Innis Arden History

Innis Arden was put on the market in October 1940. The Boeing Company bought the land from the Puget Mill Company (Pope and Talbot) after it had been logged. Boeing cleared the land, laid out the streets and then plotted the first addition.
William and Bertha Boeing subdivided the land and named it Innis Arden. They hired Hugh Russell as the sales agent for what was intended to be an expensive and "restricted community" with extraordinary views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains.​

The highest-priced lots in October 1940 were $1,750.00 and some as low as $1,000, according to location. Hugh Russel was the sales agent on the ground. I asked Mr. Russel where they got the name "Innis Arden." He told me that it was named after Mrs. Boeing's girlhood home in Connecticut. The first homes built in Innis Arden were near the entrance at Innis Arden Drive and Richmond Beach Road.
The first two homes were built by a Mr. Allard and the Perrfield Sisters. Allard on the south side of Innis Arden Drive and the Perrfield Sisters were on the north side of Innis Arden Drive. 
*From Shoreline Memories by the Shoreline Historical Society, 1975​

The Richmond Beach baseball team about 1908. * Back row left to right, Red Wilde, Henry Murray, mgr., Walter Taylor. Middle row, George Holloway, John Walloch, Herb Vaight, Charles Taylor. Front row, Bill Taylor, Jack Cusick, Grove Voreis.