PCAD - Stimson Mill Company, Lumber and Shingle Mill, Ballard, WA

Structure Type: built works - industrial buildings - factories; built works _ industrial buildings - processing plant

Postcard of the Stimson Mill Company, Lumber and Shingle Mill, Ballard, Seattle, WA, c. 1910. From the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), Postcard Collection, Item #1978.6586.1, accessed 03/08/2023

Postcard view of the Stimson Mill Company Shingle Mill, Ballard, Seattle, WA, c. 1910. From Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI), Postcard Collection, Image #1997.20.16

Receipt from the Stimson Mill Company, Seattle, Washington, April 20, 1893, with a lithographed image of the Ballard lumber facility, Ballard, WA, 1893. From the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections division, Edmond S. Meany Papers, 1893-1935, Item #PNW04908, accessed 02/23/2023

Site map of the Ballard City Hall, 1905, Ballard, WA. From Sanborn Insurance Maps of Seattle, Washington, 1905, vol. 4, map #388, from the Library of Congress, accessed 03/09/2023

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Overview

In 1895, the Stimson Mill Company operated a saw mill on the northeast corner of Shilshole Avenue and 3rd Avenue West in Ballard, WA, then an independent city. (See Polk's Seattle Directory Company's Seattle City Directory, 1895, p. 720.) This mill was operated by the Stimson Mill Company until 1912.

Building History

The Stimson Family, led by its patriarch Thomas Douglas Stimson (1827-1898), began building its lumber fortune in the State of Michigan during the 1850s, before transferring its operational headquarters to Chicago, IL, and then to Seattle, WA, by 1889.

When the Stimsons relocated their center of business operations to Seattle in 1889, they purchased an existing lumber mill in Ballard, WA, and expanded it.

PCAD id: 23987

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Company History

Stimson Mill Company, Lumber and Shingle Mill, Ballard, WA demolished

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