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Parlor in the Manresa Castle

5/28/2014

Here are some inside pictures of the Manresa Castle in Port Townsend Wa.

The parlor
and entry ways
have that very rich,
elegant 1800s look about them.

Makes
you kind of feel
like your Polly Ann
walking in to
her aunts house.
There are a lot of stairways too! we stayed on the 3rd Floor.

I just loved the Victorian Settee.
(Settee is what we could now call a sofa or couch. Settee was a name for an armed and backed set that more than one person could set in.)
Furniture used to be so artistic!

It felt kind of funny to set on with now days us being so used to everything over stuffed with pillows behind our backs. But I am guessing back in the day when ladies were waring hops, bustles & corsets, they would not have been doing much leaning back in their seats. :)

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Manresa Castle

5/23/2014

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A little History About the Manresa Castle

Mr. Charles Eisenbeis was a prominent member of the early Port Townsend business community.

In 1878, when Port Townsend became the first incorporated city in Jefferson County, its citizens elected Eisenbeis as the first mayor.

In keeping with his status in the community, Eisenbeis built what was the largest private residence ever built in Port Townsend at the time, consisting of 30 rooms.

Locals referred to the building as the "Eisenbeis Castle;" its design was reminiscent of some of the castles in Eisenbeis' native Prussia.

The Castle was completed in 1892

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For more History

or info on

The Manresa Castle

check out

there web page at

http://www.manresacastle.com/

I Found the Castle when looking for a place to stay for our anniversary.

I did a search of "most unique places to stay in Washington state"

and from there I found the link below

http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/02/07/guide-to-most-unique-hotels-in-wa/

If you have been to Port Townsend and are saying to yourself I don't remember seeing that? you probably didn't!

The Castle is up out of the main part of town by the hospital. And from the backside it doe not look like much.

I think we were both a little worried as we drove up to it being the back is what you see first from the road. But as soon as you get around to the side and front it looks like the pictures. and it is very pretty inside!

I will post pictures of the inside later.

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Cute little Public Restroom!

5/21/2014

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We were driving around sight seeing on our weekend over in Port Townsend Wa. and ended up finding Fort Flagler State Park at the northern end of Marrowstone Island

And well about the same time we ran into the park I was also really hoping to run into a restroom! So we went in to a little museum place at the park with the idea of finding the restrooms. Richard saw the sign that said bathroom first. but then when I started to go in I was not sure if we were allowed to use it or not? The Door was open and it looked so cute, that I wondered if it was just part of the museum. So I had to ask to be sure it was ok to be used or not. lol :)

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False Bay to American Camp

5/15/2014

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The picture above is of False Bay on San Juan Island. And from the picture you could probably take a guess as why it has it's name. :) But to look at it when the tide is in, you would never think of it being so shallow.

American camp is on the south end of our island. It is were the American Army Camp was during the Great American Pig War in the mid-1800s when Great Britain and the United States settled ownership of the islands through peaceful arbitration. The pig seems to have been the only casualty of war.

This Was the Laundry House for the camp.

The photo below is looking in the window and shows the fire place in the middle of the room.

For more info on the Pig War that happened here on San Juan Island.

Check out ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War )

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Parlor in the Manresa Castle

Manresa Castle

A little History About the Manresa Castle

Cute little Public Restroom!

False Bay to American Camp

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