By 1900 most of Lowell, Pinehurst and our neighborhood had been logged, surveyed and platted.  There were many stump farms and homesteads with no electricity or running water.  Logger’s skid roads provided the only access to homesteads and transportation to the market was nonexistent.  When the Interurban electric railway came to Everett in 1910 it open the doors for transportation and it brought electricity along the route.  The Everett Golf & Country Club was also established in 1910 and they hoped to draw members and upscale home builders to the newly named Beverly Park Neighborhood that was named after the famous Beverly Tennis & Golf Club in Massachusetts. Real estate developers wasted no time in offering lots for sale to the public.  It was marketed as “progress” moving away from the frontier to civilization with electric power for all. Funny how things don’t change.

After 100 years, you may be wondering “Where is Central Park?”  The Everett School District Administration property, on Colby, is the southern boundary and 43rd Street is the north boundary. It encompasses Colby, Hoyt, Rucker, Maryland, Delaware and Carlton.  The plat map identifies a very small triangle park at the intersection of Rucker & 47th that never materialized.

In the Central Park neighborhood you’ll find a wide range of pre-WWII styles from eclectic revivals such as Mission and Tudor to Craftsman bungalow cottages. Many with original ornamentation details left intact; such as Clinker brick chimneys.  I recently met Susan and Daryl Presley who live on Hoyt and toured their 1932 Tudor Revival that they bought in 2004, which they have pristinely maintained and recently repainted in a deep earth green. Susan graduated from Cascade High School in 1979 and she has been a bankruptcy paralegal for more than 20 years. Daryl is originally from California and he works for the Everett Parks Dept. They spend as much time in their yard as the weather allows; and it shows. For all their hard work, they have won a Rejuvenation and Transformation Monte Cristo Award!


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