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Originally a three-story building, the building began as a club house of what was called the Olympic Club. Completed on 09/01/1908, this club featured boxing, billiards and wrestling events, drawing spectators from the mainland, where wrestling was largely banned. Soon after 1908, various owners began operating a general store on the building's first floor; the most durable of these was known as the Langley Mercantile and General Store, run by Walter Hunziker, Sr, beginning c. 1912. After Prohibition, the store space was opened as a bar and quickly became a community watering hole. This venerable Dog House Tavern operated in Langley, WA, from c. 1908-2008 under different owners. The building served as a central meeting area in the small Whidbey Island town of Langley, and was declared an Historic Landmark by the South Whidbey Historical Association.

In its early years, the Olympic Club housed a general store on its first floor, a gymnasium on the lower floor, and a stage and auditorium on its upper story. The wood-frame building had a false front with a canopy shading the retail windows of the general store. An exterior stairway led to the auditorium upstairs. Tel: (206) 321-9996 (1993); in 2009, this was Langley, WA's only building included on the National Register of Historic Places.

PCAD id: 14353