These wonderful old doors are on the old cannery building in downtown Port Townsend. The building is now used as a private residence or office. The folks that live or work there are not very friendly … I assume that they get tired of folks knocking on the doors wanting to see inside.
Back to the Hastings Building (again). Just a sample of the assorted junk and gunk left after a building stays abandoned. There was one episode of squatters … the scariest of which was when it was discovered they had build a fire on one of the floors… leaving a burn mark. As dry as the interior is, it would not have taken much time to have the whole building engulfed. But there is just a lot of junk and trash. Great for photography, though.
These are a few more of the photos I took from my recent trip to the Hastings Building. (Downtown Port Townsend, currently vacant, built in 1899). The first is looking up in the main hallway and the second is looking down that hallway to one of the rooms facing the main street.
The Hastings Building is sited at the main intersection of Port Townsend, WA. Constructed in 1889 and a Washington State Registered Historic Place, the Hastings Building has retail space in some of the ground floor, but the upper floors are vacant and in need of renovation. It is hoped that the renovation will happen in the near future and will include adding additional 4-star hotel space on the water side (to the right of the image above). If you look at image number 3, the photo #1 was taken on the corner that is in the middle of the photo (on different days). I recently had an opportunity to go upstairs and photograph. Some of those photos will be the next few posts.
The Hastings Building is one of the older buildings in Port Townsend and occupies one of the corners of the main intersection. I walk around a lot downtown … it’s always interesting and there’s no mall anywhere near Port Townsend (for an indoor walking facility).
Unfortunately, the upper floors of the building are in disrepair and vacant. It needs paint and refurbishment. If I only had a couple extra million …
