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The Secrets of Garfield Gulch

by Marshall McClintock

Originally presented January 22, 2009 for the North Slope Historic District

 

Another look at the 1896 Sanderson map, this time of N. I Street between N. 6th (not shown on right) and N. 8th (not shown on left).

--N. 7th was never built through.

--Gulch is spanned by fill between log retaining walls for about 300 ft.

 

-Houses shown to right of gulch are:

----613 N. I built in 1889 (extant)

----614 N. I built in 1889 (extant)

 

-Houses shown to left of gulch are:

----717 N. I built in 1889 for Col. Coiner (extant)

----714, 718, 720 all built in 1893 for Charles Drury (extant)

 

-In 1903, city “vacates” N. 7th from Yakima to N. J. In-fill probably began in 1903.

-Later houses built on gulch fill on north side of N. I:

----619 N. I in 1906 by Heath & Twichell (extant) for Johnson

----627 (701?) N. I in 1908 by Heath & Twichell (extant)

----703 N. I in 1961 apartment (extant)

----707 N. I in 1926 (extant) for William Nichols

----711 N. I in 1961 apartment (extant)

 

-Later houses built on gulch fill on south side of N. I:

----620 N. I in 1951 apartment (extant)

----624 N. I in 1908 by Heath & Twichell (extant) for Anderson

 

-Later houses built on high ground of south side on N. I.

----Early lookout on this bluff specially identified as Job Carr’s Mountain

----702 (1902), Designed by A. Russell for Albert Rhodes, it faced the gulch with its side to street.

----708 (1903)

----710 (1905) Designed by A. Russell for Wm. Nichols.

 

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