1312 East 65th - A personal connection

The little white house at 1310 NE 65th Street, with the former Åkerlund house to the right. Undated image courtesty of King County Department of Assessments

In 1986, a friend and I rented the little white house at 1310 NE 65th Street, next door to the former Åkerlund house. Our landlord was Hugh Sisley. I hesitate to mention that name. I might as well say "Voldemort". But in 1986 the house was still in good shape, and quite charming.

Mrs. Peterman lived in the former Åkerlund house. I don't remember much about her, except that she was nice and that she had a Maine coon cat named Elliot whom we adored. She told us, more than once, that the man who used to own our house kept his yard looking "just like a park". (My guilty conscience might have only imagined the significant glances. We were good tenants, but essentially apartment-dwellers who had no experience with yard work. Fortunately, our other next-door neighbor, Bob, mowed our lawn for us.)

I was sad, but not surprised, to learn that Hugh Sisley had acquired 1312. It's subsequently suffered the degenerative fate of all Hugh houses. I won't be posting a "now" photo of the house. It makes me too angry.