Council member proposes an amendment to create a historic residential district.
The ivory-colored house near Sixth Street and Hostmark has bright red and navy trim and carved wooden accents in its gables. Neat beds of wildflowers hug its walls. Poulsbo City Council member Connie Lord thinks it might be historic anyway, along with many of its neighbors. An amendment she has proposed to the city's comprehensive plan would create a historic residential district that could stretch between Highway 305 and Fjord Drive from Iverson Street, Fourth Avenue and Hostmark Street to the south city limits. That area includes the wooden homes with wide porches, paned windows and cedar shake roofs that Poulsbo's first townspeople built.