These two photographs show the century-old Eddy family farmhouse shortly after it was built, and as it last appeared. The Eddy family included legendary Snoqualmie tribal elder Mary Louie who was a well-known healer and midwife. She died some years past her hundredth birthday and was still walking from the Plateau to the Yakima Valley long past the age when most people have retired to their rocking chairs.

The first photo of the house was taken around 1920, shortly after George Eddy took out a $700 mortgage to pay for its construction. Like many early structures, at least part of the foundation consisted of tree stumps (two of which are visible below and to the right of the open door). The fairly small trees in the background show that this area (west of Big Block Park) had been logged off about twenty years earlier.

The last owners sold the old farm two years ago for $1,300,000 to a developer who moved the house onto cribbing at the edge of the original property. The second photo shows the house as it was last seen before being demolished.

This photo shows the Reard/Freed farmhouse shortly after being moved to its new location. The house was built in 1890 by German immigrant Jacob Reard who farmed the property for ten years before selling it and moving to Ephrata. The farm changed hands over the next few years, doubling as a community dance hall and bootleg distillery along the way, until 1934 when Dorothy and Oscar Freed moved in. The Freeds used an existing 3,000 square foot, two-story chicken coop to house 3,500 hens. Soon they were sending 1,500 eggs per day into Seattle by train. When the well dried up in 1945, Oscar started the first water district on the Plateau and managed it from his dining room/office until 1977. Both Freeds died before the end of the decade and the house remained empty until 1996 when John Buchan Homes bought the whole property to build The Crossings at Pine Lake. Buchan saved the farmhouse by moving it to the edge of the property where it sat for fourteen years until the Sammamish Heritage Society organized its relocation to one of the parcels donated to the city by Mary Piggot and destined to become part of Big Rock Park.

The photo above shows the house in its current state, part-way through restoration.

This photograph shows the century-old Eddy family farmhouse shortly after it was built. The Eddy family included legendary Snoqualmie tribal elder Mary Louie who was a well-known healer and midwife. She died some years past her hundredth birthday and was still walking from the Plateau to the Yakima Valley long past the age when most people have retired to their rocking chairs.

The photo was taken around 1920, shortly after George Eddy took out a $700 mortgage to pay for its construction. Like many early structures, at least part of the foundation consisted of tree stumps (two of which are visible below and to the right of the open door). The fairly small trees in the background show that this area (west of Big Block Park) had been logged off about twenty years earlier.
The last owners sold the old farm two years ago for $1,300,000 to a developer who cleared the property and tore down the house.