Lake Quinault Casino And Lodge Cabins

Lake Quinault Lodge is one such place - a grand and rustic lodge built in 1926 that welcomes guests with warmth, hospitality, and a sincere feeling of home-away-from-home comfort. Built in 1926, the Lake Quinault Lodge is one of five main lodges that accommodate overnight guests to Olympic National Park. Crescent Lake Lodge, Log Cabin Resort and Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort are on the park's north side, and Kalaloch Lodge directly overlooks the Pacific coast. Lake Quinault Lodge is located in Quinault. Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 91 guestrooms. Cable programming and VCRs are provided for your entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Bathrooms with shower/tub combinations are provided. About Lake Quinault Lodge Surrounded by the singular beauty of the Olympic National Forest, Lake Quinault Lodge is a rustic, resort hotel built-in 1926 in the grand tradition. You can rest easy in the lodge and enjoy nature at your leisure, or go hiking, biking, boating, fishing, whatever you desire.

Lake Quinault Lodge is one such place - a grand and rustic lodge built in 1926 that welcomes guests with warmth, hospitality, and a sincere feeling of home-away-from-home comfort.

Location	South Shore Rd., Lake Quinault, Washington
Coordinates	47°28′1″N123°50′50″W / 47.46694°N 123.84722°WCoordinates: 47°28′1″N123°50′50″W / 47.46694°N 123.84722°W
Area	3.1 acres (1.3 ha)
Built	1926
Architect	Reamer, Robert Chambers
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Rustic
NRHP reference No.	98000846^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 09, 1998

The Lake Quinault Lodge is a historic hotel on the southeast shore of Lake Quinault in the Olympic National Forest in Washington, USA. The hotel was built in 1926 and designed by Robert Reamer, a Seattle architect, in a rustic style reminiscent of Reamer's work at the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park. It is a notable example of a rustic wilderness lodging, suited to its woodland environment on the southern side of the Olympic Mountains.

Design and construction[edit]

The original hotel burned in 1924

The two-story wood frame structure replaced a previous building on the site that was built by Jack Ewell for the Olson family in 1903. The Olsons sold their interest in the first hotel to the Seaman family in 1921. On August 24, 1924, the original hotel burned.^[2]

Its replacement was funded by lumberman Ralph Emerson of Hoquiam, who bought out the Seamans. The first stage was a plain 1-1/2 story structure which still stands as the annex, restored in 2007. It became so popular that expansion was needed, and a new, more elaborate lodge was planned.^[2]

Robert Reamer was associated with the contractor, the Metropolitan Building Company, and the company's construction superintendent was Roy Garrison, who had previously worked with Reamer. Reamer had recently completed work on the Hotel Emerson in Hoquiam, and had extensive experience in the design of hotels in natural settings. Work started on June 9, 1926, and was complete fifty-three days later, on August 18, 1926.^[3]^[4]

Emerson sold the lodge in 1939. Poker vic. It closed during World War II. After the war it was operated by the Walker family. In 1988, the hotel was purchased by the Aramark corporation.^[5]

Description[edit]

The Lake Quinault Lodge is an informal retreat, similar in nature to the Rosemary Inn and Singer's Tavern (also known as the Lake Crescent Lodge). The roughly V-shaped main lodge is centered on a lobby at the angle of the V, with a masonry fireplace as its focus, overlooking the lake. Dormers and a cupola in the steep roof emphasize the central wing. The hotel is a 2-1/2 story wood-frame structure clad in cedar shingles. The extremities of the wings project over sloping ground, creating a three-story facade at the ends. The walls of the upper floor project slightly outward from the ground floor, and are capped with a steeply-sloping roof housing an attic floor. Large expanses of windows face in either direction from the lobby. Two smaller 1-1/2 story wings extend from the reception side, framing the entrance court, with an entry porch at the end of one wing. The interior features expanses of smooth, finished timbers supporting the upper floor, which is itself finished timber. The chimney is decorated with a totem pole-shaped rain gauge that measures rainfall in feet.^[3]

The Lake Quinault Lodge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 9, 1998.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a^b'National Register Information System'. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a^bBarnes, Christine (2008). Great Lodges of the National Parks, Volume Two. Graphic Arts Books. p. 83. ISBN978-0-88240-737-1.
^ ^a^bRooney, J.R. (May 29, 1998). 'National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Lake Quinault Lodge'(PDF). National Park Service.
^Barnes, pp. 84-85
^Barnes, p. 90

External links[edit]

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Last weekend was my parents 40th anniversary, so Kelly, Parker and I spent the weekend at their house in Ocean Shores. I realized that I’ve never written about Ocean Shores in this blog, and it was about time I did. I guess we travel there so much, it’s lost some of its initial charm. Ocean Shores is a little less than two hours west of Olympia. To get there, you have to travel through Satsop (where the abandoned nuclear cooling towers are), Montesano (the Grays Harbor County seat), Aberdeen (where the jobs used to be and where Kurt Cobain grew up), and Hoquium (almost as pretty as Shelton!).

“Hey, good lookin’… Come on down to Ocean Shores!”

Ocean Shores once marketed itself as a vacation getaway destination and actually hired Erik Estrada to do infomercials touting its benefits. Yes, this Erik Estrada. While Ocean Shores may be a great place to spend a beautiful Washington Coast Weekend (tourism seems to be thriving quite a bit), it’s pretty much grey, rainy, foggy, windy, and more or less miserable for the other eight months of the year. Fortunately, we have my parents wonderful house to stay in, which always offers us something to do when the weather cooperates. On Sunday the 10th, it was my parents big day, so we headed out to Lake Quinault Lodge to have dinner (and they stayed the night). Apparently, the lodge is a historic destination but I’ll go into that more a few paragraphs from now. The drive north from Ocean Shores took us through Ocean City, Copalis Beach, Roosevelt Beach, Sunset Beach and Moclips (sidenote: one of may favorite jokes…what do you do when you run out of clips? You get Moclips!). Just past Moclips, we took the Moclips Highway – also known as Cook Creek Road – northeast toward Lake Quinault.

The drive itself is pretty stunning, as the road winds through some of the more beautiful parts of the Olympic National Forest. Lots of tall trees framing the two-lane road as it cuts through the rainforest.

Quinault Lake Lodge Resort

The lodge as viewed from the end of the courtyard.

Just south of Neilton, the hig