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Photos by R.J. Marx
LEFT: In September 1958 George and Marion Roberts purchased the Butterfield Cottage, located at 21 N. Columbia in Seaside where Marion, a skilled milliner, opened the House of Roberts
custom design millinery and hat shop. RIGHT: Designer Robin Montero, fondly referred to a “Mrs. Butterfield,” for her involvement in the historic Butterfield Cottage.
Museum: Exhibits highlight basketmaker, hat shop and more
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ford recalls Jenny Michel,
a basketmaker who was
known as “The last Clatsop.”
Michel’s 1900 interview with
the Oregon Historical Society
brings memories of Seaside
from the 19th century.
“This is her story,” Wol-
ford said. “And she tells
it. She became quite well
known in this little commu-
nity here as it was growing
up, and very well respected.”
“Lulu’s,” curated by board
member and City Councilor
Tita Montero, pays tribute to
an iconic, giant advertising
image that hung in Harrison’s
Bakery at 608 Broadway for
many years.
Along with new exhibits,
visitors will see familiar gal-
leries featuring the Seaside
Fire Department, the Sea-
side Signal’s original printing
press and a diorama depicting
Seaside as it was in 1899.
Board members anticipate
future exhibits could expand
on coverage of the 1912 Sea-
side fire that destroyed much
of the city, and a look back at
the city’s place in the 1960s
rock ‘n’ roll scene, when the
Pypo Club hosted groups
like The Kingsmen and Paul
Revere and the Raiders.
On Dec. 5, 1984, neigh-
boring Butterfield Cottage,
located at 21 N. Colum-
bia, was given to the Sea-
side Museum and Histori-
cal Society and moved to its
present location at 570 Neca-
nicum Drive. It has been
CLOCKWISE: Mural for the museum’s fundraising drive. Tickets are available for the raffle at $20 each. • The museum’s exhibit recreates early Seaside Signal
printing operation. • Switchboard at the Seaside Hotel. • Seaside Museum board president and City Councilor Steve Wright at the ribbon-cutting.
interpretively restored to be
used as a museum depicting
a beach cottage and room-
ing house in 1912, inspired
by consultants
en’s magazines
The cottage is
hosting annual
and wom-
of the time.
famous for
gingerbread
teas every holiday season for
more than 30 years.
In a new exhibit, designer
Robin Montero lovingly rec-
reates the “House of Rob-
erts,” the custom design milli-
nery and hat shop that opened
in the building in 1958.
“Thank you, Steve, your
board and all of you volun-
teers for your work,” Mayor
Jay Barber said before cut-
ting the ribbon at the cham-
ber event. “You have not
been idle while you’ve been
closed.”
ments to house his own
employees. Those are things
being promised by Khan
and the community should
hold him accountable.
The people who work
here and provide the labor
to keep the businesses in
Seaside and the northern
Oregon Coast open and
serving the tourists whose
dollars make these towns
financially flush every year
deserve to be able to live
here, too, in real housing.
There are a lot of help
wanted signs and a lot of
employers complaining they
can’t find anyone to work
for them.
It is up to the business
owners and the community
leaders to use their collec-
tive economic and politi-
cal power to create a path-
way to having a labor force
that is available and able
to thrive within the com-
munities they work. This
includes affordable housing
and livable wages.
Tourists spent $2.2 bil-
lion on the Oregon coast
in 2018 (that’s $57 million
in taxes paid). If the Ore-
gon coast wants to truly
thrive and be able to meet
the needs of the people who
come here to spend their
money, it needs to invest in
its workforce. The problem
has been ignored for far too
long and it can be ignored
no longer.
Christina Buck
Seaside
THURSDAY, JULY 8
mittee, 6 p.m., 989 Broadway.
Seaside Civic and Convention
Center Commission, 5 p.m.,
415 First Ave.
MONDAY, JULY 12
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Think again before
putting fire station
at Highlands Lane
Regarding all the Gear-
hart City councilors enthu-
siasm for a new fire station
on Highlands Lane, have
you thought through the
traffic and safety aspect?
Currently there is the
Blue Heron, Teal Road,
Surf Pines, The Reserve
at Gearhart and The High-
lands developments, not
to mention the Highlands
Golf Club and the Del Rey
Beach public access. Now
there is the purposed devel-
opment of 30 acres on
Highlands Lane.
If this goes into the Gear-
hart urban growth bound-
ary there is the potential for
another 120 houses (four
per acre). If you conceiv-
ably take away 10 acres for
a fire station and par, that is
still 80 houses with possi-
bly two cars per house that
is an additional 160 vehicles
trying to get out onto High-
way 101. Now you add a
fire station with fire trucks
trying to get out during an
emergency.
Will there be a signal
light at 101 and Highlands
Lane to deal with this? Not
just a signal light that fire
trucks can control. Your cre-
ating a bigger problem for
everyone living off of High-
lands Lane. Have any Gear-
hart City Council members
ever tried getting out onto
101 from Highlands Lane,
especially in the summer.
It is already an unsafe
nightmare. I understand
101 is a state highway but if
Gearhart wants this land to
become part of the Gearhart
urban growth boundary then
Gearhart needs to make sure
it is a safe plan.
Sharon Davis-Robinson
Gearhart
Workforce housing
cannot be ignored
I was happy to read this
in the Seaside Signal:
“Masudur Khan owns
five hotels in Seaside —
and could build more. But
the hotelier is turning his
sights to developing two
apartment complexes with
more than 80 units aimed at
stemming a lack of afford-
able housing.”
Finally someone is tak-
ing some action to do some-
thing. A real solution to the
lack of affordable housing,
unlike the workforce dormi-
tory other business owners
want to put in the currently
not fit for living, asbestos
and mold riddled, Broad-
way Middle School.
It is unlikely that this
will solve the problem, but
it is a start. I would like to
see the housing Khan builds
be truly affordable to those
who work here. I hope that
he does use a significant
percentage of the apart-
PUBLIC MEETINGS
Contact local agencies for latest
meeting information and atten-
dance guidelines.
MONDAY, JUNE 28
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m.,
989 Broadway, cityofseaside.us.
TUESDAY, JULY 6
TUESDAY, JUNE 29
Seaside Community Center
Commission, 10 a.m., 1225
Avenue A.
Gearhart City Council, work
session, 6:30 p.m., cityofgear-
hart.com.
CIRCULATION
MANAGER
Jeremy Feldman
ADVERTISING
SALES MANAGER
Sarah Silver-
Tecza
PUBLISHER
EDITOR
Kari Borgen
R.J. Marx
Seaside Library Board of
PRODUCTION
MANAGER
CONTRIBUTING
WRITERS
John D. Bruijn
Skyler Archibald
Darren Gooch
Joshua Heineman
Rain Jordan
Katherine Lacaze
Esther Moberg
SYSTEMS
MANAGER
Carl Earl
Directors, 4:30 p.m., 1131
Broadway St.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 7
Seaside Improvement Com-
mission, 6 p.m., 989 Broadway.
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m.,
cityofseaside.us.
Seaside Parks Advisory Com-
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