The City of Sumner has been working for the past few years to renovate the historic Ryan House. Last week, those restoration plans abruptly changed.
The City of Sumner has been working for the past few years to renovate and restore the historic. The Victorian-style home on Main Street is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and includes sections that date to the 1870s and 1880s, before Washington even became a state.
In a grant application, a city document described the key role of the Ryan House in the city’s comprehensive plan. Once informed of the condition and the additional costs, the Sumner City Council voted last week to essentially “red tag” the building, and now it has to come down as soon as possible. That work, says Carmen Palmer, could begin as soon as November.
“So where was all of this when we were working to save it?” Palmer continued. “And I really wish we had seen this groundswell then. It was . . . in the media, but nothing.”
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