For sale: $5 million mansion built by Alfy’s pizza dough

The back view of the 10,000-square-foot home at 3727 Shore Ave. in Everett on the market for almost $5 million. The perfect holiday gift for someone who has everything might be the place to put their everythings.

Like this 10,000-square-foot mansion on the waterfront selling for a few pennies under $5 million.

What’s up with that?

The home at 3727 Shore Ave. has five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, two kitchens and Italian marble floors throughout. The estate sits on 1.29 acres with a pool to soak in panoramic views, from Whidbey Island to Mount Baker. The property is near the Mukilteo border in what some call “Everetteo.”

The first phase of the Nantucket-style home was built in 1940 with a Weyerhaeuser lumber connection.

“It is well-built and strong with a lot of character,” said listing broker Rose Garcez of Keller Williams Realty in Everett. “They put their heart into it.”

It’s no cookie-cutter mansion, for sure.

The home’s additions were made with pizza dough. The pool at the 10,000-square-foot home at 3727 Shore Ave. in Everett on the market for almost $5 million. Brian Olson was in third grade in 1968 when he moved into the home with his mom, dad and younger brother.

“Both of the wings were not there,” Olson said. “As years went on we added to the home.”

Additions included more rooms, a covered veranda, pool, garage and marble flooring.

His parents, Bruce and Judy Olson, owned a clothing store at a Lynnwood shopping center when they bought a pizzeria and renamed it Bonnie & Clyde’s.

“My dad wanted to start something brand new,” Olson said. “A new concept, a new direction. He came home one day and said, ‘I don’t know what the name is, but it needs to start with the letter A because we want to be first in the phone book.’ My mom was ironing one day and a song came on, ‘What’s it all about, Alfie?’ That’s how the name began.”

His parents opened the first Alfy’s Pizza on north Broadway in Everett in 1973. The fountain in front of the 10,000-square-foot home at 3727 Shore Ave. on the market for almost $5 million. (Norton Zanini) Shore Avenue is an established street that spans three blocks with two contrasting sides: one with waterfront homes, many gated, and the other side with abodes for those of more modest means. The “haves” and “have-less” live in harmony on the street, a popular walking lane for residents in the Mukilteo Boulevard area. “It was a great place to grow up,” Olson said. “Edgewater Park was the home base. Everybody would come down to the park to play tennis and baseball and basketball. Our parents would have to beg us to come home. We walked up to the store and bought candy and pop, and walked down to the beach. Now my grandkids go to that park.”

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