Anacortes house that burned predated statehood, city incorporation
There was a lot of history in the three-story house at 3903 H Ave. in Anacortes. On Dec. 22, the once grand house and its 135 years of history were reduced by fire to a pile of wood and brick. It was built in 1885 and was one of the oldest structures in Anacortes. When its builder and first occupant, Scottish-born rancher William Gray, homesteaded 160 acres here in 1882, the fledgling town had only a hotel on Second Street near Cap Sante, used as a lodging home by early settlers; and the Bowman Store and Post Office. Only 30 years earlier, the region’s Indigenous leaders signed the Treaty o...
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