Council Asked for Sewers

“Valhalla” was partially unveiled for the Bothell Town Council last Monday night by Seattle Engineer Ruskin Fisher.

Fisher was seeking Council commitment of sewer service from the Town of Bothell for the proposed subdivision development of 200 acres above the Wayne Golf Course and to the west of Bothell-Kirkland Way.

The Town Council was told by Jim Malcolm, engineer that sewer service to the area was feasible and the body was unanimous in stating that the service hookup could be made providing the developers bore the cost of hookup to the present service under the prescribed methods set up by the Council.

Fisher, representing the firm of Parker & Sanwick Investments, Inc., stated that the immediate development of 103 lots was contemplated and eventual plans called for approximately 400 homes in “Valhalla.”  The minimum size lot in the 200-acre tract would be 9,600 sq. ft.  Average size would be 12,000 sq ft.

The tract is a view tract that overlooks the Wayne Golf Course and the Sammamish River.  Plans call for the erection of homes in the $25,000 to $40,000 class.

Included in the landscape design of the area is a dredged marina opening onto the Sammamish River, a community clubhouse and a swimming pool.

The proposal for sewer hook-up to the Bothell system was made first to the Bothell Planning Commission and officially to the Town Council for the first time last Monday evening.

VALHALLA

The above sketch shows the entrance to Valhalla, projected residential development for 420 new Bothell homes. Grandopening will be Sunday, Sept. 20.

Valhalla homesites, the 126-acre hillside overlooking the present Wayne Golf Course and the Sammamish River, will officially hold its grand opening this weekend according to K. A. Sanwick, president of Valhalla, Inc.

Sanwick said a preview opening for 400 invited guests will be held Saturday and the grand opening for the public will be next Sunday.

Work of clearing the roads, constructing an entry and actual home construction has already started in the development, which eventually will involve 420 exclusive homes in the upper cost bracket.

Large view lots will be featured in the homesite development. They will be sold at a starting figure of $7,500.

Among the many features planned for the development are a private club, Odin’s Hall, constructed for the exclusive use of residents of the development.

The present Wayne Golf Course will be renamed Valhalla Golf Club.

Year round swimming will be provided by a gas heated swimming pool.

A yacht basin designed to berth 70 craft will be constructed on the Sammamish River.

Tennis courts will be provided in the recreational campus and water skiing ramps will be available on the River and opening into Lake Washington.

Developers have already made application to the town of Bothell for the area to be served by the Bothell sewer system and plans call for all utilities to be constructed underground.

HUGE ENTRY

Crews push construction of the huge entryway to Valhalla in hopes of having it completed for grand opening ceremonies that will take place this weekend. The exclusive residential area will be open to the public Sunday, Sept. 20.

TRANSFORMATION PROMISED

This beautiful hillside overlooking Wayne Golf Course was selected by the developers of Valhalla as the site for one of the most outstanding residential areas planned in many years.

Valhalla

Valhalla is sloped to all of nature’s splendor, and covered with stately cedars, firs and colorful deciduous trees.

Great care has been taken to preserve the native trees and shrubs.In this lush and restful setting, your home can be designed to accent the beauty all about you.

Gates of Valhalla, designed by J. David Jensen & Associates, architects, provide an exquisite entry to the land that is reserved for your gracious living.

A luxurious playground at your doorstep

For the exclusive enjoyment of Valhalla residents and their friends, a campus of recreational facilities will be constructed on the green-carpeted banks of the Sammamish River.

Privileges will include membership in the Valhalla Golf Club. There will be moorage for approximately 5 boats at the outset. Later, when the U. S. Army Engineers deepen the Sammamish River, a project which has been scheduled, a snug yacht basin will be built for Valhalla residence. Swimming will be enjoyed year around in a heated, Olympic-size pool that will be covered in winter by a huge air house. Four tournament tennis courts will be constructed.Water skiers may start their dash to Lake Washington from Valhalla, and in the fall, fishermen may pursue Steelhead in the Sammamish. Equestrians will discover new trails to explore in the wooded hills around Valhalla.

A private club, Odin’s Hall, will be established on the recreational campus. Mythical Valhalla was a place where the wounds of daily strife were healed. Such a place is this Valhalla.

Hillside Community

Streets of Valhalla will lend elegance to the naturally favored setting… all will be landscaped, some divided by planters. All paving and curbing will be completed prior to construction ofyour home. Electric and telephone lines will be installed underground, and natural gas, water and sewer facilities will be in place.

Valhalla probably is Greater Seattle’s finest area for quality home construction. It is closed-in, but isolated, far from the city’s bustle, yet less than 30 minutes from downtown Seattle. It is also near to highly regarded elementary and high schools, and to churches, shopping areas, and the commercial district in sprightly Bothell.

Home sites will vary in size from 9,600 to 20,000 square feet, and will average 12,000 square feet. Each will be posted for price, from $7,500 upward. All plans and designs must be approved by the Valhalla Corporation and its consulting architects.

Quality home-sites for the able and imaginative

If you are an imaginative person, and you are planning to build a home that will express your sensitivity for graceful living, you must see Valhalla, a wonderland of architectural possibilities.

Valhalla is a new restricted area of quality home sites located on the northeast tip of Lake Washington, adjacent to the Valhalla golf course.

From any of the sites on the terraced streets of Valhalla, you look upon a splendorous panorama that is both majestic and pastoral… and surely as wonderful as Norse heroes visualized. Spectacular sunsets over the Olympic mountains, softly rolling patterns of foliage, and a winding river on the floor of Valhalla’s Valley present inspiring scenes.

Your creative architect will have unusual opportunity to use scenery and unique terrain in the design of your home.

When you build in Valhalla, you’ll live among congenial neighbors. And Valhalla is well buffered against encroachment because it is virtually surrounded by lush forest, and fronted by the golf course and waterway. Values are certain to increase… as will your enjoyment of living.

Valhalla offers a virtually unlimited choice of unique home sites. Each lot has been imaginatively engineered to capture view and to vary terrain.

Valhalla is easy to locate… just a little way west of Bothell on the wooded hill overlooking the golf course.

This is Valhalla, 126-acre residential development planned one mile west of Bothell overlooking the Wayne Golf Course. The 420 homesites are on a hillside, above a country club campus and a yacht basin with moorage facilities which will be developed on the Sammamish River, the developer, Valhalla, Inc., announced. The tract will be open to visitors today, K. A. Sanwick, president of Valhalla, said. The development firm is associated with Howard A. Parker’s Picture Floor Plans, real-estate firm. Plans for the new community are by the architectural firm of Harmon, Pray & Detrich. The North Coast Construction Co. is the contractor. Street and lot planning are by J. David Jensen & Associates.

 Valhalla

…has the perfect setting for your distinctive new home.  Sloped to all of nature’s grandeur . . . water, sky and spectacular sunsets, spreading lawns and snow-capped mountains . . . Valhalla is a wonderland of architectural possibilities.  And it is open for your inspection.

Valhalla’s terraced streets and building sites have been imaginatively engineered to capture view, vary terrain, and preserve native trees.

See Valhalla today . . . Just west of
Bothell on the old Kirkland road.

We wish to extend our thanks and appreciation to the hollowing firms who have helped make VALHALLA REALITY, NOT A MYTH …

• underground power – Fischbach and Moore

• utilities – Botting Plumbing and Heating Co.

• streets – Lake City Gravel and Material Co.

• engineering – Horton Dennis and Assoc.

• Home by Contemporary Builders, Inc.

• Entry built by Lloyd E. Beck, Masonry Contractors

The Legend of Valhalla

In the pre-Christian mythology of tribes that inhabited northern Europe, particularly the Scandivavian countries, Valhalla was a paradise populated by gods and heroes.  The Norse were a fierce people by necessity and evidently enjoyed combat and feasting, much as their descendants enjoy sports [the civilized remnant of enjoyable battle] and celebrations.  Conceptions of Valhalla vary somewhat in the literature of various nationalities, but Odin is usually considered the highest god of the mythological system.  According to the myth, the gods and heroes marched out each day through 540 doors of Valhalla, 500 men abreast, to engage in physical combat.  They returned each night and all their wounds were healed.  They then feasted in Odin’s Hall, as the god Odin’s honored guests.  The symbol used here and at the entry to Valhalla is a replica of Odin’s War Helmet.

Lots from $6,000 . . . Homes from $32,500
A restricted Residential Community
Valhalla is open Sundays and Weekdays
Charles Skripsey and other sales representatives will be your hosts.

Valhalla 

…with families on the way up, who want “elbow room”, Valhalla has the perfect setting for your distinctive new home.  Sloped to all of nature’s grandeur… water, sky and spectacular sunsets, spreading lawns and snow-capped mountains… Valhalla is a wonderland of architectural possibilities.

Individuality, a cherished American ideal, is the basic concept in Valhalla.  Terraced strees and 100’ x 120’ (12,000 S. Ft.) building sites have been imaginatively engineered to capture view, vary the terrain and preserve native trees.

No Future Assessments
Underground Power – Paved Streets – Curbs and Sidewalks – Storm and Sanitary Sewers
… in and paid for!

Lots from $6,000 Homes from $32,500.00

Open Sundays
and Weekends

Charles Skripsey and other Picture Floor Plans
Representative will be your hosts

Master plan for Valhalla extends in three directions from the 25-acre portion which has been developed.

Valhalla, a 160-acre residential development south of Bothell which opened with a whoop in 1959 and closed with a whisper in 1964, is back on the market again – on a trial basis.

The opening was one of the flashiest in the local history of subdivision promotion, climaxing in a $30,000 party for 400 guests on the site with Miss Sweden and Miss Norway flown in for the occasion and barbecued beef, pork, chicken and salmon served.

A SCALE-MODEL Scandinavian castle was barged around Lake Washington en route to being installed in a children’s playground.

With frontage on the Sammamish River and adjacent to the Wayne Golf Course, the subdivision was promoted as a planned recreation community.

The subdivision ran into the slackening economy and only 65 of the upper-price-bracket lots on 25 acres were sold between 1960 and 1964 when sales were quietly discontinued.  A total of 19 homes were built and two more are under construction now.

For four years, the Viking Investment Co., a subsidiary of the S. S. & M. Co., paid taxes and interest on the $896,000 worth of idle land held in inventory.

Kendall Sandwick, managing trustee of the S. S. & M. Co., president of Viking Investment and a resident of Valhalla, decided to reopen the area to buyers, “to see if the market is ready.”

He signed an exclusive sales agreement with Dan Thompson, president of the Seattle Home Exchange, and put the remaining 50 finished lots on the market.

Restrictive covenants on the original property remain in effect and it will be opened only to single-family residences in the $32,000 to $45,000 range.

If the market is found receptive, the remaining 135 of the original 169 acres will be developed as well as a master planned swimming and tennis club and boat moorage in the community boat-launching area.

ALTHOUGH Valhalla’s working agreement with the Wayne Golf Course across the river has lapsed, the course has been expanded from nine to 18 acres and the river channel improved and rip-rapped to prevent erosion.

Homes are within the Bothell city limits and are served by Bothell city water and sewers.