1926 - Casket Building on the Waterfront
In 1926, William G. Hulbert added a large building for casket production to his mill site, known as the North Coast Casket Company building. In the 1930s, the Collins Casket Company formed, and was located within the North Coast Casket Company building. Over the years, the building became known as the Collins Building.
Over the course of the building’s history, it was the site for many different casket manufacturing companies and the host to many influential figures, who helped position Everett as an industrial and economic leader.
Because of its association with Everett’s early years, the North Coast Casket Company building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. Costs made the building’s renovation impractical, and in 2010, the building was deconstructed.
Salvaged from the structure were 824 pieces of beam and other timbers were that have been used in 15 other historic properties across Washington State. These properties include seven heritage barns and a church. Select artifacts from that building can be seen found in the Port of Everett’s Waterfront Center Lobby.
The Collins Building (formerly the North Coast Casket Company building) circa 1926.
A worker puts the final touches on a casket in the Hulbert building which came to be known as the Collins Building.
The Collins Building in 2009
The Collins Building in 2009
Did you Know?
Manufacturers used some scrap lumber from the waterfront mills to construct this building and the caskets that were manufactured inside.