The building once located at 50 Spring Street was known historically by various names over its 142 years: the Bay View Hotel, The Douglas Hotel, and the San Juan Inn. While ground has yet to be broken on the new King Family Investments building-currently referred to as the Windermere building-when built it will have a more modern look while still addressing the Friday Harbor Historical Review Board’s recommendations.
When complete the building will once again house Crystal Seas Kayaking, San Juan Excursions, San Juan Property Management, a t-shirt shop, and include three one-bedroom apartments “designed for flexible uses… seasonal, long term and short term.” The owners state “we will be working more on the design of this feature once their building design is further along so that the design compliments both properties.” The site plan also includes a boardwalk alongside the building shared with the future King Family Investments building, located immediately to the west of 40 Spring Street. The design includes French doors on both the top and lower facade elevations, a combination of lap siding and shingles, a balcony with traditional railing in a simple traditional pattern of thin baluster members and thicker squared wooden posts and railing above the solid sides of the balcony, with black composition/architectural shingles on the roof. The 40 Spring Street design replaces the shingled false facade with a more traditional facade, while still retaining the look and feel of an older building, complete with a balcony, but using modern materials to rebuild it.
Sweeney’s properties were primarily along the waterfront and located at the center of the early developing commerce of the town and newly formed county seat.Īccording to records obtained from the Town of Friday Harbor, “40 Spring Street, and the people, commerce, and important entertainment venues associated with it, played an important role in the development of Friday Harbor and the history of businesses we still enjoy today.”Ī recent Town of Friday Harbor Historical Preservation Review Board staff report states the applicant has demonstrated the intent to replicate the feel of the building as it was prior to the fire. The 40 Spring Street building once housed a warehouse and mercantile, and its prime location is no accident as it was among several buildings owned and operated by Joseph Sweeney, one of the first land speculators in Friday Harbor. The Middleton’s also built and operated the Fribor Theatre in 1915, now the Palace Theatre, but that’s another story. Middleton ran a small store in the building, the early predecessor of today’s King’s Market.
Or catch a silent film or vaudeville act at the Star Theater, the town’s first cinema and vaudeville stage. Islanders could get a shave and a haircut at the barbershop.
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