The Marymere Hotel was the first hotel built on the south shore of Lake Crescent. The Marymere Hotel was built in 1906 on Barnes Point, in the same general vicinity where the later Rosemary Inn was built. Barnes Point is located at the narrowest part of Lake Crescent, at the base of the western shoulder of Mount Storm King. The Paul Barnes family originally started the Marymere Hotel, which was later operated by Rose Saylor Littleton. The 1½-story log and wood frame Marymere Hotel had a large five-sided bay window with a similarly shaped dormer above. The Marymere Hotel was located less than a mile north of Marymere Falls, a 90-foot waterfall on Falls Creek, a tributary to Barnes Creek. Guests to the Marymere Hotel arrived by boat, as the road along the south shore of Lake Crescent did not exist at the time when the hotel was operated. The Marymere Hotel burned down around 1914.

This scene, of the Marymere Hotel, on Lake Crescent, was photographed a few years later than the previous scene of the Marymere Hotel. Note that by the time this scene was photographed, a second doorway had been added and that the shrubbery on the right front side of the building had overgrown some of the windows. This scene was probably photographed not long before the historic hotel burned down around 1914.

This old postcard, from the 1910s, advertises that the Marymere Hotel was the most centrally located resort on Lake Crescent, and that it was within a 20 minute walk from Marymere Falls.

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Andrew Craig Magnuson
Forks, Washington
Olympic Peninsula