Welcome to LoisEdwardsHouse.com!

This website chronicles the adventure of saving a historic home from demolition. The house's original location was in downtown Snohomish, WA; it was relocated to a lot on the Old Snohomish Monroe Road, about five miles away. The house last belonged to a Lois Edwards, until 1996, after which it was purchased by the Snohomish School District with future plans of expanding the High School campus onto its lot. In August of 2005, the school district put the structure up for auction, hoping to find someone to relocate it. And, I won it, for one dollar! But, that was just the beginning of the journey, and the first of many dollars spent...

The house move happened Sunday, June 25th, 2006 from 10pm to 4am.

An interesting article about house moving in general, by the Everett Herald (who also covered my house move).
 

Lois Edwards and her daughter Camisha stopped by December 2006 to visit and take pictures of their old house. It was fun to visit with them and learn what the house looked like when they lived in it (about 20 years, from the seventies to 1996). Camisha's memory was how comfortable she found the soaking tub, and she is right, they don't make 'em like they used to! They didn't know much about the house's history.

One clue I have: by incredible serendipity, one day day after my garbage cans had been emptied by the pickup men, I happened to notice a tiny folded paper that stayed behind in the bottom of the can. The garbage in the can that week had been waste material from the electricians emptying out insulation material from the walls to pull wires. How that paper stayed in the can when it was dumped, I'll never know, but I was lucky to find it. It was a $1 receipt for "book fund", made out to Betty Schusler August 31, 1939; four years after the house was built. So, I'm hoping someone can help me find the Schusler family so I can learn more history!