Everett's oldest running bar
Bars come and go. The Fireplace has stayed lit since 1940 — through booms, busts, and everything Everett has thrown at it. No gimmicks, no rebrand, no craft-cocktail pivot. Just a proper neighborhood dive that knows exactly what it is.
House rules are simple: no politics or religion at the bar, everybody gets a fair pour, and everyone's welcome — and we mean everyone.
Come for a beer. Stay for the next 85 years.
How we got here
Same four walls on Everett Ave — only the name over the door has changed.
The family behind the bar today takes over — and keeps the neon lit.
Live in EverettIt first shows up as the Fireplace Tavern in the 1948 city directory — and the name's been over the door ever since.
1948 Polk directoryCliff & Esther Morrow run the place through the war years.
Polk directoryCity directories put a tavern on this corner — Brown's — back in the mid-1930s.
Polk directoryThe building's older still — the exact year's lost to the records.
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