111 haunted destinations cataloged across Washington, spanning 35 counties. The collection features haunted hotel, museum, and haunted dining — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Port Townsend, WA
Contractor George Starrett built the mansion in 1889 as a wedding gift for his wife, Ann. The 11-bedroom Queen Anne / Stick Victorian features a 70-foot free-hung spiral staircase rising to a dome painted with frescoes. After operating as a B&B inn for years, the property sold in November 2025 to private owners Christian and Cima Andrews.
Port Townsend, WA
The Rothschild House was built in 1868 by Bavarian-immigrant merchant David Charles Henry Rothschild, with carpentry by Horace Tucker. It is among Port Townsend's oldest surviving residences and one of the best-preserved Greek Revival houses on the West Coast. The Jefferson County Historical Society manages it as a historic house museum; it was listed on the National Register in 1970.
Port Townsend, WA
The James and Hastings Building was built in 1889 at the northeast corner of Water and Tyler Streets by Francis W. James and Lucinda Hastings. The four-story brick-and-stone commercial block is a contributing property to the Port Townsend Historic District and today houses retail tenants including Wynwoods Gallery and Bead Studio.
Port Townsend, WA
The hotel occupies the second and third floors of the 1889 N.D. Hill Building at 635 Water Street. Long operated as The Waterstreet Hotel, it has been rebranded as The Monarch Hotel under new ownership that has renovated rooms while keeping the building's historic Victorian character.
Port Townsend, WA
The Mount Baker Block was built in 1890 by Charles Eisenbeis Sr., a German emigrant baker who became Port Townsend's first mayor and one of its most powerful merchants. It is one of several Eisenbeis-commissioned buildings constructed during the 1889 boom; today it houses commercial offices and studios.
Seattle, WA
The Arctic Building was designed by A. Warren Gould for the Arctic Club, a social organization of Klondike Gold Rush veterans, and opened in 1917. Recognizable for its 27 terra cotta walrus-head sculptures and polychrome facade, it was the first downtown Seattle building to use exterior color in terra cotta. The building was restored as the Arctic Club Hotel in 2008.
Spokane, WA
Built 1914 and opened February 22, 1915 as the Clemmer Theatre, this 800-seat venue was designed by Seattle architect Edwin W. Houghton in a restrained Neo-Classical style. Operated under names Audian (1930), State (1932), Met (1988), and Bing Crosby Theater (2006); listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Spokane, WA
Built in 1898 by architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter for Coeur d'Alene mining magnate Amasa B. Campbell, the Tudor Revival mansion in Spokane's Browne's Addition served as the family home of Campbell, his wife Grace, and their only daughter Helen until 1924. Helen donated the house to the Eastern Washington State Historical Society after Grace's death. Today it operates as a house museum within the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture complex.
Spokane, WA
Spokane's first dedicated library building, designed by architects Herman Preusse and Julius Zittel; cornerstone placed September 1904 and the building opened in 1905. Construction cost $100,000, with $85,000 from Andrew Carnegie's library philanthropy. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982; renovated in the 1990s for Integrus Architecture's primary office.
Spokane, WA
Founded in 1888 as Greenwood Cemetery, the 85-acre burial ground is Spokane's oldest active public cemetery and contains the graves of many early Spokane pioneers across three terraced levels. The Elks staircase (60 steps, popularly called '1,000 Steps') was built in the 1890s when the Elks Lodge purchased a section for member burials. A Great Northern Railroad tunnel ran beneath the cemetery from 1910 to circa 1970.
Spokane, WA
Designed by Kirtland Cutter and built for $2 million in 1914 by restaurateur Louis M. Davenport, the Davenport opened September 1, 1914 with then-cutting-edge amenities including air conditioning, a central vacuum system, and a pipe organ. After a 1985 closure and 17 years of decay, it was bought in 2002 and reopened the same year following a $38 million restoration.
Spokane, WA
Minnehaha Park in Spokane's northeast side was developed on land purchased by the city between 1909 and 1913 for $30,000. Before becoming a park, the 39-acre site served as a mineral spring spa developed by Spokane lawyer Edgar J. Webster in the late 1890s, and briefly as an outdoor film studio between 1918 and 1924.
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Built in 1898 for Spokane pioneer James Monaghan, an Irish immigrant who made fortunes in freight, real estate, railroads, and mining. Monaghan died in the home in 1916. The mansion was sold to Gonzaga University in 1942 and has housed the Music Department since.
Spokane, WA
Built in 1899 by Judge John W. Binkley as a three-story red-brick single-room-occupancy hotel; named after his Little Spokane River country estate. Operated as SRO, apartment building, brothel, and Expo '74 youth hostel; abandoned circa 1974-2005. Restored and reopened January 2005 as a 36-room boutique hotel.
Spokane, WA
The 1890 brick warehouse was originally operated as a liquor warehouse, then as a grocery/mail-order warehouse. A documented historic tunnel connects the basement to the Davenport Hotel one block east. The building now houses Spokane's Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant location.
Spokane, WA
Designed by Kirtland Cutter for Irish-born copper-mining magnate Patrick 'Patsy' Clark, the 12,000-square-foot mansion was completed in 1898 in Spokane's Browne's Addition. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as 'Clark Mansion' in 1975. After eras as a residence, restaurant, and event venue, it was rescued from deterioration in 2002 by a law firm.
Spokane, WA
Begun March 1890 and completed October 1891 for the Spokane Falls Review newspaper. Designed by Alabama-born architect Chauncey B. Seaton in Romanesque-eclectic style with red pressed brick, Montana granite, and a 146-foot candle-snuffer tower. W.H. Cowles acquired the paper in 1893; the Cowles family has continuously published The Spokesman-Review from the building since.
Spokane, WA
Designed by 29-year-old Willis A. Ritchie following an 1893 design competition; constructed 1894-95 by contractor David B. Fotheringham. Built in French Renaissance Châteauesque style, the building has been compared to the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau. Opened November 20, 1895; added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Spokane, WA
The Spokane Club was founded in 1890 as the city's first formal social organization. The current 1910 Georgian Revival clubhouse was designed by Kirtland Cutter following fire damage to the club's previous building. The building is a contributing structure to Spokane's Riverside Avenue Historic District.
Spokane, WA
Designed by Spokane architects Cutter & Malmgren and built in 1916, the Central Steam Heat Plant supplied steam heat to 300+ downtown buildings until 1986. The structure is 140 feet long and 83 feet wide with 225-foot twin smokestacks built of 166,770 bricks each. Acquired by Washington Water Power in 1920; renovated 1996-99 to mixed-use commercial/restaurant.
Spokane, WA
The Fox opened September 3, 1931 as an Art Deco movie palace designed by Robert C. Reamer. After decline and threatened demolition, a $31 million restoration completed in 2007 returned it to use as the Spokane Symphony's home; it was renamed for railroad pioneer Martin Woldson after a major gift from his daughter Myrtle Woldson.
Spokane, WA
Architect Kirtland Cutter designed the Tudor Revival Glover Mansion in 1888 for James N. Glover, the developer credited as the founder of Spokane. The house survived the 1889 fire, later served as a church, and is now an events venue; it joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Spokane, WA
The Peyton Building was built in 1898 on the site of the Great Eastern Building, which burned on January 23-24, 1898. Seven people died in the fire. Colonel Isaac N. Peyton bought the charred remains and commissioned the architectural firm Cutter & Malmgren to build a new commercial block using the surviving walls. The Peyton Annex was added in 1908. Both are listed on the National and Spokane historic registers and remain in commercial use downtown.
Seattle, WA
On June 6, 1889, a glue pot fire in a cabinet shop on Madison Street ignited a blaze that burned 25 square blocks of Seattle's wooden downtown to the ground. Rather than rebuild at grade, city engineers regraded the streets one to two stories higher, leaving the original ground-floor storefronts and sidewalks buried. Bill Speidel, a Seattle Times columnist, began leading the first unofficial tours in 1964 after a reader inquiry; the organized tour operation launched in 1965 and has run continuously ever since.
Seattle, WA
Comet Lodge Cemetery sits on land used by the Duwamish as a burial site long before Euro-American settlement. The first documented Euro-American burial — pioneer Samuel Maple — took place in 1880, and the cemetery formally took the 'Comet Lodge' name in 1895 when Comet Lodge No. 139 of the IOOF (Odd Fellows) acquired it. About 500 burials are recorded between 1880 and 1936. In November 1987 Seattle bulldozed grave markers to trench a sewer line, leaving burials in place beneath later housing and a dog park.
Seattle, WA
Ghost Alley Espresso was opened around 2014 by Mercedes Carrabba in a 147-square-foot space in Pike Place Market's Post Alley, near the Market Theater Gum Wall. The space previously functioned as a service room for a public restroom attendant. The shop doubles as a headquarters for Market Ghost Tours.
Seattle, WA
On June 17, 1926, the body of 22-year-old Sylvia Gaines was found on the shore of Green Lake in Seattle. Her father, Robert Gaines, was convicted of her murder and executed on August 31, 1928, at the Washington State Penitentiary. The trial revealed that Gaines had killed his daughter in a jealous rage when she attempted to leave his home and end an incestuous relationship. The point of land where her body was discovered is still called Gaines Point.
Seattle, WA
Built in 1926 as the Claremont Hotel, Hotel Ändra occupies the corner of 4th Avenue and Virginia Street in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. During Prohibition, the hotel attracted both society clientele and the criminal element — bootleggers and rum-runners made it a regular stop. The hotel briefly served as a Women's Army Corps transfer station during World War II before transitioning to boutique hotel use. It was rebranded as Hotel Ändra in 2004, adopting a Scandinavian aesthetic.
Seattle, WA
The Hotel Sorrento opened May 30, 1909, designed by Seattle architect Harlan Thomas for clothing retailer Samuel Rosenberg in the Italian Renaissance style. Built to coincide with the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, the 150-room hotel sits on Seattle's First Hill and is the city's oldest hotel still serving its original purpose.
Seattle, WA
The Butterworth Building at 1921 First Avenue (with Post Alley access at 1916) was completed October 1, 1903 by Edgar Ray Butterworth as Seattle's first purpose-built funeral home. Designed by architect John Graham, Sr., it included the first elevator on the U.S. West Coast, used to transport bodies. Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub has operated in the lower level since 1983.
Seattle, WA
Lake View Cemetery was founded in 1872 as the Seattle Masonic Cemetery — the city's primary burying ground after the 1860 closure of Seattle's first downtown cemetery. The 40-acre, privately operated, nonprofit cemetery on Capitol Hill contains approximately 40,000 graves, including those of the Denny party, Doc Maynard, Henry Yesler, Princess Angeline, and Bruce and Brandon Lee.
Seattle, WA
The Mayflower Park Hotel was built in 1927 as the Bergonian, named by owner Stephen Berg after his favorite newspaper, The Oregonian. The 240-room hotel was purchased in 1973 by Marie and Birney Dempcy following a period of disrepair and renamed the Mayflower Park; it is the oldest continuously operating hotel in downtown Seattle.
Seattle, WA
Merchant's Cafe & Saloon occupies a brick building at 109 Yesler Way in Pioneer Square that opened in 1890, rebuilt after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. The establishment claims status as the city's oldest continuously operating restaurant. Over its history the building has functioned as a saloon, gambling parlor, brothel, and Prohibition-era speakeasy.
Seattle, WA
Built in 1907 by Seattle real-estate developer James A. Moore and designed by E.W. Houghton, the Moore opened on December 28, 1907, with 2,436 seats — the largest theater in the city at the time. It is Seattle's oldest still-operating theater and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Today it is operated as a live-performance venue by the non-profit Seattle Theatre Group.
Seattle, WA
The Neptune opened November 16, 1921 as a 1,000-seat movie palace in Seattle's University District. Designed by Kentucky-born architect Henderson Ryan with a King Neptune nautical motif, it was originally operated by the Puritan Theatre Company. After decades under various operators including Landmark Theatres (1981-2010), Seattle Theatre Group acquired and renovated it in 2011 as a live-performance venue.
Seattle, WA
Pike Place Market opened August 17, 1907 as a direct producer-to-consumer public market created in response to soaring produce prices and middleman price-fixing. Sited on the Elliott Bay bluff overlooking the waterfront, the market complex grew through the 1910s and 1920s under managers Frank Goodwin and his nephew Arthur Goodwin. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 after a citizen-led campaign saved it from urban-renewal demolition.
Seattle, WA
Founded in 1935, Tai Tung is the oldest surviving Chinese restaurant in Seattle's Chinatown-International District. It occupies the ground floor of the Rex Hotel building at 655 South King Street. The Chan family — currently led by Harry Chan — has operated it for multiple generations and preserved the back booth favored by Bruce Lee.
Seattle, WA
Designed by the architectural firm Bebb and Mendel and opened December 8, 1902, University Heights Elementary School was one of the last of Seattle's monumental wood school buildings — a Mission Revival design that taught generations of University District children before closing as a public school in 1989. The building has operated as the University Heights Center, a community nonprofit, since 1990.
Tacoma, WA
Tacoma Elks Lodge #174 commissioned French-trained architect Édouard Frère Champney to design this Beaux-Arts building, which opened February 1916 on Broadway in downtown Tacoma. By the mid-20th century it held the largest Elks membership in the nation; the lodge declined and the building was abandoned before McMenamins purchased it in 2007 and reopened it as a hotel in April 2019.
Tacoma, WA
Tacoma's Old City Hall was constructed in 1893 at a cost of $257,965, designed by architects Edward Hatherton and Colin McIntosh in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The building served as Tacoma's civic center for 64 years until the city government relocated in 1957. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. After sitting largely vacant since 2008, the building is being revitalized by Surge Co. as a coworking space, museum, and mixed-use commercial destination.
Tacoma, WA
The Pantages Theater opened in January 1918 in downtown Tacoma, designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca in Second Renaissance Revival style for theater mogul Alexander Pantages. Built on the site of a department store that had operated since 1889, the theater cost approximately $400,000. Pantages sold it in 1929 following bad publicity from a rape trial; RKO Pictures acquired the theater. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1976.
Tacoma, WA
Point Defiance Park occupies 760 acres at the northern tip of Tacoma's peninsula, with old-growth forest, Puget Sound beaches, and the historic 1914 Pagoda. The Pagoda, originally a streetcar terminus designed in the style of 17th-century Japanese architecture, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Tacoma, WA
Architects Hewitt and Hewitt began the building in 1891 as a Châteauesque luxury hotel for the Northern Pacific Railway, but the Panic of 1893 halted construction. A fire on October 11, 1898 gutted the shell. The Tacoma School District purchased the ruins in 1904, and architect Frederick Heath redesigned the interior; the school opened September 10, 1906.
Tacoma, WA
McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary opened in 1875 as the first federal prison in Washington Territory and operated as the last island-based federal prison in the United States until its closure in 2011. Inmates included Robert 'Birdman of Alcatraz' Stroud (1909–1912, convicted of manslaughter), Alvin 'Creepy' Karpis, and a young Charles Manson. The Washington State History Museum's permanent exhibition 'Unlocking McNeil's Past' is the sole public venue for the prison's documented history.
Tacoma, WA
Engine House No. 9 was built in 1907 to provide fire protection for Tacoma's North End and served for years as battalion headquarters. It was the last Tacoma station to convert from horse-drawn to motorized equipment, in 1919. The station closed in 1965 and was vandalized and damaged by fires before Win Anderson and Bob Lane bought and restored it. Tacoma's first craft brewery opened on site in 1995. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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The building at 610 Pacific Avenue, beside Tacoma's Old City Hall, served as the downtown police station and jail; the two structures were joined by a jail cell. The site is tied in local lore to Jake Bird, who killed Bertha Kludt and her daughter Beverly with an axe in Tacoma in 1947, confessed at the Tacoma City Jail, and was executed in 1949. From 2014 to 2019 the building housed the revived Pacific Brewing & Malting Co. taproom, which has since closed.
Tacoma, WA
The Rust Mansion was built for William Ross Rust, who made his fortune smelting copper in Tacoma, and was known locally as 'The White House of the West.' In 1911, while Rust and his wife were traveling, their son Howard died at the home; the death was officially attributed to natural causes. The mansion is today a wedding and event venue near downtown Tacoma.
Bellingham, WA
The site of the Hotel Leo began as the Byron House Hotel in 1899, founded by Captain Josiah B. Byron. Leopold F. Schmidt — founder of the Olympia Brewing Company — purchased it in 1910 for $100,000, added a 200-room wing in 1913, and died in the hotel on September 24, 1914; the property was renamed the Leopold Hotel in his honor. The current 9-story tower was built in 1929 by H.L. Stevens and Company. The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and reopened as Hotel Leo in November 2019.
Bellingham, WA
The Mount Baker Theatre opened April 29, 1927, designed by architect Robert Reamer in a Moorish-Spanish Revival style for Pacific Northwest Theaters Inc. The 1,517-seat venue cost approximately $300,000 to construct and was equipped with a $20,000 Style 215 Wurlitzer pipe organ. The city of Bellingham now owns it; the nonprofit Mount Baker Theatre organization manages operations.
Bellingham, WA
The Old Town Cafe occupies the ground floor of the 1890 Oakland Block in downtown Bellingham, Washington. The brick and Chuckanut sandstone building was built by Dr. Ambrose Cornwall and named after his California hometown. The current cafe heritage traces to the 1904 Mobile Restaurant, one of Whatcom County's only African-American-owned businesses at the time.
Bellingham, WA
James F. Wardner — a Milwaukee-born silver and lead mining speculator who arrived in Fairhaven in 1889 and quickly turned a substantial profit in real estate — commissioned Spokane architect Kirtland K. Cutter to design this 23-room Queen Anne mansion, completed in 1890. Wardner occupied it for just one year before the 1891 collapse of the Fairhaven real estate boom (caused by the Great Northern Railroad bypassing the town) prompted his departure for South Africa. He never returned.
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Bayview Cemetery was established in 1887 by the former town of Whatcom on ten acres and was renamed from 'Whatcom City Cemetery' to 'Bay View' in 1902. Now operated by the City of Bellingham, it holds many of the region's pioneer families and has grown to several hundred acres.
Bellingham, WA
The Redlight Bar at 1017 N State Street occupies the site of the old Palace Meat Market, where butcher Frederick L. Dames was killed in a shack behind the shop on the night of April 11-12, 1905. The case was never officially solved.
Bellingham, WA
The Mason Block was completed in 1890 in Bellingham's Fairhaven district, a Richardsonian Romanesque commercial building named for Tacoma investor Allen C. Mason. Its top floor housed the all-male Cascade Club, which hosted visitors including Mark Twain and William Howard Taft. It was rehabilitated in the 1970s and is now known as Sycamore Square.
Port Townsend, WA
Alexander's Castle is a brick tower residence on Madrona Hill, the oldest building on Fort Worden. It was built in 1883 by Reverend John B. Alexander, rector of St. Paul Episcopal Church, reportedly for his Scottish bride-to-be. It is now a vacation rental operated by Washington State Parks within Fort Worden Historical State Park.
Port Townsend, WA
The Bishop Block was erected in 1890 by William H. Bishop, a British sailor who jumped ship in 1853 and became a leading Port Townsend builder after retiring there in 1889. The building has housed a cigar store, a tavern, a U.S. Navy WWII rooming house, and since 1980 a hotel.
Port Townsend, WA
Holly Hill House was built in 1872 and purchased in 1884 by Colonel Robert Cosby Hill and his wife Elizabeth. The home remained in the Hill family until 1980 and operated for years as a bed and breakfast; it is now a private residence in the Port Townsend Historic District.
Port Townsend, WA
Charles Eisenbeis, Port Townsend's first mayor and a prominent German-born businessman, built Manresa Castle in 1892 as his family residence. The 30-room, three-story structure was designed in a Prussian-influenced Victorian style to overlook the Puget Sound. Following the Eisenbeis family's tenure, the building served as a Jesuit training college from approximately 1927 to 1968, then was converted into a hotel in 1968 and renamed Manresa Castle.
Port Townsend, WA
Built in 1889 by retired sea captain Henry L. Tibbals during Port Townsend's Victorian boom, the building has served many purposes; it operated 1925-1933 as the 'Palace of Sweets,' a combination hotel and brothel. Today it is a restored boutique hotel inside the Port Townsend Historic District (a National Historic Landmark).
Port Townsend, WA
Point Wilson Light has guarded the entrance to Admiralty Inlet since 1879. David M. Littlefield (1840-1913) served as its first keeper and married Maria C. Hastings (1850-1912), eldest daughter of Port Townsend founder Loren B. Hastings. Their son Loren drowned October 6, 1900 at age 12. The current 1914 tower remains an active Coast Guard aid to navigation.
Coupeville, WA
Admiralty Head Lighthouse was built in 1903 at Fort Casey on Whidbey Island to guide vessels through Admiralty Inlet, a strategic military chokepoint at the mouth of Puget Sound. After only 19 years of active service, the station was deactivated in 1922 when its Fresnel lens was transferred to New Dungeness Lighthouse. Washington State Parks restored the structure and now operates it as a seasonal historic site within Fort Casey State Park.
Coupeville, WA
Sunnyside Cemetery on Whidbey Island, Washington holds the grave of Colonel Isaac Neff Ebey, the first permanent white settler on the island. Ebey was killed and beheaded on August 11, 1857 by a northern raiding party — most often attributed to the Kake Tlingit of southeast Alaska, though the raiders' identity was never definitively confirmed — in retaliation for the U.S. Navy's killing of a chief and roughly 27 tribal members at Port Gamble the prior year. His headless remains were interred in the original Ebey family cemetery; the cemetery later became Sunnyside Cemetery, founded on the family's Donation Land Claim.
Coupeville, WA
Fort Casey is a coastal artillery fortification built beginning in 1897 on the southwest coast of Whidbey Island, Washington. With Forts Worden and Flagler, it formed a 'triangle of fire' guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. The 1903 Admiralty Head Lighthouse stands within the park.
Olympia, WA
Harvard Law graduate Daniel R. Bigelow arrived in Olympia via the Oregon Trail in 1851, claimed 160 acres, and built this Carpenter Gothic house in the summer of 1854 after marrying Ann Elizabeth White. The couple raised eight children here, and Bigelow became a significant figure in early Washington Territory — serving in the territorial legislature and championing women's suffrage and public education. The Bigelow House Preservation Association formed in 1994 and opened it as a museum in 1995; regular public tours began in 2005.
Olympia, WA
Architect Joseph Wohleb designed the Capitol Theater for the Evergreen State Amusement Corporation; it opened October 7, 1924. A fire on April 24, 1937 — caused by spontaneous combustion of a nitrate film reel in the mezzanine janitor's closet — closed the building for four months. The 2001 Nisqually earthquake damaged the ceiling. The Olympia Film Society has operated the theater since 1986.
Olympia, WA
The Spar opened June 28, 1935 as a downtown Olympia eating and recreation parlor serving dockworkers and loggers. It stayed family-owned for about 60 years before McMenamins acquired it in the mid-2000s, closing it briefly to restore the 1935 look.
Yakima, WA
Designed by B. Marcus Priteca and opened April 5, 1920 as the Mercy Theatre — at the time the largest theater in the Pacific Northwest — the Capitol Theatre in Yakima survived a devastating fire on August 11, 1975, was rebuilt with original muralist Anthony Heinsbergen coming out of retirement to restore the ceiling dome, and was rededicated November 4, 1978.
Yakima, WA
Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital opened on June 20, 1950 at 2811 Tieton Drive in Yakima, Washington, founded after Yakima accountant Edwin B. Mueller lost his daughter Carol to polio at the city's then-only hospital. It became Virginia Mason Memorial in 2016 and MultiCare Yakima Memorial in 2023.
Yakima, WA
The Yakima Sportscenter is a longtime downtown Yakima restaurant and bar. Its upper floors historically operated as a hotel and later a brothel during an era when downtown Yakima had a rough reputation. Later owners turned the ground floor into the present family-friendly establishment.
Bremerton, WA
The Bremerton Community Theater was established in 1944 to entertain workers from the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard during World War II. The theater relocated to 599 Lebo Boulevard in 1976, moving to a larger facility to accommodate its growing audience.
Bremerton, WA
USS Turner Joy (DD-951) was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer launched in 1958. She is known primarily for her role in the disputed August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, which provided the political justification for escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam. On September 25, 1965, three sailors were killed when a 5-inch gun shell jammed and detonated during naval gunfire support operations off the coast of Vietnam. The ship was decommissioned in 1982 and moored at Bremerton as a museum ship.
Everett, WA
The Rucker Mansion in Everett, Washington was completed in 1905 by Bethel Rucker as a wedding gift for his bride Ruby Brown, at a reported construction cost of $400,000. The Rucker family helped found Everett through the Everett Land Company. The mansion is a National Historic Landmark and remains a private residence.
Everett, WA
The Historic Everett Theatre opened in 1901 as the Everett Opera House, designed by architect Charles Herbert Bebb for the Everett Theatre Company at a cost of $70,000 with 1,200 seats. A 1923 fire destroyed the interior; the building was rebuilt and reopened as the New Everett Theater in 1924. After a 2000–2004 restoration and a 2014 ownership rescue, the theater operates as a live performance venue.
Ilwaco, WA
Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, completed in 1856 on the north side of the Columbia River bar, is the oldest functioning lighthouse on the United States West Coast. It was built to reduce the appalling shipwreck rate at one of the most dangerous river-to-sea entrances in the world, known to mariners as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
Ilwaco, WA
North Head Lighthouse was constructed in 1898 on Cape Disappointment, the Pacific Coast's most dangerous stretch for approaching vessels — a section called the Graveyard of the Pacific that has claimed hundreds of ships. The lighthouse was built to warn vessels approaching from the north, complementing the existing Cape Disappointment Light to the south. Washington State Parks now manages the property and rents the two original Victorian keepers' residences for overnight stays.
Lakewood, WA
Thornewood Castle is a 1908 English Gothic Tudor estate on American Lake in Lakewood, Washington. Built by Chester Thorne over four years at a cost of approximately one million dollars, the 27,000-square-foot manor was assembled in part from bricks and architectural elements imported from a dismantled 400-year-old Elizabethan house in England.
Lakewood, WA
Western State Hospital began as the Fort Steilacoom Asylum in 1871, established in former U.S. Army buildings in what is now Lakewood, Washington. The original structure was demolished in 1886 and replaced by a larger John G. Proctor-designed building completed in 1887. The hospital was renamed Western State Hospital in 1915 and remains an active 806-bed psychiatric facility today.
Long Beach, WA
The Lighthouse Oceanfront Resort on Washington's Long Beach Peninsula was originally constructed in the 1950s as the Lighthouse Motel. The facility now features 32 oceanfront suites and 9 cottages, including the original 'ridge' cabins, which retain their mid-century character. The resort maintains guest journals in the most reportedly active cabins — units 101 and 105 — where guests have documented their experiences for years.
Long Beach, WA
The Lamplighter Restaurant (also known as Rod's Lamplighter) was a long-running Long Beach Peninsula restaurant in Seaview, Washington. The building's mantle held the ashes of former owner Louis 'Louie' Sloan (1897–1977) and later those of subsequent former owner Lonnie Stanley (owner 1988–1992). The restaurant closed September 30, 2020, amid pandemic-era business losses.
Port Gamble, WA
Port Gamble was settled in 1853 by the Puget Mill Company as a company lumber town on the Kitsap Peninsula, modeled architecturally on East Machias, Maine. It operated continuously for 142 years before the Pope & Talbot mill closed in 1995, leaving behind one of the most intact 19th-century company towns in the American West. The entire town is a National Historic Landmark.
Port Gamble, WA
The Walker-Ames House was built in 1889 for William Walker, master mechanic of the Pope & Talbot Puget Mill Company, at the company's mill town of Port Gamble on the Kitsap Peninsula. Walker's daughter Maude married mill manager Edwin Ames, and the house passed to the Ames family. The mill closed in 1995 after 142 years of operation, and the building has stood empty since.
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Vancouver, WA
Fort Vancouver began in 1824–25 as the Hudson's Bay Company's primary Pacific Northwest trading post under Chief Factor John McLoughlin. The U.S. Army established Vancouver Barracks on adjacent land in 1849, making it the first American military installation in the Pacific Northwest. The barracks served continuously through both World Wars and was not decommissioned until 2011, leaving behind a 175-year military footprint.
Vancouver, WA
The Grant House at 1101 Officers Row in Vancouver, Washington, is the oldest building on Officers Row, built in 1850 as a log structure later covered with plank siding. It served as home and headquarters for the commanding officer of Camp Vancouver (later Columbia Barracks) and was named in honor of Ulysses S. Grant during his 1879 visit.
Woodinville, WA
The Stimson Manor House was built in 1911 by Seattle lumber baron Frederick Stimson and his wife Nellie as a summer home on what became known as Hollywood Farm. The 87-acre estate later passed through the Macbride family, who restored the gardens, and in 1976 became the founding site of Chateau Ste. Michelle.
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Maltby Cemetery, more accurately known as Paradise Lake Cemetery or Paradise Valley Cemetery, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Washington state, built in 1901 just twelve years after Washington achieved statehood. Located in Woodinville in King County, the cemetery sits on a terraced hillside and is privately owned. It serves only family members of those interred there and is not open to the public.
Aberdeen, WA
The Crowther-Wooding Building at 322 E Heron Street in Aberdeen, Washington was constructed in 1904 and has housed the Red Cross Pharmacy, Evans Drugs, and multiple taverns across its first 80 years of operation. The upstairs 'Elenora rooms' operated as a brothel during the mid-20th century. Sonny Bridges purchased the building in 1981 and opened Billy's Bar and Grill as a family restaurant, naming it in reference to Aberdeen's most notorious historical figure, Billy Gohl.
Ashford, WA
Paradise Inn opened on July 1, 1917 at an elevation of 5,400 feet on the south flank of Mount Rainier. Designed by Tacoma architect Frederick Heath in the National Park Service rustic tradition, the cedar-and-stone lodge is a National Historic Landmark and the centerpiece of Mount Rainier National Park's Paradise area.
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Beverly, Washington sits in Grant County along the historic path of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, which crossed Crab Creek near the abandoned town site of Jericho. The region was home to Interior Salish and other Native American cultures before European settlement.
Black Diamond, WA
Black Diamond Cemetery was established in 1884 by the Black Diamond Coal Mining Company as both a company burial ground and community cemetery for miners and their families. Covering 3.5 acres on Cemetery Hill Road, it holds over 1,200 graves of immigrants from Wales, Italy, Australia, Russia, Germany, and dozens of other nations who came to work the coal seams of the Pacific Northwest. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 21, 2000.
Centralia, WA
On November 11, 1919, during the Armistice Day parade in Centralia, a confrontation between American Legionnaires and the local Industrial Workers of the World union hall left four veterans dead and triggered the mob lynching of IWW member and World War I veteran Wesley Everest from a bridge over the Chehalis River. The bronze Sentinel statue, dedicated in 1924 to the four Legion dead, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. A second plaque recognizing the IWW victims was installed in 2024.
Chehalis, WA
The building at 599 NW Front Street was constructed in 1912 as a Northern Pacific Railroad depot serving downtown Chehalis. Train service declined across the mid-twentieth century and the building was repurposed as the home of the Lewis County Historical Museum, which chronicles a county whose original boundaries once extended from the Cowlitz River north to Sitka, Alaska.
Colfax, WA
St. Ignatius Hospital was founded in 1893 by the Sisters of Providence in Colfax, Washington, with the cornerstone laid June 1893 and construction completed by 1894. The Catholic institution operated until 1964, when it closed due to licensing challenges; a new Whitman Community Hospital opened in 1968. The building transitioned to assisted living until approximately 2000, then stood vacant. Paranormal tours began in 2015.
Concrete, WA
The Mt. Baker Hotel in Concrete, Washington was built in 1924 in the small Skagit County town at the edge of the North Cascades. Over its century of operation, the building has served as a rooming house, liquor store, cafe, barber shop, and office building before operating as its current hotel configuration with suite-style accommodations.
Ellensburg, WA
The Liberty Theatre in Ellensburg, Washington opened in 1940, operated by Midstate Amusement Corp. The building was constructed in a blocky Streamline Moderne style that architect commentators have described as resembling the bridge of an ocean liner. The theater went dark in August 2009 when Hallett Theatres sold it to the local Calvary Baptist Church, which converted it to a church facility in 2010.
Granite Falls, WA
Joseph Pearsall discovered mineral deposits in the South Fork Sauk River drainage in the summer of 1889. Within two years, John D. Rockefeller's syndicate (Colby and Hoyt) had acquired a controlling two-thirds interest in the best mining properties, including the Pride and Mystery mines. The town peaked around 1894 with a population over 1,000 but closed by 1907 when deep mining proved uneconomical. The county access road washed out in December 1980 and was never restored.
Index, WA
The Bush House Inn was established in 1898 in Index, Washington, a small mining town on the North Fork of the Skykomish River about an hour northeast of Seattle. The inn served miners working the surrounding silver, gold, and granite operations, and it remains the only hotel in the historic mining village.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA
The Lewis Army Museum is the only certified U.S. Army Museum on the West Coast. The building was constructed in 1918 by the Salvation Army as the Red Shield Inn for soldiers, families, and visitors at Camp Lewis. The Salvation Army sold the inn to the U.S. Army for $1 on July 1, 1921, and it has served as a museum since.
Leavenworth, WA
Leavenworth Cemetery, started around 1892 by the Great Northern Railroad east of Tumwater Canyon, is the oldest burial ground in Leavenworth, Washington. The railroad provided free interment to deceased employees and the city sold the cemetery in 1907. A September 1905 Wenatchee Republic article reported about 75 burials, and by 1999 no intact headstones remained. Community volunteers have cleaned the site twice yearly since 2013.
Medical Lake, WA
Eastern State Hospital was established in 1891 in Medical Lake to ease overcrowding at Western State Hospital in Steilacoom. Its original building was a grand Kirkbride Plan structure of red brick, four stories tall and 400 feet long, described at its completion as one of the finest buildings on the Pacific coast. Two on-grounds cemeteries hold 913 recorded patient burials from 1891 to 1954.
Moclips, WA
The Moclips-by-the-Sea Historical Society opened the Museum of the North Beach in 2003 in a 1940s former store building. It documents the history of the Grays Harbor North Beach, including the Northern Pacific Railway's western terminus at Moclips, logging, shipwrecks, and the Quinault Indian Nation.
Port Angeles, WA
Olympic National Park was established in 1938 and covers nearly one million acres across the Olympic Peninsula in northwestern Washington. The park includes temperate rainforest, alpine ridges, and Pacific coastline, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Lake Crescent, in the park's northern section, is the site of the documented 1937 murder of Hallie Illingworth.
Quinault, WA
Lake Quinault Lodge opened in August 1926 on the south shore of Lake Quinault in the Olympic National Forest, Washington. The Cape Cod-style timber lodge was built in a single summer to replace an earlier hotel destroyed by fire, and has operated continuously since. Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 lunch in the dining room contributed to the political momentum behind the creation of Olympic National Park in 1938.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPRitzville, WA
Griffith Pioneer Cemetery sits about 8.5 miles north of Ritzville on Marcellus Road in Adams County, Washington. William C. Griffith gave two acres for the community cemetery in 1890; the Griffith family had come from Canada to homestead and farm nearby in the late 19th century. The cemetery's records include many early settler burials and several children, reflecting the high infant mortality of frontier life.
Roche Harbor, WA
Roche Harbor began as a Hudson's Bay Company outpost and became the largest lime-producing operation west of the Mississippi under industrialist John S. McMillin. Hotel de Haro opened in 1886 atop an earlier bunkhouse and is the oldest operating hotel in Washington state. McMillin commissioned the Afterglow Vista mausoleum, completed in 1936, as a Masonic-symbolic family tomb.
Roslyn, WA
The Brick Saloon, established in 1889, is Washington's oldest continuously operating bar. Built by John Buffo and Peter Giovanni, it was rebuilt in 1898 using 45,000 bricks after a destructive fire. The building retains its original character and historic back bar imported from England.
Sedro-Woolley, WA
Northern State Hospital opened in 1912 near Sedro-Woolley, Washington, designed by Seattle architects Saunders and Lawton in the Spanish Colonial Revival style with grounds by the Olmsted Brothers. It grew to house more than 2,100 patients at its peak in the 1950s and closed in 1973. Over 1,400 patients who died at the facility are buried in a 1.5-acre cemetery on the grounds.
Skykomish, WA
The Skykomish Hotel is a four-story frame hotel built in 1904 in the Cascade Mountain railroad town of Skykomish, Washington, after a fire destroyed much of the town. Built at a cost of about $10,000, it featured chandeliers, a fireplace, a restaurant, and a gambling room and bar. After decades of decline it was reclaimed by the Town of Skykomish, listed as 'Saved' by the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation in 2010, and remains a preserved but vacant landmark.
Snohomish, WA
The Oxford Saloon was built in 1900 at 913 First Street in Snohomish, Washington. For a decade it operated as Blackman's Dry Goods store before being converted to a saloon in 1910. The building also housed a pool room during Prohibition, served as a speakeasy, and had a brothel operating on its second floor. The venue has documented ten killings over its history.
Spokane Valley, WA
Mirabeau Park Hotel at 1100 N Sullivan Road in Spokane Valley is the Spokane Valley area's only full-service hotel, combining a convention center, restaurant, and guest rooms. The hotel is known locally both for its event capacity and for a persistent paranormal reputation that has attracted investigation teams. West Sound Paranormal conducted a formal investigation and recorded an EVP on the third-floor landing.
Tokeland, WA
The Tokeland Hotel was built in 1885 by William and Lizzie Kindred as a private home and expanded into a hotel by 1899 to serve travelers crossing Willapa Bay. It is the oldest operating hotel in Washington State and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Walla Walla, WA
William and Isabella Kirkman built this brick Italianate home in Walla Walla in 1880. The Kirkmans raised their family there, and the house passed through two more generations before becoming a museum operated by the Kirkman House Museum board.