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Photo provided by the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley The Cline Barn, located at 712 Clark Road, will be part of the Dungeness Historic Homes Tour on Saturday, June 18. The barn, also known as the Bigelow Barn, was built in 1934 as an addition to the Elliot Cline family's dairy farm.
If you have ever wondered about the history of some of Sequim’s old barns or historic homes, you will not want to miss the one-day Dungeness Historic Homes Tour.
The tour, sponsored by the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley, will take place between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday, June 18.
The Dungeness Historic Homes Tour includes guided tours of six historic structures in and around Dungeness, as well as highlighted points of interest.
Featured places include Groveland Cottage, the Cline House and Barn, Eberle Barn and Wheeler-Cays Barn, which has been converted into a home.
Refreshments will be served on the day of the tour at the Dungeness Schoolhouse, which is also a featured tour location.
Tour participants will receive a map when they purchase their tickets that provides driving directions to the featured homes and points of interest included in the tour.
People are responsible for providing their own transportation.
Once at each tour site, participants will be met by museum volunteers who will provide guided tours of the historic homes, barns and other structures.
Tour attendees will have a chance to walk through Groveland Cottage, built in 1886 and moved to its present-day location on Sequim-Dungeness Way by prominent businessman Charles Franklin Seal.
The structure became known as the Seal Mansion and was one of the most elegant homes in Clallam County.
Today, the home has been converted into Groveland Cottage Bed & Breakfast, owned by Simone Nichols.
Nichols purchased the home about 20 years ago and began renovations to return the home to its former glory.
“It was a wreck when I bought it, but I knew it was one of the few historic homes left standing in the area,” she said.
Following six months of major renovations, the bed and breakfast opened with four rooms and a detached cottage for guests.
About nine years after opening, Nichols undertook another major renovation in the home.
“The home’s great room had been used as a little country store since 1950 and I wanted to see it return to its original purpose, a formal dining and gathering room,” she said. So renovations once again started. With an old house you are in a constant state of renovating and updating, but this is a beautiful home and it is located on a wonderful piece of property.”
Other highlights of the tour will include a chance to tour the Wheeler-Cays Barn on Woodcock Road. The barn, built in 1947, has been converted into a home.
Other barns on the tour include the Eberle Barn, built in the 1920s, and Cline Barn, which was added to Elliott Cline’s homestead in 1934.
To find out how to purchase tickets for the event, see the sidebar located below.
For additional information about the Dungeness Historic Homes Tour, phone the museum at 360-683-8110 or visit www.macsequim.org.
WHERE TO BY TOUR TICKETS
Tickets, which are actually keepsake buttons, can be purchased in advance exclusively at the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley’s exhibit center, 175 W. Cedar St.
Cost is $15 for adults and $5 for children ages 12 or younger.
Tickets can also be purchased on tour day at each featured location for $18 for adults and $5 for children.
Cash and checks are the only payment methods accepted at tour locations.
Payment via credit card will only be accepted at the exhibit center, which will also be open on the day of the tour.
Transportation for the tour will not be provided.
A brochure that includes a driving map and location directions will be provided at the time of ticket purchase.
For more information, phone the museum at 360-683-8110 or visit www.macsequim.org.
DUNGENESS HISTORIC HOMES TOUR
A tour of historic homes, barns and points of interest will take place at a variety of locations in the Dungeness Valley between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday, June 18.
Tour participants must provide their own transportation.
For ticket information, see the sidebar on the lower left portion of this page.
Homes included in the tour are:
Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2781 Towne Road, located at the corner of Towne and Anderson roads.
This historical two-story structure operated as a school for more than 60 years, closing in 1955.
Today, it remains a community resource and is operated by the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley.
Refreshments will be served in the schoolhouse.
Groveland Cottage, 4861 Sequim-Dungeness Way.
Prominent area businessman Charles Franklin Seal moved this once-small house from New Dungeness to its present-day location in the early 1900s.
Then known as Seal Mansion, it became the show place of Clallam County for many years.
Eberle Barn, 2488 Towne Road.
Joesph Anton Eberle, who came to the Dungeness Valley in 1915, built this barn in the mid 1920s.
The barn was large enough to house Eberle’s 70 jersey cows and six Belgian horses.
Cline House and Barn, 712 Clark Road.
Constructed in 1892, this house remained in Elliot Cline’s family for several generations.
The barn was added to the family’s dairy farm in 1934.
Henderson House, 4641 Sequim-Dungeness Way.
Built in 1880, this remains one of the few original homes still standing in Dungeness.
Wheeler-Cays Barn, 2192 Woodcock Road.
Once a dairy barn, the Wheeler-Cays Barn has remained in the same family for generations.
It was built in 1947, and in recent years was converted into a home.
Points of interest included in the tour are:
Cline Spit — Now Cline Spit Community Beach County Park, the spit is on land originally owned by its namesake, Elliot Cline.
For many years the spit boasted a wharf, pilings of which remain visible.
Dungeness Dock — Used for 50 years as a commercial port, the dock fell into disrepair in the mid 1940s.
Today, only pilings remain of the mile-long dock.
Dungeness Landing County Park — This 5.6-acre park along outer Dungeness Bay includes a viewing platform from which to observe a panorama that includes the Dungeness Lighthouse, Graveyard Spit and Dungeness Spit.
New Dungeness, Washington Territory Historical Marker — This historical marker, erected in 1965, briefly chronicles the history of New Dungeness and occupies land that was part of the original Elliot Cline land patent.
Dungeness Pioneer Cemetery — Generations of area pioneer families and some of the most prominent citizens of years past are interred here, the only cemetery in Dungeness.
