This is the closest I could get to view the house. You can only see the top part of the house. From the back I can see scaffolding and ladders around the house so I see they are restoring it. Good!!
There is a rather sad story. H.C. Anderson who had many fingers in the early Stanwood pie built the house for his wife Ida. As a young man he came to Stanwood from Norway in 1887. He farmed and became an important person in Stanwood. He founded the First National Bank of Stanwood among other things. In 1913 he built the large white mansion on the hill east of Stanwood. He and his wife Ida never got to live in it. Their son became ill and Ida fell under the spell of a 'doctor' and nurse who believed in starvation for a cure. Their son died and Ida, not well herself, continued to follow the starvation regime and died in 1913. HC died a year later. And that is all I could find. Who took ownership of the house after that I don't know, but it is still called the Klondike Mansion. HC was called Klondike because he had worked in Alaska. (so the story goes)
I am off to visit my Mother. MB
