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Trimble made millions in Seattle real estate and purchased Blake Island in the early 1900s. He and his wife built this 12-room dwelling as a retreat from the city. More formal than most weekend cabins, the Trimble House had a 40-foot long great room whose ceilings were supported by old-growth Douglas fir timbers, formal gardens, wide lawns, tended orchards and a tennis court. William Pitt abandoned the Blake Island house after his wife drowned in an auto accident in late 1929.

This house was a shingled, large scale bungalow, with low gabled rooflines and shed dormers to illuminate a second floor. Rough-hewn Douglas fir posts supported a wrap-around front porch, set under a wide eaves overhang.

Demolished by fire in the late 1940s; in 2008,Russell Neyman, a local history buff, revealed that two high school students, Don Winslow and his friend, Keith Williams, accidently started the fire after they became temporarily stranded on the island and sought refuge in the house.

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