Some Sumner residents suing city to prevent demolition of historic Ryan House

Some Sumner residents hope the city will find a way to preserve the structure, but the city says the time has come to let the house go.

SUMNER, Wash. — Nick Biermann didn’t grow up in Sumner but knows plenty of stories about the Ryan House, which still stands at the corner of Main Street and Sumner Avenue after more than 100 years.

“Many people talk about how they spent time as a child at the library, and the floors would creak, and the librarian would shush them, and tell stories about what it was like being there after school,” he said.

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