About the Inn

Gaylord House has a colorful history leading it in to becoming a Bed & Breakfast and our home. We hope you enjoy the stories and history that follows.

The Carpenter Family

The Carpenters are the earliest family who lived here that we know about. Bill Carpenter remembers living here as a boy in the 20’s. He recently spent his wedding night here at Gaylord House Bed & Breakfast. Imagine paying $135.00 to sleep in your boyhood home! That would have bought a lot of groceries 75 years ago.

The Wilson Family

The Jim Wilson’s (of Wilson’s Grocery and Deli on Rucker Avenue) also lived here, perhaps in the 40’s and 50’s.

The Gourlie Family

Gwen and Larry Gourlie lived here in the 50’s and 60’s. When Gwen attended our open house for past owners/residents back in 1998, she brought an article from the Everett Herald dated 1963 in which her cleverness as a do-it-yourself interior designer was the subject of a feature article in the Home section. She had a hat shop and loved to design hats. When Bob and Joyce Covert bought the house in 1970, they found dozens of milliner’s heads in the attic.

The Covert Family

The Coverts lived here in until 1987. Bob was a pharmacist and is still active in the Everett Central Lions club. He added the family room with the lovely beveled glass bay window and brick fireplace. The work was done by Wayne’s Construction. He also added the deck and under it, a garage. He told me the plumbing wasn’t so good back then. Someone could take a shower in the bathroom in the basement or in the bathroom on the second floor, but not at the same time!
The Ramstead Family

Lou and Tanya Ramstead bought the house from Bob Covert. Lou, a popular schoolteacher, was also an artist. He made line drawings of several homes in the area for a calendar used as a fundraiser. Tanya planted the grapevine that now covers the deck railing as well as the raspberries we still harvest every summer.

The Schaudie Family

In 1997 The Schaudies’ bought the house and remodeled it extensively to meet the requirements of a B&B. They restored the fir wood flooring on the main level and took the walls down to lathe and plaster. If only the layers of paint and wallpaper could tell their stories. A new room was added above the family room built by Bob Covert, bringing to four the number of bedrooms on the second floor. Each was fitted with a private bath. On the lower level, the old garage became a guestroom and the old carport in front of it became a two care garage. In 2003 the kitchen was remodeled featuring the travertine slabs Theresa brought back with her from Italy.

The Schaudies ran the B&B for 10 years, selling to us in late 2005. They still live a short distance away and have been invaluable to us for innkeeper experience and wisdom. Gaylord and Shirley Ann Schaudies and daughter Theresa formed a partnership and bought the house for a B&B. Gaylord and Shirley Ann lived in the house during the nine months it was being renovated. Their daughter Theresa was in the Navy on the USS Abraham Lincoln and helped out at the B&B when the ship was in it’s home port here at Naval Station Everett. When she got out of the Navy, she worked at the B&B full time with her parents. She is still the Master Innkeeper who fills in for us when we are gone. The Schaudies are always glad to talk about their experiences as innkeepers at Gaylord House Bed and Breakfast.