WEEKEND: Victorian tea, bazaar, tours offered at historic Sequim building starting today

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Dec. 4.

SEQUIM — An old-fashioned Victorian tea and baked treats will be served during the Annual Christmas Tea and Bazaar at the historic Dungeness Schoolhouse this weekend.

The tea and holiday sale will be from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. today and Saturday at the building at 2781 Towne Road.

Admission is free.

A bake sale, Christmas gift sale and appearances by Santa and Mrs. Claus are planned. Holiday music will fill the rooms.

Antique cars will be displayed on the old school’s former playground.

Tours will be given of the building, which opened as a schoolhouse in February 1893 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A new elevator lift provides access to the second floor.

The tea and sale is the biggest fundraiser of the year to support the maintenance of the building.

“Donations, grants, rental fees and loving gifts keep this ‘Old Beauty’ open to the public, so please come out to support her future long life,” the Museum

& Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley, which owns the schoolhouse, says on its website at http://sequimmuseum.com.

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