Demolition of an historic farmhouse located on the Navy’s Outlying Field just south of Coupeville is scheduled to take place Monday.

Laura McDonald, a Coupeville resident and amateur historian, reported the plan Friday morning, saying she just found out about it Thursday night. She immediately started spreading the word, hoping to stop the demolition.

According to McDonald, the white, two-story house visible from Highway 20 dates back to 1915 when it was built by Ralph Kingma and three of his sons, John, Bud and Gerben. The Kingma house was originally located in Clover Valley near Oak Harbor where the family had a chicken farm. The Navy purchased the house and property to build Ault Field in the 1940s. McDonald said the Navy moved the house to the OLF in the 1960s.

“My grandparents moved here in the 1890s and I’ve been researching history the last nine years,” McDonald said, explaining her interest in the issue.

She said she’s been researching the old farmhouse for a couple of years. “This house is perfect, it’s all for profit,” she said of is condition.

A company called Forest City that builds Navy housing contracted with a company called Interwest Construction to demolish the house beginning at 8 a.m. Monday. It will apparently be replaced by a new building.

Tony Popp, community relations director at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, referred calls to Deborah Carr, Forest City site manager at the base.

“Forest City has the lead on this as part of the Public Private Venture partnership,” Popp said in an email, referring to the Kingma house as “Quarters ‘W’ at Outlying Field.

Carr did not immediately return a phone call from the New-Times.

Forest City has built hundreds of new Navy housing units in recent years. According to McDonald, it owns the Kingma house, and she’s not blaming the Navy for its imminent demise.

According to McDonald, one local contractor, Curt Youderian, has offered to move the house across the field so it won’t have to be destroyed, but his offer was refused. The News-Times left a message Friday morning asking for comment from Youderian.

McDonald said she will continue working to save the house, and she’ll be present Monday morning when the demolition crew arrrives. She can be reached at 678-3685.