Old Port Townsend

Old Jefferson Court House 1881
Jefferson County Courthouse
Approved for construction in 1890 by the Jefferson County Commissioners, the Romanesque style courthouse was designed by Seattle architect W. A. Ritchie, and built at an estimated cost of $150,000.00. The Jefferson County Courthouse Clock Tower was installed in November 1892. The original plans called for a tower 140 feet tall, but for some unknown reason the tower measures only 124 feet, 4 inches. The bell rings out every hour of the day.


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Manresa Castle
Maresa Castle
Completed in 1892 as the home of Charles and Kate Eisenbeis. The Eisenbeis built what was the largest, private residence ever built in Port Townsend. Locals referred to the building as the "Eisenbeis Castle;” Charles died in 1902 and Kate remarried a few years later. The Castle was left empty for almost 20 years except for a caretaker.  In l927 the Jesuit priests purchased the building for use as a training college. They named the complex Manresa Hall after the town in Spain where Ignatius Loyola founded the order.  The name Manresa Castle is a combination of the two former names, "Manresa Hall" and "Eisenbeis Castle.

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Galatea Fountain
Galatea Fountain
This fountain is often thought to portray Venus, the Roman goddess of love, or Galatea, a sea nymph from Greek mythology. In 1893 the statue first appeared at the World Colombian Exposition in Chicago's German Pavilion and was shortly sold to J.L. Mott Foundry of New York, a company specializing in plumbing fixtures. The statue that stands today is a bronze casting of a pot metal original donated by Theodore N. Haller and installed by the City of Port Townsend in 1906.

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Running for Port Townsend

Running for Port Townsend
Good breeze, flat water, tricky tides, surrounded by mountains, it’s hard to imagine a better place to sail than Port Townsend Bay.


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