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Seattle, Washington
The Arctic Building, completed in 1917 as a club for gold-rush Alaskans and known for the walrus heads on its facade, is now a hotel. Its…
Cashmere, Washington
Blewett was a mining town of about 300 miners on Peshastin Creek, called Werner in 1893 and renamed for Seattle mine owner Edward Blewett;…
Index, Washington
The Bush House in the mountain town of Index was built in the 1890s as lodging for miners and travelers, closed in 2002 in a state of decay…
Coupeville, Washington
Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve on Whidbey Island preserves one of the oldest farming communities in Washington, and Sunnyside…
Coupeville, Washington
Fort Casey on Whidbey Island's Admiralty Head was built in the 1890s as one of the coast artillery forts guarding Puget Sound and is now a…
Port Townsend, Washington
Fort Worden, a coastal artillery fort at Port Townsend built around 1902, is now a state park, conference center and arts campus with…
Spokane, Washington
The Fox Theater in downtown Spokane, an Art Deco movie palace opened in 1931 and now the home of the Spokane Symphony, is said to be…
Black Diamond, Washington
Franklin was a coal-mining town on the Green River where mines produced about 4.15 million tons of coal and 88 miners died, among them 37…
Vancouver, Washington
The Grant House on Officers Row, built in 1849 as one of the first army buildings in the Northwest, has been an Officers' Club, a library,…
Spokane, Washington
The Davenport Hotel, opened in 1914 by Louis Davenport, is Spokane's grand historic hotel. The hotel's communications director has told…
Seattle, Washington
The Hotel Sorrento on First Hill opened in 1909 and remains one of Seattle's grand old hotels. Its best-known ghost is the author Alice B.…
Seattle, Washington
Kells occupies the former Butterworth and Sons mortuary building in Post Alley beside Pike Place Market. Staff report banging, falling…
Quinault, Washington
Lake Quinault Lodge, a 1926 shingled lodge on the shore of Lake Quinault at the edge of Olympic National Park, is a rustic historic hotel.…
Cle Elum, Washington
Liberty grew after gold was found on Swauk Creek in 1873, with a school, hotel, post office and stores in the 1890s, and it was listed on…
Port Townsend, Washington
Manresa Castle's legends center on two rooms: Room 302, where a priest is said to have hanged himself, and Room 306, where a young woman…
Granite Falls, Washington
Monte Cristo was founded in 1893 after a gold and silver strike in 1889 and served by a railroad built to haul ore to Everett, but…
Seattle, Washington
The Moore Theatre, opened in 1907 in Seattle's Belltown and the city's oldest remaining theater, partly stands on land that was once the…
Bellingham, Washington
The Mount Baker Theatre in downtown Bellingham, opened in 1927, is a Spanish Moorish performing-arts palace with a clock tower. Its…
Concrete, Washington
The Mt. Baker Hotel on Main Street in Concrete is a small historic hotel that offers suites in the middle of the Skagit River town. Guests…
Sedro Woolley, Washington
Visitors and explorers at Northern State Hospital describe shadow figures, footsteps with no source, distant whispers and crying in the old…
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma's Old City Hall, an Italianate building with a clock tower completed in 1893, served as the city's government seat and now holds…
Oroville, Washington
Old Molson was a mining and farming town founded around 1900 near the Canadian border by George Meacham and John W. Molson, and it declined…
Snohomish, Washington
The Oxford Saloon in Snohomish's historic business district has been a bar since the 1890s and is one of the Seattle area's best-known…
Friday Harbor, Washington
Roche Harbor on San Juan Island grew around a lime works, and its Hotel de Haro, built in 1886, is one of the oldest continuously operating…