The Knutsen House on Old Olympic Highway
Like most of us, I’ve driven past this farmhouse a number of times and always wondered about its history.
On the Peninsula Passage website in a very interesting an article by Lisa-Ann I found that it is indeed one of the original kit houses offered by Sears and Roebuck, and that it originally belonged to the Knutsen family, followed by a list of others. So if you’ve wondered about it too, I highly encourage you to visit the site and indulge your curiosities as well. Lisa-Ann is to be commended for her intense research, as well as her photos.
But because of the house’s age and uniqueness, I chose to render my version of it as a sketch, not because of a sketchy past…but because I envisioned it the way it must have appeared in the Sears catalog, which now makes me wonder about the original price as well.
