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New 2012 calendar features diverse architecture designed by Earl Morrison Learn about the local architect who designed an abundant variety of iconic buildings and sites throughout Washington State. This is the third calendar featuring an architect's body of work in Everett and includes a self-guided tour map plus a chronology of special event dates. Historic Everett has published a limited quantity to support its nonprofit programs, tours and projects. Featured buildings include Civic Auditorium, Central Building, Medical & Dental Building, and both North and South Jr. High School's. Growing up in Spokane, Earl Wilson Morrison refined his education in architecture in Chicago and returned to design dozens of houses in Spokane starting in 1909. He expanded his reputation in Wenatchee building public schools, Elks Temple and Chelan County Courthouse. Two contracts for schools in Everett brought Morrison west in 1924 to partner on many projects in western Washington.
Use your cell phone to take the A great new way to explore the city of Everett's downtown and historic sites is now available to cell phone and even tablet users. This new cell phone tour, developed to highlight the community and its cultural significance, is a great activity for families or out-of-town visitors to the Everett area. Snohomish County Tourism produced the fifth "Cyber Tour" in the County which also incudes tours of Snohomish, Granite Falls, local Aviation Adventures and the Mountain Loop Highway. To access the Everett Cyber Tour of Historic Places on any cell phone to listen to audio tour info call 425-249-0212. Smart phone users can view video descriptions for the historic sites at myoncell.mobi/14252490212. Each of the 77 stops on the tour is also shows the GPS location using the mobile web page. The two sections of the Everett tour feature all the Historic Register properties and the newly designated Hewitt Avenue National Historic District buildings. A tour guide map is available for visitors to print out and copies are located at visitor centers throughout Snohomish County. The tour content and brochure was created by David Chrisman at Momentum Creative with historic building descriptions written by Jack O'Donnell. David Blacker lent his voice to the narration and photos were sourced from the Everett Public Library NW History Room by David Dilgard, supplemented with postcard images from the collections of O'Donnell and Larry Wold. The award-winning mobile tour company OnCell Systems provided the web-based platform which is used by museums, zoos, and cultural tours to create an interactive experience for visitors to access anywhere, anytime with a cell phone, smartphone or tablet. The mobile tour technology allows groups to create powerful learning experiences using audio, images and video for visitors along with additional "edutainment" features such as quizzes and text messaging.
"Moore" appropriate building needed for former mayor City Hall rename proposal needs policy exemption first By MICHAEL WHITNEY
Where is the world is the 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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