WYTYCHAK ELDER LAW NEWS

Spring has Sprung! 

Mark your Calendars:

• Wytychak Elder Law, PLLC will be closed on Monday, May 28, 2012 for the Memorial Day holiday.
• On Thursday, May 31, 2012 the Alzheimer’s Association will put on “Caring for Early Stage Dementia” a seminar by Troy Rohn, Ph.D. and Alzheimer’s researcher at Boise State University at Garden Plaza of Post Falls. The Program is free and open to the public, with a complementary lunch provided by Garden Plaza. Advance registration required! Call (208) 666-2996 to RSVP.

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When new clients and business colleagues come into our office, often they remark about how different our office space is from other attorney’s offices.  They sometimes have questions about our original wood floors, intricate plaster ceilings, and original moldings and windows.  At Wytychak Elder Law, we take pride in our comfortable, homey, unintimidating office space.  Mike and Sheryl purchased the beautiful Victorian home at314 E. Garden Avenuein downtown Coeur d’ Alene in 1993 with their friends who own ROW adventures.   Since that time, we have been able to piece together some of the history of our building through the help of clients and other people who have just stopped by to share their memories of this house. Below is a (very incomplete) re-creation of what we know of the history of the building.  If you have anything to add, please let us know! 

• Approximately 1895- Residence at 314 E. Garden built in downtown Coeur d’ Alene.
• 1920s- All we know about the home at this time is that whoever lived here read newspapers.  During the 2009 renovation of the building, we pulled out all of the kitchen cabinets, and behind them we found newspapers from the 20s that had fallen behind the cabinets.  Interesting reading! 
• 1940s- A client informed us that when she was a young girl in the 1940s, she often played with the little girl whose family lived in the home.  Apparently the family who resided in the home at the time owned a service station next door to the home on the corner of Garden and 4^th street where the Masonic Lodge now sits. 
• 1960s- Another client told us that in the 1960s, he was, as a young teenager, friends with a boy whose family owned the home and used it as a single family residence.  He remembers sliding down the staircase banister and hitting the door a few times. 
• 1970s- The Sisters of Mary Mother of the Church, a sect of Catholic nuns, lived in the upstairs quarters and operated a bookstore downstairs where Shelly’s desk now sits.  In January of 2012, Shelly and Kate got to meet some of the nuns who came in and wanted to have a look at their former home.  They told us that in the 1970s the house was painted bright blue!  The nuns also owned 317 Wallace, which is now the Greenbriar Inn (which was also painted blue!), as well as another home onGarden Avenue.  The nuns now operate out of Spokane. 
• 1993- Mike and Sheryl relocated the law practice from Mike’sSherman Avenueoffice to the downstairs of 314 E. Garden.  ROW Adventures occupied the upstairs floor.  The building was remodeled for office use and the grounds landscaped. 
• August 2008- ROW Adventures moved out of our building into their new location in the Sherman Mall.  Mike and Sheryl moved their office spaces upstairs, and we developed our conference room space from the room where Mike’s old office was.
• February 2009 – We began renovations to make Wytychak Elder Law handicap accessible.
• February 2010 to present - Wytychak Elder Law received the certificate of occupany in February 2010 for the renoveations that upgraded our accessibility her at the office. We can now offer handicapped parking space, a wheelchair ramp, widened doorways and restroom facilities.

 “The fair maid who, the first of May
Goes to the fields at break of day
And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree
Will ever after handsome be.”

-  Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme

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