Tag: historic preservation

NARA Seattle

The National Archives and Records Administration building in Seattle is slated for closure, which could send countless invaluable records, including tribal records, out of state and far away. To understand the purpose of this building and why it’s important to keep these records in our state, please see Seattle Now & Then: National Archives and […]

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Salsuginis Bye and Bye

Safe indeed by land to journey,But the way is rough and trying,Long the road and full of turnings;Lovely is the ship on ocean,Beautiful to ride the billows,Journey easy o’er the waters,Sailing in a trusty vessel;Should the West-wind cross our pathway,Will the South-wind drive us northward… The Kalevala, Rune XXXIX If you are a regular here […]

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Last Call

If the Ericksen House in Bothell, Washington isn’t moved in March, it will be destroyed. The house and its neighbor have been sitting there patiently waiting for someone to move them. But despite being *FREE*, as in, COMPLETELY FREE BUILDINGS, no one has come for them. I wrote about these buildings in last October’s Necrotic […]

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205 Cedar Street

Tuesday, March 12th, 2019. Kirkland, Washington. As traffic screams by on Kirkland Way south of NE 85th Street I pull into a gravel parking lot to get a better view of an old white house on the east side. When I’d passed it the previous weekend I wondered why I hadn’t investigated it before. I […]

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Saving St. Edward

Just across a shining sea from the Emerald City, up a meandering path through an enchanted forest, sits a castle. Ages ago, an order of religious men built this castle to train their priests. It had a divine purpose. There they lived and worked. Decades passed, and almost half a century later, its original purpose […]

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