Locals honored at preservation awards
June 5, 2009
By Michael Rowe
North Bend City Councilman David Cook, the Northwest Railways Museum, and the Woodman Lodge were recognized May 29 for working to preserve historic structures.
The recognition came at the annual John D. Spellman Historic Preservation Awards, which was held this year at the Meadowbrook Farm Interpretive Center.
Cook restored a 1910 bank building on North Bend Way for his real estate offices. The project began in 2006 and took three years to complete. After a non-historic remodel in the 1970s, the former bank building became a Chinese restaurant with an alpine motif.
The work was funded in part by a $20,000 grant from King County’s 4Culture agency, which supports historic preservation and arts in the county. The city of North Bend also gave $6,000 for improvements to the building’s façade, a program that is available yearly for businesses in the downtown area that want to improve their exteriors. He relied on photos from 1929 to get the historic remodeling of the building right.
Cook has championed downtown revitalization as a member of the City Council.
The Northwest Railways Museum received an award for its restoration of a 1945 White River Lumber Caboose. Museum Director Richard Anderson accepted the prize along with a group of volunteers who performed much of the caboose’s restoration.
The museum received a $25,000 grant from 4Culture for the caboose project.
The Woodman Lodge restaurant in downtown Snoqualmie also received an award for its adaptation of the former fraternal order’s building into a fine dining establishment. The building dates from 1902. In 2006, restaurant owner Peter LaHaye undertook the restoration and adaptation of the old building.
“It’s more than a steak house; the building has phenomenal history,” LaHaye said.
The award recognized the construction of an addition housing the restaurant’s kitchen that fits with the historic lodge building, without overly imitating its style.
Congressman Dave Reichert and King County Councilwoman Kathy Lambert presented the awards.
“Even the fastest growing communities are proud of our traditions and recognize our past,” said Lambert, about the historic preservation awards ceremony.
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