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Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center
D. O. Pearson House, Stanwood 
(National Register of Historic Places). 
The D. O. Pearson House was the home of the first mayor of Stanwood. He arrived in the area when it was still called Centreville and established the town’s first general store in 1877.  As Postmaster, he renamed the town Stanwood for his wife, Clara.  Stanwood was her maiden name.  The house was built in 1890.  It was placed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places in 1973. It is a three-story Second Empire Victorian Home with a mansard roof and roof cresting (or widow's walk) and is open as a Period House Museum
Little White Church on the Hill, 
Silvana, Washington
(Washington State Register of Historic Places, 1972)
The building was completed in 1890 with funds raised by the ladies aid of the congregation which formed about 1882-1884 The church is located about 1/2 mile west of Silvana on Pioneer Highway (just over the bridge) overlooking the scenic Stillaguamish River Valley. For more information click here
Toftezen Memorial, Lutheran Cemetery
Pioneer Highway, Stanwood.
Martin Zacharias Toftezon (Taftezon) Washington's first Norwegian settler arrived on Whidbey Island in 1849.  Members of his family followed and settled near Hatt Slough (on the Stillaguamish River.)
Hevly Cash Store at Florence, Washington circa 1910.   Florence was one of the earliest towns on the Stillaguamish River in Snohomish County.  It was platted in 1866 and actively competed with Stanwood (downriver) as a commercial center until the Great Northern Railroad bypassed it and the steamboats could no longer make it up the river.  There are only a few residences left it the area and one section of the original store.
The Utsalady Ladies Aid Building was built in 1923.  Utsalady is on the northern shoreline of Camano Island in Puget Sound, the site of an early mill.  It was and continues to be an important symbolic place as the heart of this small community on Camano Island in Washington State.  In 1999 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Camano Pioneer Cemetery,
located on Hwy 532 at Terry's Corner
Camano Island, Washington
This cabin was originally part of the Cama Beach Resort which is soon to re-open as Cama Beach State Park.  This resort opened in 1934 and closed officially in 1989.  Washington State Parks purchased it in the early 1990's and it is now being developed as a new State Park. It is scheduled to re-open in 2006.  It is on the National Register of Historic Places. 
Camano Lutheran Church, Camano Island 
Washington State Register of Historic Places
The Camano Lutheran Church was established in 1890 in Utsalady. In 1895, the congregation held services in the Livingston Bay school which was located across the road. That school was bought and moved on site and now is the Pioneer Hall. Construction of this church building began in 1904 and was dedicated July 9, 1906. There is a small plaque near the front door of the old church (east entrance) noting that it is on the State Register of Historic Places.
The traditional white schoolhouse building on the right is now known as the Camano City Community Hall. It overlooks Saratoga Passage on the western shoreline of Camano Island where there once was a shingle mill, store, hotel and a short logging railroad. It was built as the Camano City School about 1906.
Stanwood Fraternal International Order of Odd Fellows Hall (IOOF), Stanwood, now the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, Stanwood, WA
Built in 1903, this sturdy timber structure has survived many years to host music, arts and cultural and family events as it once did in the early part of the 20th century.

From the left, is the Stanwood Area History Museum(1990), Stanwood's D.O.Pearson House (circa 1890), Tolin House (1880s) located on the corner on the 102nd Ave. NW (Old Pacific Highway or Market Street), one of the oldest streets in Snohomish County.  On the far right is the former Stanwood Fraternal I.O.O.F Hall (1903), now known as the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center.
These buildings are the oldest buildings in Stanwood dating to the early 1890s located two blocks from the Stillaguamish River waterfront, once a steamboat stop for the lumber and grain produced by the two nearby sawmills and surrounding farms.