The year was 1952 and my father had graduated with his doctorate in law from the University of Washington. They had bought a lot in the Enatai neigborhood of Bellevue Washington, across the lake from Seattle and Mercer Island. You know where Mercer Island is, it has the high school that Ann Dunham went to, the mother of Barak Obama. Barak's grandfather had a furniture store in Seattle. Also in Seattle was where Frederick Trump of Bavarja came to live, the grandfather of Donald J. Trump. Yes, we were just across the water from them.
Here is my father reading a Better Homes and Gardens, planning the next project I'm guessing.
Oh, and that's my mother with the shovel.
Here is our lot being cleared before the home above was built. West is on the right side of the picture and further down the street is Enatai Elementary School.
Here is the flooring in place before the walls went up.
Looking down from the back of the lot.
Before the interior walls are up.
The home in the far right in the picture is still there. The home on the other side of it out of view is on the market for $4,600,000
Heck, I sold this home with the improvements we had made over the years for $1,620,000 just last year as an estate sale.
The following year after it was built and we had moved in. I'm on my dad's lap here. Later my parents had two more kids.
What the home looks like now.
https://www.redfin.com/WA/Bellevue/10431-SE-23rd-St-98004/home/510774
Here is my father reading a Better Homes and Gardens, planning the next project I'm guessing.
Oh, and that's my mother with the shovel.
Here is our lot being cleared before the home above was built. West is on the right side of the picture and further down the street is Enatai Elementary School.
Here is the flooring in place before the walls went up.
Looking down from the back of the lot.
Before the interior walls are up.
The home in the far right in the picture is still there. The home on the other side of it out of view is on the market for $4,600,000
Heck, I sold this home with the improvements we had made over the years for $1,620,000 just last year as an estate sale.
The following year after it was built and we had moved in. I'm on my dad's lap here. Later my parents had two more kids.
What the home looks like now.
https://www.redfin.com/WA/Bellevue/10431-SE-23rd-St-98004/home/510774
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