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 810 Central Ave., Sedro-Woolley, Washington, 98284Home of the Tarheel Stomp Mortimer Cook slept here & named the town Bug |
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| David and Dr. Georgianna Batey with their granddaughter Anna. |
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This is the architect's drawing of Hotel Sedro. We do not have an actual photo of it but we hope that a reader will have one in an old scrapbook. The Sedro Land & Improvement Co. partnership headed by Norman Kelley and Junius Brutus Alexander designed it as a 3-story luxury hotel, with gravity flush toilets, possibly the first ones in the county. It was located on the west side of Third street, about where the high school gymnasium stands now. The Pioneer Block of businesses stood across the street where the present high school was built in 1911. That were the nucleus of new-Sedro and businesses such as Bingham Bank and Holland Drugs burned in 1894 when the hotel was nearly destroyed by fire. Alexander donated the former hotel-lots for the site of the Carnegie Library, which opened on Oct. 28, 1915, and was torn down in 1963 for the gymnasium. That decision is still debated in hindsight as being one of the worst in Sedro-Woolley history. The hotel was meant to house visitors and investors to the booming town of Sedro. The depot for the Seattle Lake Shore & Eastern Railway was located west from the hotel, about where the western end of the high school football field is. There were even plans afoot to compete for the county seat, but hopes were dashed for that in the election of 1892. But the real problem for the hotel was that P.A. Woolley was already building his company town ten blocks northwest and when three trains finally crossed there, both the SLS&E depot and the Hotel Sedro were doomed. The final nail in the coffin of new-Sedro and the hotel came with the nationwide financial panic of 1893, which led to a Depression that greatly reduced production and trade in most of the Northwest for the next three years. Within a year of being built in 1890 the hotel went bankrupt and in 1897 it burned to the ground. If you know anyone who has photos or documents of Hotel Sedro, the SLS&E depot or the new-Sedro area of the 1890s, please email us with a scanned attachment or mail copies. See below for details. |
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Would you like information about how to join them? Oliver-Hammer Clothes Shop at 817 Metcalf Street in downtown Sedro-Woolley, 88 years. Peace and quiet at the Alpine RV Park, just north of Marblemount on Hwy 20, day, week or month, perfect for hunting or fishingPark your RV or pitch a tent by the Skagit River, just a short drive from Winthrop or Sedro-Woolley Joy's Sedro-Woolley Bakery-Cafe at 823 Metcalf Street in downtown Sedro-Woolley. Check out Sedro-Woolley First section for links to all stories and reasons to shop here firstor make this your destination on your visit or vacation. Are you looking to buy or sell a historic property, business or residence?We may be able to assist. Email us for details. |
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