blomovia? house (1908).
1910 Polk: Bernard Wold, clerk Headly Brothers.
1907 Polk: Bernard lives on Oakes.
2316: Laurie Swanson house (1922).
2315: O. B. Moe house (1908).
2314: Mrs. B. J. Merrick house (1922).
2312: house (1909). 1932: Oren L. Haight, salesman Kent's Service, Anna M. Haight.
2309: Arthur Hayes house (1908).
1932: Mrs. Margaret E. Campbell., widow of Horace M. Campbell
1910 Polk: Herman G. Gustafson, treasurer Nordine Ironworks ,Hilmer D. Gustafson, apprentice, Louis Gustafson,
machinist Nordine Ironworks.
2306: R. M. Harding house (1909).
1909: R M Harding, boarder, carman Puget Sound International Railway and Power Co.
Harry J. Harding, owner, carman Everett Railway Light and Water Co.
Mrs. Clara J. Harding.
2305: Oscar Voligny house (1908).
1932: Oscar H Voligny.
1912: Oscar was a boom man, Emma wife.
1913: Oscar. Puget Sound International Railway and Power Co.
1910 Oscar, E Ry L & W Co.
1909: Oscar carman.
1908: Oscar Voligny, carman Everett Railway Light and Water Co.
2302: house (1920).
1932: Ray L McKinney, comptroller Rumbaugh's Dept store., Maude L. McKinney.
Rumbaugh lived at 18th and Grand?
2301: house (1911).
Polk 1912: at this house.
Ole J and Thora lived at 2223 Broadway (1911), foreman Everett Construction Co.
Ole J Refsnes (Thora V) contractor (1928-9).
2200 Baker block
From Riverside Historical Overlay records
2232: Tyner house (1920).
1919-20: William L (carpenter) and Mary R Tyner.
1926-7, 1932: Wm L (carpenter and Mary and Muriel Tyner (music teacher).
2228: R. Hartman house (1921).
R. Hartmann? Lots of R. Hartmann's on 1900 block of Baker.
1925: Leroy lives on 1914 Broadway.
1926-7, 1932: Leroy F. Campbell, salesman Maytag shop. And Lulu.
2223: J. M. Johnson house (1923).
J M Johnson (1928-9 foreman Parker Poyner Lumber Co.
1932: Albert Lawton, grocer (Hattie).
2222: G. McAlester house (1909).
Guy McAlester, painter. (1909).
(1908) wallpaper and hanger (2314 Hewitt).
(1932) Arthur P Kent
2218: A. R. Locke house (1911).
Arthur R. Locke, 1914 Polk p.205.
Sadie Locke, 1914 Polk.
Rev. Walter M. Mackey at church (Polk 1917), was at 1811 Baker (Polk 1916).
2217: (1923).
Built by Everett Improvement Co.?
(1932) Edgar V Hevly and Julia.
(1925)salesman Bayside Ironworks.
(1926-7) salesman Agnew Hardware
2215: (1923).
Built by Everett Improvement Co.?
Ira Getchell (1932 Polk), captain, Pacific Tugboat Co. (1928-9), mate (1926-7).
(1928) with Louisa B. Getchell.
(1932) Puget Sound Tug and Barge Co., captain.
2214: Charles J. Solie house (1922).
Charles J. Solie (Hilde) lived at 2422 Cedar (1925 Polk).
Solie Bros (1917 Polk) with Hans J. Solie (Home Acres Rd).
2211: Vernon J. Hebert house (1925).
Vernon J. Hebert ( and Gertrude (Polk 1926-7) millworker Weyerhauser Timber Co.
Lived at 1727 Oakes (Polk 1922).
2210: G.R. Holmes house (1921).
George R and Elizabeth M Holmes (1925 Polk).
(1922 Polk): salesman Pacific Fruit and Produce Co.
(1919-20 Polk: salesman Ryan Fruit Co., lived at 2931 Pine, also 1928-9 Polk.
2208: Westminister United Presbyterian Church (1916).
Rev. Walter M Mackey and Bessie (1917 Polk), lived at 2218 Baker.
Lived on Leonard in 1913 Polk.
Rev. William A Mackey (Mildred) (1916 Polk) lived at 1811 Baker Ave.
Lutheran Free Church (1932 Polk)
2207: house (1920). Royal F. Johnson (1932 Polk)
2201: Albin Johanson house (1925). Albin F. Johanson, carpenter, wife Helga.
2100 Baker block
From Riverside Historical Overlay records
2132: Ralph A Ringman house (1927). Ralph was a Pattern maker, Washington stoveworks.
2131: Carl Halverson house (1924).
2126: G. A. Webster house (1927).
2125: Carey N. Raymond house (1924). Carey N (Frances) storekeeper, Puget Sound Power and Light Co.
2122: G. A. Webster house (1927). George A. Webster, contractor, lived on Oakes, (1928-9 Polk)
2121: Carl Halverson house (1925). Wife Karen. Polk 1926-7. Millworker, Weyerhauser Timber Company
2118: Carl Halverson house? (1926).
1926-7 Polk: Carl H. Halverson (Karen) at 1902 Rainier, millworker.
1928-9 Polk: Carpenter.
2117: C. P. Brewsterbach house (1925).
2115: C. P. Brewsterbach house (1925). Brewesterbach owned realty company
2114: Mrs. John Mitchke house (1923).
Wife Mollie. John J is a machinist.
From 1909 McDougal, (1922 Polk).
2111: D. M. Whittington house (1929).
1928-9 Polk: David M Whittington carpenter, 2102 State.
2110: John Osler house (1909).
1910 Polk: John Auger, boilermaker at Sumner Iron Works.
1912 Polk: John and Gertrude Auger.
2109: Charles P. Spriesterbach house (1924).
Realtor, insurance, loans, , wife Cora, with Spriesterbach Realty Co.
2919 Wetmore -- Spriesterbach Building.
1919: lived on Hoyt (whole family). Real estate at Bank of Commerce Building.
Lived at 620 Laurel Drive.
1932: Ross G. Anderson.
1937: Ear
2106: Sargent Bartholomew house (1913).
1911 carpenter on Everett Ave.
Herman F Treibel (Mary) was a carpenter at 2606 Rockefeller (also 1917).
Polk 1928-9, p. 462: carpenter, 1807 24th (wife Mary H).
Polk 1925, 1926-7: 2106 Fulton address.
Seargent + Bartholomew turned on water.
2101: Ronald C. and Beatrice E Borgstedt house(1925).
He was a salesman at Fisher Flouring Mills.
They moved from 2914 19th St.
Herman F. Treibel, a carpenter, built this house, he lived at 2106 Fulton in 1925.
Curiously, a deed dated in 1927 for adding an easement between 2106 Fulton (Treibel) and 2101 Baker (Borgstedt).
This house faces 21st,
facing properties in the Ready Land Company's plat where they decided the main streets would be east-wesst for a few blocks.
2026: S. H. Wood house (1909). Wood is a painter. Seth H. Wood Jr., a boarder, and was a grader.1910 Polk.
2022: A. B. Locke house (1915).
Polk Directory 1913: Alfred B. Locke,
Polk 1914 p. 205, wife Rosa M., Alfred is a gardener.
2020: Arthur Gongia house (1909). 1910 Polk: Gongia was a Laborer.
2016: Henry O. Bartholomew house (1910). Unsure of 1915 date?. In 1910 lived on Hoyt. Lived on Wetmore 1915. in 1917 lived on 2120 Oakes with wife Margaret
2010: Henry O. Bartholomew house (1910).
2008: Earl J. Williams house (1948).
2002: Holman house (1950).
1900 Baker block
From Riverside Historical Overlay records
1932: Milton. A. Blount house (1919).
1922: Milton. A. Blount house (1919). Milton A. Blount, traveling salesman, 1912 lived at 3417 Norton,1910 and 1911 lived at 1909 Hoyt, worked for Cort & Co. which EE Blumer and Cort had real estate business at 1905 Hewitt
1921: John Blacken may have built? house (1927). John Blacken -- carpenter, 2902 19th, office on Colby, was 2817 Victor
1918: house (1910). 1912 Polk: Oscar Berg, laborer. Wife Ragna.. Moved a lot. 1912?
1914: house (1967). 1910 Polk: Walter Carl, setter Salzer Mill Co.
1912: house (1910). Note from Polk 1910: (1910 Baker) Wellington R Gould laborer at Clough and Hartley
1908: John Lund house (1905). 1905 Polk: John Lund, machinist, Great Northern Railway
John Rasmussen (1601 Virginia) and John Lund were Proprieters of Puget Sound Iron Works, foot Hewitt Ave (bayside)
1928: Milton. A. Blount house (1919).
Silvester Dockery house (1910)
Jack O'Donnell collection
Sylvester Dockery was a foreman for the Eclipse Mill Company. His wife was Agnes.
