Buildings uprooted for new life as ‘living history’

Published 5:06 am Monday, March 10, 2008

SEQUIM — They were like a couple of school children: picked up in the country, dropped off in town.

Except these were mature kids: the 133-year-old Captain Morris house and the 116-year-old Washington Harbor schoolhouse.

Around 7 a.m. Sunday, the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Museum & Arts Center, or MAC, had the buildings moved from the hill at Sequim-Dungeness Way and Medsker Road to the MAC’s property at 544 N. Sequim Ave., across from Sequim High School.

Last year’s MAC Nite auction raised $13,500 to foot the bill for the 1.2-mile trip.

MAC executive director Katherine Vollenweider has big plans for the small structures that were donated to the MAC decades ago.