Nyholm is My Home

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Peter Nyholm ordered it out of a catalogue in 1902. It is still standing — and in 2024 the city bought it for $125.


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Printed to order in Milton, WA. Ships in 7–10 business days.

Size chart & measurements

Measure your chest around the fullest part, keeping the tape level and snug but not tight. Then read across.

Your chest35–37"38–40"41–43"44–46"47–49"50–53"54–57"
SizeSMLXL2XL3XL4XL

T-shirt — Port & Company PC54

5.4 oz. 100% cotton in solid colours; Athletic Heather is 90/10 cotton/poly, Ash is 98/2, other heathers are 50/50. Classic fit.

SMLXL2XL3XL4XL
Chest, laid flat18202224262830
Body length28293031323334
Sleeve, centre back16¾17¾18¾19¾20¾21¾22¾

Hoodie — Port & Company PC78H

7.8 oz, 50/50 cotton/poly fleece. Air jet yarn, two-ply hood.

SMLXL2XL3XL4XL
Chest, laid flat20222426283032
Body length27¼28¼29¼30¼31¼32¼33¼
Sleeve length34¼3535¾36½37¼3838¾

All measurements in inches, taken on the garment laid flat — chest is half the circumference, so double it to compare against your own chest measurement. Body length runs from the high point of the shoulder to the hem at the back. Tee sleeve is measured from the centre back neck, over the shoulder, to the sleeve hem; hoodie sleeve from the centre of the neck down.

Care. Machine wash cold, inside out, with like colours. Non-chlorine bleach only when needed. Tumble dry medium for tees, low for hoodies. Do not iron the print.

Between sizes? These are a classic cut, not slim — most people take their normal size. Size up if you like room, or if you are buying a hoodie to layer.


Nyholm left Denmark in 1888, twenty-seven years old, and was in Tacoma by 1890. He cleared forty acres of what would become Edgewood, and in 1900 he was central to getting the first telephone line run out from Tacoma to serve his neighbours. Two years after that he put up the windmill — four storeys, ordered from a Sears, Roebuck catalogue and built on his own land. A several-hundred-gallon tank on the top floor piped water to the houses around it. The second floor he kept as a workshop, where he did his wood carving.

It pumped water for seventy-eight years. When it finally stopped in 1980 it was facing demolition, so Don Nelson got a crew of volunteers together and moved the whole four-storey thing a short way south down Meridian instead, onto the ground beside the fire department at 2284 Meridian Avenue East. They did it on a Saturday morning, 24 August 1980, and the town came out to watch it go by. It became the first thing Edgewood ever formally treated as a piece of its own history.

There is a coda worth knowing. In May 2024 Nelson’s nonprofit offered to sell the windmill to the City of Edgewood, so that its future would be settled for good. He opened at one dollar. The city talked him up — to $125, so the price would match what Peter Nyholm paid Sears for it in 1902.

So when this shirt says Nyholm is my home, that is what it means. Not a street or a subdivision — a Danish homesteader’s mail-order windmill that a town refused to let go of, twice.

There is a second Nyholm design — a full-colour winter scene of the windmill under snow, printed direct to garment on sand. Edgewood Nyholm Windmill.

One design, t-shirt or hoodie. Pick your style, size and color above.

  • T-shirt — Sand, 5.4 oz cotton — 100% cotton in solid colours, cotton/poly blend in the heathers
  • Hoodie — Sand, heavyweight 50/50 blend, hooded
  • Sizes S through 4XL — every size, every style, always in stock
  • Printed to order at Northwest Custom Apparel in Milton, WA
  • Family owned and operated since 1977

Need shirts for your company, school or team? Call 1-800-851-3671 or email sales@nwcustomapparel.com.