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For as long as Steve Christiansen has lived in his house on the north corner of Sixth Avenue South and Fir Street, neighbors and passers-by have shared their appreciation of what he #hasn't# done to it.

It's a 100-year-old, 1,250-square-foot, three-bedroom, one-bath home on a large lot. No wing additions. No remodel. No accessory dwelling units.

George Brackett, who died in 1927, would still recognize it.

So why the neighborly love?

Since 1921, when Sixth Avenue South was a lonely county road, the house has stood defiantly amid a growing cluster of mini- and maxi-mansions in Edmonds, often...