Columbia Crest Elementary School Lance, McGuire & Muri, arch. Charlie Skinner (Orting), contr. -school name chosen by contest winner Barbara Barnett -construction started May 1951 -open house 12/20/1951 TNT 7/12/1950 p.1 Site picked for school TNT 2/1/1951 p.29 School bids due Feb. 13 TNT 2/23/1951 TNT 4/29/1951 p.A17 Schools are expanding (il) TNT 11/25/1951 p.A19 New school shapes up (il under construction) TNT 4/24/1955 p.D18 Mountain school has unique forestation plan TNT 6/2/1957 p.B7 Tough Rosie's bad days are over (il of cat) TNT 3/10/1958 p.1 Icicle flouts nature's law, points up TNT 2/2/1964 p.A12 (il) 979.778 J651U p.67,72 (il)
Built circa 1905 Ashford Public School Highlander Restaurant -school bldg. damaged by fire in 1949, restaurant built on the school's basement/foundation TNT 2/17/1957 One-room school yields to motorized age (il) (?) 979.778 J651U p.80,81 (il)
Ashford General Store -later known as Von's General Store, Ashford Country Store, Suver's General Store -purchased by Peter & Jan Suver in 1975 Eatonville Dispatch 2/27/2002 The old General Store lives on (il) 333.7 UP6N p.56 917.973 N123H p.120 (il) 979.778 J651U p.82 (il in 1978)
Built circa 1900 Painter's Art Gallery Joan Painter, operator Eatonville Dispatch 8/1/2007 p.A1 Truck drives into Painter Art Gallery (il) TNT 8/2/2009 p.E1 High culture (il)
Built by 1930 Mount Rainier Lions Hall -located where the town of National once existed, bldg. originally built by mill workers as a union hall 333.7 UP6N p.55
Built circa 1900 Summit Haus / Rainier Mountaineering, Inc. Peter & Erika Whittaker, operator -bldg. built c.1900 as Foghorn Mary's Ten Dollar Cafe, later occupied by a dry goods store, antique store, art gallery Eatonville Dispatch 12/12/2001 Second generation moves up
Built circa 1905 Ashford Creek Pottery -built c.1905 as a road maintenance shop/snowplow shed Eatonville Dispatch 6/9/2004 p.A3 New gallery opens in Ashford (interior il)
Built circa 1905 National Sawmill Co., Superintendent's Residence -built c.1905 by the Pacific National Lumber Co. in the former settlement known as National -later occupied by Mountain Meadows Bed & Breakfast TNT 4/7/1957 p.A16 Town's sale doesn't upset National, folks figure its all to the good 333.7 UP6N p.55 979.7 H646H p.190
Built circa 1900 Rainier Overland Restaurant & Lodge -formerly the site of the Duke Moore Family Lodge Eatonville Dispatch 8/22/2001 p.B1 Rainier Overland has long history ----- Paradise Valley Hotel & Restaurant Anatoliy Zaika, operator Eatonville Dispatch 10/16/2019 p.1 Rainier restaurant serves up more than tourism (interior il)
Copper Creek Restaurant -bldg. built as a service station in 1935, converted into a restaurant in 1946 by Rosalea Triggs and Hank Canty -world famous pies baked by Jeannie Zuelich beginning in 1954 -"It's Home from the Range" Seattle Times 11/14/1954 p.7 Fantasies from the forests (wood curios collected by Hank Canty) Northwest Living May 1987 p.6 The Pie Lady of Copper Creek TNT 3/16/1981 p.A13 (obituary of Rosalea Triggs Lucash) Eatonville Dispatch 1/27/1999 Up on Copper Creek (il) Eatonville Dispatch 4/11/2001 p.1 ... to open soon under new ownership Eatonville Dispatch 10/31/2001 p.1 Haunted valley Eatonville Dispatch 4/11/2018 p.1 Copper Creek Inn still impresses nearly 100 years after opening (il) 333.7 UP6N p.56 917.973 N123H p.41 (il) 979.778 J651U p.85 (il)
