The Knutsen House on Old Olympic Highway
Like most of us, I’ve driven past this farmhouse a number of times and always wondered about its history.
On the Peninsula Passage website in a very interesting an article by Lisa-Ann I found that it is indeed one of the original kit houses offered by Sears and Roebuck, and that it originally belonged to the Knutsen family, followed by a list of others. So if you’ve wondered about it too, I highly encourage you to visit the site and indulge your curiosities as well. Lisa-Ann is to be commended for her intense research, as well as her photos.
But because of the house’s age and uniqueness, I chose to render my version of it as a sketch, not because of a sketchy past…but because I envisioned it the way it must have appeared in the Sears catalog, which now makes me wonder about the original price as well.
Odd to think of mail order houses.
Yes, but I sometimes wonder if Amazon won’t do the same at some point!