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History of the Welcome Center

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Mrs. Croft last week purchased two lots on Center avenue, opposite the Presbyterian church, and will soon let a contract for the erection of a hotel and lodging house.
1901
Mrs. Mary Croft purchases  lots 1 and 2, block 23 from the Northport Townsite Co. for $585
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July 31, 1901
The finishing touches are being put on Mrs. Croft's cottage hotel by Grier & Grier, painters.
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August 1901 USGS

By 1905, Mrs. Croft is a widow and sells the property.  Alice M. Janneck buys the two lots and house in 1906 for $1200. She purchases lot 3 in 1908 for $100 and lot 4 in 1909 for $75. The title is transfered to her father Albert L. Janneck in 1929, and he transfers the property to another of his daughters, Elizabeth S. Janneck in 1936.  We don't know when Elizabeth begins living in the house, but she resides there until 1951.

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The Janneck  house with a large garden about 1940

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In the early 1950's, Miss Janneck sells the house to Tony and Mable Gallo
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Tony and Mable Gallo raised their six children in the house and when they passed on, the youngest son, Tom, lived there until 2015.

[1]   The Lotze Family of Onion Creek by Anna Lotze Reeves
[2] Northport Pioneers by The Northport Over Forties Club
[3] Tony Gallo Jr.

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    • Smelter Monument
    • Fire House House
    • Cemeteries
  • A History of Northport
  • The Virtual Museum
    • What a Stranger Saw 1901
    • Schools
    • Landmarks >
      • landmarks page 2
      • The Opera House
      • Kendrick Mercantile
      • Smelter Pumping Station
    • Ferries
    • Bridging the Columbia
    • Northport Fires >
      • One More Fire
      • 1898 Fire
      • 1914 fire
      • School Gym
      • New Zealand Hotel fire
    • Northport Smelter 1897-1910 >
      • Washington Geologic Survey 1902
    • Northport Smelter 1916-1921 >
      • Washinton Geological Survey 1921
    • Waterfalls, Lakes and the Columbia River
    • other resources >
      • Powering Northport 1893-1942
      • Polk Directory 1911-1912
      • Polk Directory 1916-17
      • 1922 Phone Book
  • The Welcome Center Project
    • Case Statement
    • history
    • donate
  • membership application