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== History of the Tokeland Hotel == |
== History of the Tokeland Hotel == |
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[[File:Elizabeth Brown Kindred.jpg|left|thumb| |
[[File:Elizabeth Brown Kindred.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px|Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Brown Kindred]] |
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George H. Brown (November 4, 1824 - July 5, 1883), a Philadelphian-born California gold seeker turned Portland butcher, was one of the first to settle on Toke Point when he came with his wife Charlotte Norris (? - June 22, 1891) and her two sons, Albert and Leonidas in 1858. Living peacefully amongst Chief Toke's Shoalwater Bay tribe, the Browns homesteaded 1400 acres of land, kept livestock and raised crops, and traded with the locals. Traveling to [[Bruceport, Washington|Bruceport]] by dugout canoe to be with the midwife, Charlotte gave birth to their oldest daughter, Elizabeth. Lizzie Kindred grew up on Toke Point speaking [[Chinookan languages|Chinook]] and befriending the locals, leaving only intermittently to attend school at the Rose Farm near Bay Center.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=|title=Sou'Wester|url=|journal=Sou'Wester|volume=Summer 1987|pages=29|via=}}</ref> |
George H. Brown (November 4, 1824 - July 5, 1883), a Philadelphian-born California gold seeker turned Portland butcher, was one of the first to settle on Toke Point when he came with his wife Charlotte Norris (? - June 22, 1891) and her two sons, Albert and Leonidas in 1858. Living peacefully amongst Chief Toke's Shoalwater Bay tribe, the Browns homesteaded 1400 acres of land, kept livestock and raised crops, and traded with the locals. Traveling to [[Bruceport, Washington|Bruceport]] by dugout canoe to be with the midwife, Charlotte gave birth to their oldest daughter, Elizabeth. Lizzie Kindred grew up on Toke Point speaking [[Chinookan languages|Chinook]] and befriending the locals, leaving only intermittently to attend school at the Rose Farm near Bay Center.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=|title=Sou'Wester|url=|journal=Sou'Wester|volume=Summer 1987|pages=29|via=}}</ref> |
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[[File:William Stingly Kindred.jpg|left|thumb| |
[[File:William Stingly Kindred.jpg|left|thumb|207x207px|William Stingly Kindred]] |
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In 1878, William Stingly Kindred arrives on the scene. A young Portland carpenter (and rumored relative of the famous Daniel Boone<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=|title=Sou'Wester|url=|journal=Sou'Wester|volume=Summer 1987|pages=29|via=}}</ref>) William made the move to Toke Point to assist in building the new Lifesaving Station. By November 24, 1880, he and Lizzie Brown were married. The newlyweds purchase land from Lizzie's parents and in 1885 complete the two-story wood frame farmhouse, with a gabled roof and brick fireplace built into the north wall, that would be the original structure of the Tokeland Hotel. |
In 1878, William Stingly Kindred arrives on the scene. A young Portland carpenter (and rumored relative of the famous Daniel Boone<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=|title=Sou'Wester|url=|journal=Sou'Wester|volume=Summer 1987|pages=29|via=}}</ref>) William made the move to Toke Point to assist in building the new Lifesaving Station. By November 24, 1880, he and Lizzie Brown were married. The newlyweds purchase land from Lizzie's parents and in 1885 complete the two-story wood frame farmhouse, with a gabled roof and brick fireplace built into the north wall, that would be the original structure of the Tokeland Hotel. |
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=== The Kindred Inn, Post Office & General Store === |
=== The Kindred Inn, Post Office & General Store === |
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In 1891, after the death of Lizzie's mother, the Kindreds inherited the rest of the Brown acreage. Meanwhile, the popularity of Toke Point as a tourist destination and growing businesses in the area necessitated the establishment of the town's first post office. On August 22, 1894 the post office opens with a postmark bearing 'Tokeland', thus officially naming the town at Toke Point<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=|title=Sou'Wester|url=|journal=Sou'Wester|volume=Summer 1987|pages=35|via=}}</ref>. |
In 1891, after the death of Lizzie's mother, the Kindreds inherited the rest of the Brown acreage. Meanwhile, the popularity of Toke Point as a tourist destination and growing businesses in the area necessitated the establishment of the town's first post office. On August 22, 1894 the post office opens with a postmark bearing 'Tokeland', thus officially naming the town at Toke Point<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=|title=Sou'Wester|url=|journal=Sou'Wester|volume=Summer 1987|pages=35|via=}}</ref>. |
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[[File:Tokeland Hotel 1905.png|thumb| |
[[File:Tokeland Hotel 1905.png|thumb|461x461px|1905 view of the Tokeland Hotel from the south. The Kindred farmhouse is the two and half story structure on left. In 1899, the addition to the right was added, creating an "L" shape to the building.]] |
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In 1899, the Kindreds built a two-story addition which gave the structure an 'L' shape and opened to the public as the Kindred Inn. Shortly thereafter the name was changed to Tokeland Hotel, in honor of the Shoalwater Bay Tribe's Chief Toke, for whom Toke Point was also named.<blockquote>From 1899 to 1915, William and Lizzie Kindred operated the general store out of the hotel and on December 9, 1898, William Kindred became the third Tokeland Postmaster. A role in which he served for 17 years until March 5, 1915, though his daughter Lizzie was known as the unofficial postmaster as she more often ran the front of house.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=|title=Sou'Wester|url=http://pacificcohistory.org/SouWester/1998%20Summer.pdf|journal=Sou'Wester|volume=Summer 1998|pages=|via=}}</ref></blockquote> |
In 1899, the Kindreds built a two-story addition which gave the structure an 'L' shape and opened to the public as the Kindred Inn. Shortly thereafter the name was changed to Tokeland Hotel, in honor of the Shoalwater Bay Tribe's Chief Toke, for whom Toke Point was also named.<blockquote>From 1899 to 1915, William and Lizzie Kindred operated the general store out of the hotel and on December 9, 1898, William Kindred became the third Tokeland Postmaster. A role in which he served for 17 years until March 5, 1915, though his daughter Lizzie was known as the unofficial postmaster as she more often ran the front of house.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=|title=Sou'Wester|url=http://pacificcohistory.org/SouWester/1998%20Summer.pdf|journal=Sou'Wester|volume=Summer 1998|pages=|via=}}</ref></blockquote> |
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[[File:Tokeland Hotel .jpg|left|thumb| |
[[File:Tokeland Hotel .jpg|left|thumb|508x508px|Tokeland Hotel circa 1910 with newest wing, giving the building the 'C' shape that it has today<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tokelandhotel.com|title=Tokeland Hotel Website|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>]] |
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=== Early Tourism in Tokeland === |
=== Early Tourism in Tokeland === |
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[[File:Tokeland Reliable and Shamrock Postcard.png|thumb| |
[[File:Tokeland Reliable and Shamrock Postcard.png|thumb|341x341px|Postcard featuring Captain A.W. Reed's steamers ''Reliable'' and ''Shamrock'' ferrying passengers from Raymond to Tokeland - Dated July 4, 1912]] |
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The lumber industry around Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor helped develop Tokeland, which was known all the way to California for its fresh oysters, razor clams, crab and fish.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=|title=Aberdeen World Articles from 1920s-Present|url=|journal=Aberdeen World|volume=|pages=|via=}}</ref> |
The lumber industry around Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor helped develop Tokeland, which was known all the way to California for its fresh oysters, razor clams, crab and fish.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=|title=Aberdeen World Articles from 1920s-Present|url=|journal=Aberdeen World|volume=|pages=|via=}}</ref> |
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By 1907, Tokeland was a well-known sports and recreation destination: |
By 1907, Tokeland was a well-known sports and recreation destination: |
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''"Tokeland is one of the prettiest little summer resorts on the whole Pacific coast. It is not on the ocean proper, being just on the inside, on Willapa harbor, and the bathing can hardly come up with the exhilarating plunge into the ocean surf, yet as a place for a man to take his family, a place who for a man who is somewhat fond of the 'simple life', and who does not care especially for the social exactions that are called for at the more popular vacation resorts, that little strip of shore along Willapa harbor cannot be beaten."'' - Edward Miller Jr. October 18, 1907<ref>{{Cite news|url=|title=Willapa Harbor Pilot|last=Miller|first=Edward|date=October 18, 1907|work=Willapa Harbor Pilot|access-date=}}</ref> |
''"Tokeland is one of the prettiest little summer resorts on the whole Pacific coast. It is not on the ocean proper, being just on the inside, on Willapa harbor, and the bathing can hardly come up with the exhilarating plunge into the ocean surf, yet as a place for a man to take his family, a place who for a man who is somewhat fond of the 'simple life', and who does not care especially for the social exactions that are called for at the more popular vacation resorts, that little strip of shore along Willapa harbor cannot be beaten."'' - Edward Miller Jr. October 18, 1907<ref>{{Cite news|url=|title=Willapa Harbor Pilot|last=Miller|first=Edward|date=October 18, 1907|work=Willapa Harbor Pilot|access-date=}}</ref>[[File:Meeting the steamer Tokeland 1912 Albert Thompson Collection pg 78 - 2.jpg|left|thumb|364x364px|Meeting the steamer, Tokeland 1912]] |
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<br />[[File:Meeting the steamer Tokeland 1912 Albert Thompson Collection pg 78 - 2.jpg|left|thumb|455x455px|Meeting the steamer, Tokeland 1912]] |
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⚫ | Disembarking at the Tokeland dock, a horse drawn bus driven by William Kindred would take visitors the rest of the way to the Tokeland Hotel (''photo left'').<blockquote>''"Tokeland was not merely locally famous. People came from as far away as Boise, southern California, eastern and northern Washington, and Portland as regular guests"''</blockquote> |
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[[File:Washington Captain A.W. Reed's Steamers Reliable and Shamrock.jpg|thumb|450x450px|Back of postcard reads: "Excursion from Raymond, Wash. to Tokeland, Wash. July 4, 1912 Photographed by Arvid Pearson"]] |
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⚫ | Disembarking at the Tokeland dock, a horse drawn bus driven by William Kindred would take visitors the rest of the way to the Tokeland Hotel (''photo |
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=== Mother Nature & The Great Depression === |
=== Mother Nature & The Great Depression === |
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Between ocean storms and tornados that ravaged the peninsula between 1930 and 1934 and the Great Depression, the once bustling Tokeland was never able to recover<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pacificcohistory.org/SouWester/1998%20Summer.pdf|title=Sou'Wester|last=|first=|date=1998|website=Sou'Wester|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>. After Lizzie Kindred's death in 1931, the year following her and William's Golden Anniversary celebration at the hotel, Maude ran the business until 1939 when she died. William Kindred, having no heirs to pass the property to, willed everything to the family's long-time caretaker and friend, Effie Reinkins. When he died in 1943, that marked the end of the Kindred era of the Tokeland Hotel. |
Between ocean storms and tornados that ravaged the peninsula between 1930 and 1934 and the Great Depression, the once bustling Tokeland was never able to recover<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pacificcohistory.org/SouWester/1998%20Summer.pdf|title=Sou'Wester|last=|first=|date=1998|website=Sou'Wester|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>. After Lizzie Kindred's death in 1931, the year following her and William's Golden Anniversary celebration at the hotel, Maude ran the business until 1939 when she died. William Kindred, having no heirs to pass the property to, willed everything to the family's long-time caretaker and friend, Effie Reinkins. When he died in 1943, that marked the end of the Kindred era of the Tokeland Hotel. |
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[[File:Lizzie Kindred's Tokeland Hotel Parlor Room with Native Baskets.png|left|thumb|Lizzie Kindred's Tokeland Hotel Parlor Room with Native Baskets]] |
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=== Food and Lodgings === |
=== Food and Lodgings === |
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[[File:Tokeland Restaurant 2019.png|thumb|250x250px|Tokeland Restaurant 2019]] |
[[File:Tokeland Restaurant 2019.png|thumb|250x250px|Tokeland Restaurant 2019]] |
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The Tokeland Hotel contains thirty rooms, each with one large window. There are eighteen sleeping rooms on the second floor which are open to lodgers. During the Kindred years, Lizzie Kindred kept the parlor of the Tokeland Hotel decorated with a collection of beads and baskets, received as personal gifts over the years by friends and travelers. This collection was later donated to the University of Washington. |
The Tokeland Hotel contains thirty rooms, each with one large window. There are eighteen sleeping rooms on the second floor which are open to lodgers. During the Kindred years, Lizzie Kindred kept the parlor of the Tokeland Hotel decorated with a collection of beads and baskets, received as personal gifts over the years by friends and travelers. This collection was later donated to the University of Washington. |
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[[File:Tokeland Hotel Parlor 2019.png|left|thumb|327.988x327.988px|Tokeland Hotel Parlor 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tokelandhotel.com|title=Tokeland Hotel Website|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>]][[File:Tokeland Hotel Restaurant.png|thumb|251x251px|Tokeland Hotel Restaurant]] |
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[[File:Lizzie Kindred's Tokeland Hotel Parlor Room with Native Baskets.png|left|thumb|331.997x331.997px|Lizzie Kindred's Tokeland Hotel Parlor Room with Native Baskets]] |
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[[File:Tokeland Hotel Restaurant.png|thumb|250.99x250.99px|Tokeland Hotel Restaurant]] |
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<blockquote>''"The food was famous [during the time of the Kindreds]. The Kindred farm raised its own poultry and beef. The Indians kept the hotel supplied with freshly dug razor clams and prime crab. And the family remained in the oyster business even after the native oysters diminished and were replaced in 1899 by Eastern oyster plantings, and in the 1930s by the Japanese strains. Charlotte Brown, Lizzie Kindred, Lucy Carter, Effie Reinkins - housekeepers for half a century, were famous for their cooking."'' <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pacificcohistory.org/SouWester/1998%20Summer.pdf|title=Sou'Wester|last=|first=|date=Summer 1998|website=http://pacificcohistory.org/SouWester/1998%20Summer.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref></blockquote>In 1910, the Tokeland Hotel was famous for its cuisine of superb seafood and fresh produce from the Kindreds' backyard<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=|title=Sou'Wester|url=|journal=Sou'Wester|volume=Summer 1987|pages=30|via=}}</ref>. |
<blockquote>''"The food was famous [during the time of the Kindreds]. The Kindred farm raised its own poultry and beef. The Indians kept the hotel supplied with freshly dug razor clams and prime crab. And the family remained in the oyster business even after the native oysters diminished and were replaced in 1899 by Eastern oyster plantings, and in the 1930s by the Japanese strains. Charlotte Brown, Lizzie Kindred, Lucy Carter, Effie Reinkins - housekeepers for half a century, were famous for their cooking."'' <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pacificcohistory.org/SouWester/1998%20Summer.pdf|title=Sou'Wester|last=|first=|date=Summer 1998|website=http://pacificcohistory.org/SouWester/1998%20Summer.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref></blockquote>In 1910, the Tokeland Hotel was famous for its cuisine of superb seafood and fresh produce from the Kindreds' backyard<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=|title=Sou'Wester|url=|journal=Sou'Wester|volume=Summer 1987|pages=30|via=}}</ref>. |
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===== 1950 - 1971 I Hawthornesand & Tesorieres ===== |
===== 1950 - 1971 I Hawthornesand & Tesorieres ===== |
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In the spring of 1950, Dave and Emily Hawthorne along with Emily’s parents Captain Renny Tesoriere and his wife Emily purchased the hotel and it reopened in July of that year. |
In the spring of 1950, Dave and Emily Hawthorne along with Emily’s parents Captain Renny Tesoriere and his wife Emily purchased the hotel and it reopened in July of that year. |
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[[File:Tokeland Hotel.jpg|thumb|356x356px|Tokeland Hotel 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=www.instagram.com/tokelandhotel|title=|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>]] |
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<blockquote>''“Captain Renny Tesoriere, born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1888, married his Emily in London June 27, 1915 while a member of the famed Coldstream Guards during World War I. In 1922, they came to the United States where he owned a resort near Detroit and joined the Michigan National Guard unit, which became a part fo the 32nd (Red Arrow) division of the American Army in World War II. In 1950, the Tesorieres came to Tokeland, assisting in the revival of the hotel, in which their Golden Wedding Anniversary was celebrated in 1965, as the Kindred’s had been in 1930. In 1951 the unique institution, the Capt’s Tavern, was founded by the late Mr. Tesoriere in the old Tokeland Club House, moved close by. For twenty years, the Tesorieres with the Hawthorns and thier five children have extended the friendly hospitality begun so long ago by the three-generations of Browns and Kindreds. The hotel is open to the public during the summer months: during the off season bounteous home-cooked meals are served by reservation to groups…”''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=1970|title=Sou'Wester|url=|journal=Sou'Wester|volume=Spring 1970|pages=7-8|via=}}</ref> </blockquote> |
<blockquote>''“Captain Renny Tesoriere, born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1888, married his Emily in London June 27, 1915 while a member of the famed Coldstream Guards during World War I. In 1922, they came to the United States where he owned a resort near Detroit and joined the Michigan National Guard unit, which became a part fo the 32nd (Red Arrow) division of the American Army in World War II. In 1950, the Tesorieres came to Tokeland, assisting in the revival of the hotel, in which their Golden Wedding Anniversary was celebrated in 1965, as the Kindred’s had been in 1930. In 1951 the unique institution, the Capt’s Tavern, was founded by the late Mr. Tesoriere in the old Tokeland Club House, moved close by. For twenty years, the Tesorieres with the Hawthorns and thier five children have extended the friendly hospitality begun so long ago by the three-generations of Browns and Kindreds. The hotel is open to the public during the summer months: during the off season bounteous home-cooked meals are served by reservation to groups…”''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=1970|title=Sou'Wester|url=|journal=Sou'Wester|volume=Spring 1970|pages=7-8|via=}}</ref> </blockquote> |
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===== 2018 - Present I Earnhardt and Young ===== |
===== 2018 - Present I Earnhardt and Young ===== |
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<blockquote>''"In April [2018], [Heather] Earnhardt and her husband, Zac Young, took over [the Tokeland Hotel]...and now reside on the third floor of the hotel. Their new life is ready-made for a kids’ book — complete with three little pet pigs, bunnies, kittens, a white dog named Gus and, supposedly, a ghost or two.On the second floor, the guest rooms flank a long, dim hallway paneled with rough-hewn wood. Each one is all charm, with high-up beadboard ceilings, antique dressers topped with vases of lavender from Willapa Valley Lavender Farm, white matelassé quilts and rag rugs. One has a wall of blossoming branches hand-painted faintly by Seattle artist [http://michaelemillerprojects.com/ Michaele Miller]; our room had broad cream-and-butter-colored stripes above blond wainscoting. It might sound overdone, doily-riddled-bed-and-breakfast-style, but it’s not. Earnhardt’s taste was made for this place, and each room is gracefully outfitted in a way that feels inevitable"''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/the-tokeland-hotel-what-happens-when-an-excellent-seattle-chef-takes-over-washington-states-oldest-lodgings/|title=What Happens When an Excellent Seattle Chef Takes Over Washington State's Oldest Lodgings|last=Clement|first=Bethany Jean|date=December 6, 2018|website=Seattle Times|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref></blockquote> |
<blockquote>''"In April [2018], [Heather] Earnhardt and her husband, Zac Young, took over [the Tokeland Hotel]...and now reside on the third floor of the hotel. Their new life is ready-made for a kids’ book — complete with three little pet pigs, bunnies, kittens, a white dog named Gus and, supposedly, a ghost or two.On the second floor, the guest rooms flank a long, dim hallway paneled with rough-hewn wood. Each one is all charm, with high-up beadboard ceilings, antique dressers topped with vases of lavender from Willapa Valley Lavender Farm, white matelassé quilts and rag rugs. One has a wall of blossoming branches hand-painted faintly by Seattle artist [http://michaelemillerprojects.com/ Michaele Miller]; our room had broad cream-and-butter-colored stripes above blond wainscoting. It might sound overdone, doily-riddled-bed-and-breakfast-style, but it’s not. Earnhardt’s taste was made for this place, and each room is gracefully outfitted in a way that feels inevitable"''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/the-tokeland-hotel-what-happens-when-an-excellent-seattle-chef-takes-over-washington-states-oldest-lodgings/|title=What Happens When an Excellent Seattle Chef Takes Over Washington State's Oldest Lodgings|last=Clement|first=Bethany Jean|date=December 6, 2018|website=Seattle Times|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref></blockquote> |
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File:Sitting Room at the Tokeland Hotel 2019.png|Tokeland Hotel Lounge 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=www.instagram.com/tokelandhotel|title=|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> |
File:Sitting Room at the Tokeland Hotel 2019.png|Tokeland Hotel Lounge 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=www.instagram.com/tokelandhotel|title=|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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File:Tokeland interior 1.png|This antique pipe organ came to the Tokeland Hotel on a covered wagon via the Oregon trail<ref>{{Cite web|url=www.instagram.com/tokelandhotel|title=|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> |
File:Tokeland interior 1.png|This antique pipe organ came to the Tokeland Hotel on a covered wagon via the Oregon trail<ref>{{Cite web|url=www.instagram.com/tokelandhotel|title=|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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Tokeland Hotel | |
Location | Kindred Avenue and Hotel Road, Tokeland, Washington |
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Coordinates | 46°42′30.3″N 123°59′04.6″W / 46.708417°N 123.984611°W |
Built | 1885 |
NRHP reference No. | 78002766 [1] |
Added to NRHP | April 11, 1978 |
The Tokeland Hotel and Restaurant is Washington State’s oldest resort hotel located at 2964 Kindred Ave in Tokeland, Washington[2]. Located on a peninsula with the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Willapa Bay to the south and east, the Tokeland Hotel is surrounded on all sides by the same natural beauty that has been luring tourists to the area since the 1880s. Just shy of its 100th birthday, the Tokeland Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[3]
Here, in this sheltered beach land, where nature still lavishly provides her gifts of mild climate, picturesque scene, restful haven, and good food, we give you - The Tokeland Hotel[4]
History of the Tokeland Hotel
George H. Brown (November 4, 1824 - July 5, 1883), a Philadelphian-born California gold seeker turned Portland butcher, was one of the first to settle on Toke Point when he came with his wife Charlotte Norris (? - June 22, 1891) and her two sons, Albert and Leonidas in 1858. Living peacefully amongst Chief Toke's Shoalwater Bay tribe, the Browns homesteaded 1400 acres of land, kept livestock and raised crops, and traded with the locals. Traveling to Bruceport by dugout canoe to be with the midwife, Charlotte gave birth to their oldest daughter, Elizabeth. Lizzie Kindred grew up on Toke Point speaking Chinook and befriending the locals, leaving only intermittently to attend school at the Rose Farm near Bay Center.[5]
In 1878, William Stingly Kindred arrives on the scene. A young Portland carpenter (and rumored relative of the famous Daniel Boone[6]) William made the move to Toke Point to assist in building the new Lifesaving Station. By November 24, 1880, he and Lizzie Brown were married. The newlyweds purchase land from Lizzie's parents and in 1885 complete the two-story wood frame farmhouse, with a gabled roof and brick fireplace built into the north wall, that would be the original structure of the Tokeland Hotel.
The Kindred Inn, Post Office & General Store
In 1891, after the death of Lizzie's mother, the Kindreds inherited the rest of the Brown acreage. Meanwhile, the popularity of Toke Point as a tourist destination and growing businesses in the area necessitated the establishment of the town's first post office. On August 22, 1894 the post office opens with a postmark bearing 'Tokeland', thus officially naming the town at Toke Point[7].
In 1899, the Kindreds built a two-story addition which gave the structure an 'L' shape and opened to the public as the Kindred Inn. Shortly thereafter the name was changed to Tokeland Hotel, in honor of the Shoalwater Bay Tribe's Chief Toke, for whom Toke Point was also named.
From 1899 to 1915, William and Lizzie Kindred operated the general store out of the hotel and on December 9, 1898, William Kindred became the third Tokeland Postmaster. A role in which he served for 17 years until March 5, 1915, though his daughter Lizzie was known as the unofficial postmaster as she more often ran the front of house.[8]
In 1910, an additional wing was built effectively giving the building the 'C' shape that it has today. According to the National Register for Historic Places, around this time the Tokeland Hotel also received gas lighting and a second fireplace.[10]
More renovations were completed between 1920 and 1930, including new interiors and plumbing. The Kindreds also replaced gas with electricity and extended the central dining area on the east side of the building[11].
The hotel's facilities were grown over the years to include a club house (Capt's Tavern), a gun club and a nine-hole golf course as well.
The Tokeland Hotel 'Links' Golf Course & Capt's Tavern
"Golf was a natural development for Tokeland. Not only were the grounds ideal for links-style golf, but a ready-made clientele of merchants, bankers, lumber barons and professional people who had the leisure time to play formed the basis of a regular summer colony" - Victory "Chub" Vaughn[12]
The mid-1890s Northwest coast had an active golf scene. Even before Tokeland Hotel's golf course was up and running, visitors were bringing their own clubs and balls as early as 1910. By 1920, Maude Kindred and Ralph Harrington had put in a formal nine-hole golf course just north of the hotel with tees, greens and hazards[13] perhaps with the help of nationally known golfer and golf architect Walter Fovargue, who lived near the Tokeland Hotel and actively played there between 1918 and 1930. While the Tokeland Hotel served as the golf club house for some time, in 1929 a boarded up pool hall located one mile east of the hotel near the old dock, was rolled on planks pulled by two teams of horses to the Tokeland Hotel property and became the clubhouse for the new golf course[14].
On April 9, 1933, after additions were made, Maude Kindred opened the space as Capt's Tavern. It has been rumored that, due to the remote location and proximity to Canada it was easier for Prohibition to go somewhat ignored at Capt's.
In 1950, after the property had passed from the Kindreds to the Hawthornes, the clubhouse was remodeled with a pool table and until 1970, The Tokeland Hotel and Capt's Tavern were popular recreation centers in Tokeland.[15]
Since the Hawthorne years of ownership, Capt's Tavern passed hands several times until 1984 when Carol Quint purchased and remodeled it to become the Tokeland Studio Outpost, a combination art studio and restaurant. Most recently in 2019, the new owners of the Tokeland Hotel have purchased back the property to reunite the two venues and restore Capt's Tavern to its former glory.
Early Tourism in Tokeland
The lumber industry around Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor helped develop Tokeland, which was known all the way to California for its fresh oysters, razor clams, crab and fish.[16]
By 1907, Tokeland was a well-known sports and recreation destination:
"Tokeland is one of the prettiest little summer resorts on the whole Pacific coast. It is not on the ocean proper, being just on the inside, on Willapa harbor, and the bathing can hardly come up with the exhilarating plunge into the ocean surf, yet as a place for a man to take his family, a place who for a man who is somewhat fond of the 'simple life', and who does not care especially for the social exactions that are called for at the more popular vacation resorts, that little strip of shore along Willapa harbor cannot be beaten." - Edward Miller Jr. October 18, 1907[17]
Vacationers from Seattle or Portland would travel by train to South Bend and then catch a ride on Captain A.W. Reed's steamers Reliable (launched in 1902) and Shamrock (added to Reed's fleet in 1906).
Disembarking at the Tokeland dock, a horse drawn bus driven by William Kindred would take visitors the rest of the way to the Tokeland Hotel (photo left).
"Tokeland was not merely locally famous. People came from as far away as Boise, southern California, eastern and northern Washington, and Portland as regular guests"
Mother Nature & The Great Depression
Between ocean storms and tornados that ravaged the peninsula between 1930 and 1934 and the Great Depression, the once bustling Tokeland was never able to recover[18]. After Lizzie Kindred's death in 1931, the year following her and William's Golden Anniversary celebration at the hotel, Maude ran the business until 1939 when she died. William Kindred, having no heirs to pass the property to, willed everything to the family's long-time caretaker and friend, Effie Reinkins. When he died in 1943, that marked the end of the Kindred era of the Tokeland Hotel.
Food and Lodgings
The Tokeland Hotel contains thirty rooms, each with one large window. There are eighteen sleeping rooms on the second floor which are open to lodgers. During the Kindred years, Lizzie Kindred kept the parlor of the Tokeland Hotel decorated with a collection of beads and baskets, received as personal gifts over the years by friends and travelers. This collection was later donated to the University of Washington.
"The food was famous [during the time of the Kindreds]. The Kindred farm raised its own poultry and beef. The Indians kept the hotel supplied with freshly dug razor clams and prime crab. And the family remained in the oyster business even after the native oysters diminished and were replaced in 1899 by Eastern oyster plantings, and in the 1930s by the Japanese strains. Charlotte Brown, Lizzie Kindred, Lucy Carter, Effie Reinkins - housekeepers for half a century, were famous for their cooking." [20]
In 1910, the Tokeland Hotel was famous for its cuisine of superb seafood and fresh produce from the Kindreds' backyard[21].
The three decades that Katherine and Scott White ran the hotel (1989-2018), the Tokeland Hotel featured homemade blueberry pancakes and cranberry pot roast in the evening as well as an assortment of specialty pies[22].
The current owners, Seattle restauranteurs Heather Earnhardt and Zac Young, have put a Southern comfort spin on the Tokeland Hotel classics and offer a rotating breakfast, lunch and dinner menu continuing to feature Tokeland's fresh seafood and the hotel's signature Cranberry Pot Roast. The pastry case at the Tokeland Hotel is also a revolving selection of the handmade cakes and pies that Heather is famous for[23]
"It’s “Big Food Big Love,” as the title of [Heather Earnhardt's] 2016 cookbook puts it — including her famous fried chicken at breakfast, lunch and dinner. As befits historical Pacific Northwest coastal lodging — and as Earnhardt and Young befriend local, independent sources — there are oysters, Dungeness crab and more, fresh from right around the bay."[24]
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Sweet potato bundt cake with a Steen's cane syrup glaze[25]
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Blistered shishito peppers with Comeback sauce[26]
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Chicken noodle soup with matzah balls[27]
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Maple cheesecake with brown sugar apples and maple syrup[28]
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Eggs Benedict with fresh crab[29]
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Super Bowl Gumbo - house made andouille sausage, shrimp & okra served over rice[30]
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Local Takara oysters from Willapa Bay[31]
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Locally caught salmon carbonara[32]
Ghost Stories and Local Lore
The Tokeland Hotel lists on its website Rooms 4 and 7 as 'Haunted Rooms'[33] Enthusiasts have regularly visited the Tokeland Hotel to test for paranormal activity.[34] Known as "Charley", the Tokeland Hotel ghost of an illegal immigrant from China being smuggled into the US to work on the railroads in the early 1900s . Being pursued by the smugglers, the Kindreds were said to have attempted to hide Charley in the small space behind the Tokeland Hotel fireplace[35]. Charley died of suffocation while hiding from his captors and now is said to have been seen in the hallways or causing dinner plates at the restaurant to spin around[36].
"I'm leaving with a sense that there are a lot of secrets hidden in the walls. I do feel like something's happened here" - Teresa Carol, clairvoyant[37]
On the grounds of the Tokeland Hotel the headstones of Lizzie Kindred's half brothers can be found, brought over from the Cedar River cemetery as it was being washed away. One belongs to Albert Brown (April 1, 1856 - May 1, 1866) who, stuck in the mud in Teal Duck Slough, drowned as the tide came in when Lizzie Kindred was only three. The other belongs to Leonidus Norris (April 18, 1849 - April 8, 1873) who died in a shooting accident at 24.[38]
10-year old Albert is rumored to roam the halls of the hotel. Guests have also reported feeling a ghost cat pad across their bed.
Timeline of Ownership
1885 - 1942 I The Kindreds
The hotel is built by William and Lizzie Kindred in 1885. Several property developments including a 13 acre 'links style' golf course, Capt's Tavern, a gun club and riding club were added to the Tokeland Hotel during the Kindreds' nearly six decade ownership. After the deaths of his wife and two daughters, Maude and Bess, William Kindred left the property to their long-term caretaker Effie Rankin when he passed away 1943.[39]
1943 - 1950 I The Nelsons
In 1943, Effie Rankin sells the property to the Nelson Crab and Oyster Company, owned by Herbert and Ina Nelson who passed the property on to their children Ray and Virginia Nelson.
The Nelsons hired the Walker family as caretakers and gardeners and hired Vern and Beulah Storey to operate the Tokeland Hotel[40]. The hotel was used for a time as a boarding house for cannery employees as well by by 1949 was closed to the public.[41]
1950 - 1971 I Hawthornesand & Tesorieres
In the spring of 1950, Dave and Emily Hawthorne along with Emily’s parents Captain Renny Tesoriere and his wife Emily purchased the hotel and it reopened in July of that year.
“Captain Renny Tesoriere, born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1888, married his Emily in London June 27, 1915 while a member of the famed Coldstream Guards during World War I. In 1922, they came to the United States where he owned a resort near Detroit and joined the Michigan National Guard unit, which became a part fo the 32nd (Red Arrow) division of the American Army in World War II. In 1950, the Tesorieres came to Tokeland, assisting in the revival of the hotel, in which their Golden Wedding Anniversary was celebrated in 1965, as the Kindred’s had been in 1930. In 1951 the unique institution, the Capt’s Tavern, was founded by the late Mr. Tesoriere in the old Tokeland Club House, moved close by. For twenty years, the Tesorieres with the Hawthorns and thier five children have extended the friendly hospitality begun so long ago by the three-generations of Browns and Kindreds. The hotel is open to the public during the summer months: during the off season bounteous home-cooked meals are served by reservation to groups…”[43]
1971 - 1985 I The Deterings
Conrad and Roslyn Detering, who moved from Chelan, reopened the hotel in March 1985 for only one year before closing again to visitors in 1986[44].
1989 - 2018 I The Whites
"Seattleites Katherine and Scott White, on a vacation in the area, fell in love with the derelict building the first time they saw it. In 1989, the Whites bought the property and invested in the hotel’s restoration. In honor of all of the mothers in their lives, and as a nod to Elizabeth Brown, they re-opened The Tokeland Hotel on Mother’s Day in 1990. The couple saved the original dark-wood, fir-planked floors, walls and ceilings, reserving the romantic second floor and its nine rooms for hotel guests...They’re complete with Victorian era furniture like old iron bed frames, with modern day bedding and topped with a pristine quilt just like the old days..."[45]
2018 - Present I Earnhardt and Young
"In April [2018], [Heather] Earnhardt and her husband, Zac Young, took over [the Tokeland Hotel]...and now reside on the third floor of the hotel. Their new life is ready-made for a kids’ book — complete with three little pet pigs, bunnies, kittens, a white dog named Gus and, supposedly, a ghost or two.On the second floor, the guest rooms flank a long, dim hallway paneled with rough-hewn wood. Each one is all charm, with high-up beadboard ceilings, antique dressers topped with vases of lavender from Willapa Valley Lavender Farm, white matelassé quilts and rag rugs. One has a wall of blossoming branches hand-painted faintly by Seattle artist Michaele Miller; our room had broad cream-and-butter-colored stripes above blond wainscoting. It might sound overdone, doily-riddled-bed-and-breakfast-style, but it’s not. Earnhardt’s taste was made for this place, and each room is gracefully outfitted in a way that feels inevitable"[46]
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Tokeland Hotel Lounge 2019[47]
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This antique pipe organ came to the Tokeland Hotel on a covered wagon via the Oregon trail[48]
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Sunset at Tokeland Beach[49]
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Tokeland Hotel pastry case 2019[50]
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Tokeland Hotel Bedroom Painted by Michaele Miller[51]
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Lounge at the Tokeland Hotel 2019[52]
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Room key holder and brass ship candle lights[53]
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Chesterfield sofas in the Tokeland Hotel lounge 2019[54]
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- Buildings and structures in Pacific County, Washington
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