Affordable, green homes for every community and every country: Sandpoint Real Estate Blog
By Gary Lirette, Business & Investing in the Inland Northwest
One of the great things about Sandpoint is that when hippies started moving here in the 1970s, it became a mecca for forward thinking. Our area, incredibly beautiful and natural, attracted the very highly educated and successful. With 148 square mile Lake Pend Oreille and Schweitzer Mountain Ski Resort, and removed from the heartless barren urban cityscape, Sandpoint was a paradise to those that had protested in Berkeley and LA. While the same types came from Portland and Seattle, a unique relationship formed with hunters and loggers, and the mindset of creating a truly unique home away from it all evolved. Ex-law enforcement and firemen came in droves, along with musicians, artist, and the like. In 1978, Ed Kienholz, one of America's great 20th Century artists made his home on the Hope...
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