Old and free: Monroe mill operators' 1903 houses up for grabs

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To Monroe property owner Emanuel Popa, two old houses are in the way. He wants to build an apartment complex. To Tami Kinney, of the Monroe Historical Society, they’re gems from a time when a prominent family ran Buck’s Shingle Mill. To anyone willing to move the 1903 dwellings, they’re quite a deal — free.

“I can’t imagine these houses torn down,” said Kinney, a trustee of the historical society and its former president.

She’d like to see one or both of the houses, now rentals at 135 S. Ann St. and 143 S. Ann St., repurposed for retail, a restaurant, salon or Chamber of Commerce offices, “the kind of just lovely stuff we see in Snohomish.”

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Popa has owned the houses about two years, and rents out their upstairs and main floor apartments.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/old-and-free-monroe-mill-operators-1903-houses-up-for-grabs/

[KT2000]

1. Hope they are saved!

Nickels Brothers really know what they are doing and housing is needed.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I read recently of old houses being disassembled

and the materials being sold, because they are better than new materials.
People buy the brick, they value the old wood on the floors, etc. and even buy the supporting beams.

Would much rather see dis-assembly vs filling a dump.