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Help delay demolition of the historic
Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Main Office Building!

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Please take a moment to submit your comments to the City of Everett Planning Department. It’s easy—see details below.

Kimberly Clark has applied for a permit to demolish all of the buildings on their property. They contend that there are no historic buildings on the site and that a further review of historic resources is not necessary. We disagree! We believe that many of the buildings on the site, especially the Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Office Building pictured above, are of historic importance and could be retained for the future owner. We ask that Kimberly Clark do a detailed survey of historic buildings prior to uniformly removing them all. As the last of the Everett mills, these buildings should be documented.

The city of Everett issued a proposed SEPA determination of non significance (DNS). You will find the DNS and supporting documents on the Everett Planning Department’s website under Kimberly Clark Land Use Application.

The public may comment on the proposed SEPA determination and request that the site be surveyed for historic resources prior to demolition. Please take a moment to submit your comments to the city. You may write your own letter or use the form letter we have provided. Simply fill in the blank fields with your name and contact information, or modify it as you wish, and deliver it to the City of Everett, by mail or in-person. (if you are unable to download the form letter, contact us at info@historiceverett.org and we will send it to you). Stay tuned for updates and information.

Comments are due by May 14th, 2012 at the
Planning Department
2930 Wetmore Ave, Suite 8A
Everett, WA 98201

Historical photo and front angle close-up are from Kimberly Clark, “List of Buildings (Prior to 1950)” available from the Planning Department’s website. Aerial photo was taken as part of a 2005 survey of historic properties performed by Kristin Ravetz and is available from the Washington Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation’s online Historic Property Inventory Database, WISAARD. Soundview historic photo from the collection of Jack O’Donnell.

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City Hall rename proposal needs
policy exemption first

City Hall
"Moore" appropriate building needed for former mayor

Everett Tribune


EVERETT - A citizen-initiated proposal to rename the old City Hall after former Mayor Bill Moore may need City Council intervention to make it happen.
The old City Hall is located at 3002 Wetmore Ave. and is listed on the National Historic Register of Places. In 2007, the council passed a policy banning renaming buildings listed on Everett’s historic register.

The city now might bring forward a “corrective action” to ask the council to bend the rules for this proposal, city spokeswoman Kate Reardon said last week.
The 2007 rule is “an unintended consequence in this particular case,” Reardon said.

The city’s historical commission cancelled last week’s scheduled public hearing because of the snag. People in groups such as Historic Everett oppose the move. They suggest renaming a different building after Moore, while others such as Gail Chism disagree with naming any building after Moore.

Both city business leaders and former staffers in Moore’s administration such as Reid Shockey, Jim Langus and Pat McClain submitted the proposal in June. Moore was mayor from 1977 to 1990 and was a councilman from 1969 to 1977. Moore died in 1997.

Councilman Jeff Moore is one of Bill Moore’s three children. Jeff Moore said previously he would recuse himself from any matter regarding the renaming.

Duthie barn

Where is the world is the
Collins Building?

Demolition of irreplaceable historic buildings is never the preferred course of action. That is why Historic Everett, the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation and the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation worked effectively for a mitigation plan for the loss of the Collins Building that would ensure its deconstruction and salvage of the massive old growth timbers which were the hallmarks of the iconic industrial building that sat on the shores of Port Gardner Bay for nearly a century.

We are pleased to report that nearly all of the 824 salvage pieces (totaling thousands of board feet) were given away, free of charge, to 15 projects throughout Washington State. Restoration projects had to either be on or eligible for a local, state or national register; government agencies were also included. The County Line Church in Adams County will get a new steeple and the entry restored. The Sheepherder's House, Van Dam Place, the Crockett Blockhouse and the Jenne Farm Summer Kitchen in the Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve on Whidbey Island are all recipients. Seven Heritage Barns in Klickitat, Skagit, Kitsap, Stevens, Clark, Wahkiakum and Snohomish Counties got structural and foundation elements that will go a long way in making them whole and productive components of small working farms on the rural landscape that has always been part of the foundation of our region's economy.

Of course, incorporation of the Collins Building would have been a tremendous benefit to Everett's waterfront, but there is some comfort in the fact it will live on for years to come by helping to preserve and promote the history of the 'American Frontier'.

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