The Baptist Reverend J. G. Baker held his first services in the parlor of a big white house built by his son-in-law Corwin Shank. The house was on a 40-acre tract of land, and Shank, a Seattle attorney, reserved a log cabin on the grounds as a summer retreat for his own family. The two structures shared a well, a three-hole outhouse, a barn, pig pen, chicken house, and rabbitry. Later Baker erected a church a few hundred feet north of the log cabin, facing 100th Ave. The building was Bellevue’s second house of worship, and it functioned as a church from 1905 to 1960. It is now a teen center across from the Downtown Park.

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