HistoryLink Tours

Here sits the historic gem of the entire Everett waterfront, the Weyerhaeuser Office Building. The ornate, red-roofed structure is one of the few reminders that the Weyerhaeuser Company was Everett’s largest employer for many years. It was designed in Gothic style by Northwest architect Carl Gould to showcase the use of local woods, in particular, fir and hemlock. The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

The building was constructed two miles south of here in 1923 at the Weyerhaeuser Mill A site at the base of Rucker Hill, costing $30,000. It was moved three times, taking two of those trips around the Everett peninsula. In 1938, it was moved about 3 miles across town to the giant Weyerhaeuser Mill B complex along the Snohomish River. The building was shuttered in 1979 after Mill B ceased operations. In 1984 it was donated to the Everett Chamber of Commerce for $1 and moved about 2 miles southwest to the NW corner of Marine View Drive and 18th Street (where you stopped for the Clough-Hartley mill site).

In 2016, the 6,000-square-foot Weyerhaeuser Building was moved a final time to two-acre Boxcar Park, created by the Port of Everett. The building weighs 350 tons, including a 160-ton concrete safe. It stands in a very conspicuous and prestigious place on the Everett waterfront, having been restored by the Port of Everett.

Looking west across the Snohomish River channel is man-made Jetty Island. It was started in the late 1800s to protect the Everett harbor, and over the decades built up with dredged sediment.

Walk east and north around the waterfront on the promenade past the Fishermen’s Tribute statue on Craftsman Way. Stop about 300 feet north of the statue, just past the Port’s boat haul out area.