{"id":2553,"date":"2020-08-19T23:43:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T23:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:26:11","slug":"east-stanwood-busy-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/?p=2553","title":{"rendered":"East Stanwood Busy Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This view shows North side of 271st St NW in Stanwood looking northwest.\u00a0 \u00a0From left the buildings are the Granary (distant left, originally known as the People’s Union), an unknown storefront, the N. V. KIng Building (1921), the 1918 Mercantile (behind the telephone pole), a cafe and the Depot Service Station garage with its East Stanwood Busy Corner sign. The cafe and service station burned in 1997. Photograph from the SAHS Collection 1995.28.21.<\/p><\/div>\n

Some might be aware that Stanwood was once two towns:<\/strong> Stanwood (near river) and “East Stanwood” (near the railroad tracks).<\/p>\n

The corner just east of the Stanwood Station had a small gas station with an awning that advertised itself as East Stanwood Busy Corner<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u00a0It was a popular stop on the Pacific Highway between Everett and points north before Stanwood was bypassed in the 1930s.\u00a0 In the 1950s the gas station went into the auto part business no longer selling autos.\u00a0 It was called “East Stanwood Auto Parts” operated by Mrs. Charles Yngve. (Stanwood News 1960 Progress edition, August 11, 1960)<\/span><\/p>\n

In August 1997 the historic buildings that were once the Depot Service Station, a garage and the caf\u00e9 (next door) burned in a two alarm fire.\u00a0 The businesses in the buildings at the time were the <\/span>Eastside Salon<\/i>, the gift store <\/span>Emma’s Cottage <\/i>and the antique\u00a0shop, <\/span>Yo Mama’s Attic<\/i>.\u00a0 Firefighters prevented the fire from spreading to other businesses but managed to save the 1918 Mercantile.\u00a0 The owner at the time had to demolish the fire damaged buildings and currently that space is a grassy open space across from the Stanwood Railroad Station.\u00a0 Read on..<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The white concrete building is the East Stanwood Mercantile popularly know as the Stubb Mercantile.<\/p><\/div>\n

When the museum opens again for visits, you can see a small exhibit that displays more photographs of this story but for now, perhaps this property can be the first East Stanwood Busy Corner Park<\/a> as part of the City of Stanwood’s Main Street Revitalization Program.<\/p>\n

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The Mercantile.\u00a0 Photo taken in 2003.<\/p><\/div>\n

The original 1914 East Stanwood Mercantile store business was established by Otto Stubb and Andrew Frederickson. In 1917 Frederickson sold his interest to Otto Stubb but in 1918 the building was destroyed in a fire. The new concrete building that still stands was completed in October 1918.\u00a0 But there could be no grand opening ceremony because of the Influenza epidemic. (Stanwood News<\/em> Oct 18, 1918).\u00a0 One month later, the Armistice was signed ending World War I.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 See below…<\/p>\n

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Opened to the public Oct 19…”The building is certainly a credit to the community … [who] will wish the proprietors, Messrs. Otto Stubb and O. C. Amundson the best of luck…”\u00a0 Stanwood Tidings Oct 18, 1918.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some might be aware that Stanwood was once two towns: Stanwood (near river) and “East Stanwood” (near the railroad tracks). The corner just east of the Stanwood Station had a small gas station with an awning that advertised itself as East Stanwood Busy Corner.\u00a0 \u00a0It was a popular stop on the Pacific Highway between Everett […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16,15,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-exhibits","category-historic-sites-tour","category-historical-photographs","category-short-historical-articles-about-camano-island-and-stanwood-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5209,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}