Silver Lake Neighborhood

Photo courtesy ARCA Architects
Silver Lake Action Committee Meeting
WHEN: May 1, 2008, 7:00pm
WHERE: Silverlake Childcare Center, 11525 19th
(corner Bothell-Evt Hwy & 116th)
GUEST FOR MAY: Alan Clark (ARCA Architects) will review
plans for new Silver Lake Center at the north end of the lake,
including 8-story condos, restaurant, new Safeway, and commercial
space.
Meetings are scheduled: 7 p.m. on the first Thursday
of the months of September, October, March, April and May. Special
meetings are called as events dictate.
Previous guests:
April 2008: Shannon Affholter, Everett City Council; and
developer proposal for "Eastmont Station" at former
Home Base with Tony Kastens from Real Capital.
March 2008: Hal Gausman, Everett Parks RE: Silver Lake
Trail prelim. plans

Photo courtesy Everett Public Library NW Room
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Historic Neighborhoods:
Bayside
Lowell
Northwest
Port
Gardner/Rucker Hill
Riverside
Silver
Lake
Learn more at the Everett
Office of Neighborhoods
HISTORIC EVERETT TO NOMINATE LOCAL
LANDMARK:
Bothne House on Silver Lake
HANS BOTHNE was born in Botnen,
Norway in 1878. He emigrated to the United States and became
a citizen in 1906. Initially he was drawn to Alaska in search
of gold, returning to Washington State with enough money to acquire
the beachfront property at Silver Lake in 1913 with his business
partner Nels Peters. They opened a beach resort just south of
the present city beach.
Bothne married a North Dakota woman of Norwegian ancestry and
initially they resided in a little houseboat on the lake. His
bride narrowly survived the flu epidemic of 1918 and gave birth
to a daughter in the cabin-on-a-raft early in 1919.
Hans bought more land and when Everett's YMCA burned in the spring
of 1920, he bought the salvage rights and moved the building,
board by board, to the western shore of Silver Lake. The lumber,
portico columns, railings, windows, doors, lockers, pipes, even
the nails, were reclaimed and resurrected into two houses and
a pair of cabins. For some reason the Palladian windows in the
east and west gable ends of the old YMCA were saved but never
installed. Of the four buildings constructed from YMCA salvage,
only the Bothne residence survives (see photo top left). Hans'
son Donald was born in the house on February 15, 1921.
Historic Everett preservation group is set to nominate the historic
family homestead as an icon of lakeside life. It hopes to work
with the Everett Parks Dept and Silver Lake neighbors to ensure
it's place as an interpretive center connected to the Sullivan
Park.
Article from Historic Everett
Fall 2007 Newsletter
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