Tokeland Hotel, hotel in Washington State, USA
The Tokeland Hotel is a historic inn on Washington's coast originally built as a farmhouse in 1899 and expanded to accommodate travelers, featuring dark wood floors and fir ceilings throughout. The property contains nine guest rooms furnished in Victorian style with period beds, claw-foot tubs in shared bathrooms, a dining room, fireplace lounge, and public spaces filled with antique furnishings and decor.
The site began in 1858 as farmland for the Brown family who traded with the local Shoalwater Tribe and worked roughly 1400 acres. Elizabeth Brown's daughter and her husband William Kindred expanded the house in 1899, creating the first hotel version, and the family later developed additional operations including a golf course, dairy farm, and oyster farm on the expanded land.
The hotel takes its name from the nearby town of Tokeland and long served as a gathering place for travelers from across the region. Today the decor with period antiques and historical furnishings reflects the connection to local heritage, particularly through objects connected to the Kindred family and early settlement in the area.
The property is accessible year-round but closes briefly in winter for maintenance and restocking, while guests can borrow bicycles, reserve the wood-fired hot tub with advance notice, gather at the fire pit in evenings, or dine at the on-site Wandering Goose restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nearby activities include crabbing, fishing, bird-watching on the beaches, and whale-watching, with nearby attractions like the Nelson Crab site and Shoalwater Casino just a short distance away.
The hotel was purchased and reopened in 1990 by two Seattle visitors who discovered it during a camping trip after decades of abandonment and decay. The Mother's Day reopening served as both a tribute to original owner Elizabeth Brown and to the female family members of the new proprietors.
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