The group of West Seattle volunteers known as Save The Stone Cottage are offering tours of the distinctive structure this Saturday.
Decorated by Eva Falk back in the 1930s, the residence sat along Harbor Avenue for a century before the property was purchased by developers a few years ago. Save The Stone Cottage, with theserving as fiscal agent, was created by a group of neighbors who wanted to preserve the structure and find a new home for it. In August 2021, it was trucked a mile or so and put in storage on Port of Seattle property.
The roadside landmark was originally just a little wooden cottage along Harbor Avenue, with a drop-dead amazing view of Elliott Bay and downtown Seattle. But Eva Falk was apparently something of an iconoclast or bohemian, and sometime during the Great Depression, she decided to take her simple wooden house and decorate the exterior with stones., which was in South Seattle here,” said Mike Shaughnessy, one of the volunteers who helped lead the preservation effort.
Eva Falk died in 1997 at age 92. Her family lived in the house until they sold the property to developers back in 2018. When that happened, pretty much everyone thought the little cottage was doomed.What Shaughnessy and his group did was convince the developers to give them the cottage. They then raised enough money via a GoFundMe campaign to, last August, carefully move the fragile landmark from its original location.
Save The Stone Cottage had been in talks with Seattle Parks and Recreation and local elected officials about finding an appropriate spot on public land, perhaps near the Alki bathhouse. Those talks were interrupted and delayed by the pandemic, and now some of the players have changed as a result of elections and other attrition – so the group is, in some ways, starting over again with the City of Seattle.
Meanwhile, says Shaughnessy, if a place on public land can’t be secured, they have do have a ‘Plan B’ involving nearby
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