{"id":2987,"date":"2021-04-01T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T19:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2021-04-02T23:58:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:58:24","slug":"d-o-pearsons-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/?p=2987","title":{"rendered":"D. O. Pearson&#8217;s gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2986\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2986\" class=\"wp-image-2986 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20047901-e1617305134925-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20047901-e1617305134925-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20047901-e1617305134925-747x1024.jpg 747w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20047901-e1617305134925-768x1052.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20047901-e1617305134925-1121x1536.jpg 1121w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20047901-e1617305134925-624x855.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20047901-e1617305134925.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flaval Pearson, daughter of Fred Pearson, granddaughter of D. O. Pearson in their garden north of the FNCC.\u00a0 \u00a02004.79.01<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our recent clearance of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/?p=2925\">lot on 102nd Ave<\/a> just north of the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center has opened up a large city lot that apparently had been empty until 1971 when the house was built.\u00a0 \u00a0Just by chance we happened to discover these two photographs in our collection and some notes that show this garden on lot in the 1920s &#8211; 40s.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently D. O. Pearson and perhaps his son Fred, used this lot as a garden.\u00a0 Here are two photograph of his Fred&#8217;s daughers, Claire and Flaval in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>The snapshots were donated by Claire Payne in one of her visits to the Pearson House from her home in Spokane.\u00a0 The lower photograph is her sister Flaval who became the Anacortes librarian in 1939.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2985 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20047912-e1617407119535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"575\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3000\" style=\"width: 828px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/99_23_13_cropt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"818\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/99_23_13_cropt.jpg 818w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/99_23_13_cropt-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/99_23_13_cropt-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/99_23_13_cropt-624x401.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1948 cropped aerial photograph of the gardens north of the FNCC (former I.O.O.F. Hall ) Photographer: J. Boyd Ellis.\u00a0 \u00a0By 1948 the roofline of the FNCC is no longer peaked.\u00a0 The house in the top right photograph was moved one lot north of the gardens in 1976.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our recent clearance of the lot on 102nd Ave just north of the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center has opened up a large city lot that apparently had been empty until 1971 when the house was built.\u00a0 \u00a0Just by chance we happened to discover these two photographs in our collection and some notes that show this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-houses","category-historical-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","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=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3004,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}