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Overview

This complex featured two buildings: an indoor, salt-water swimming pool covered by a long hipped roof and an adjacent pavilion, open on the sides, sheltered by a series of five gabled roofs. Portions of the pavilion's platform were built on wood stilts over the water.

Building History

Just after the turn of the century, the town of West Seattle, WA, began to attract vacationers from Seattle and elsewhere. Investors formed companies to build amenities geared at amusing these visitors, including this swimming pool and dance pavilion, built across the street from to the fashionable Stockade Hotel on Alki Avenue. A wood frame supported the building housing the indoor pool, which was covered in wood shingles. Next door, over the water, an open-air pavilion was also erected to accommodate dances and other social gatherings.

Building Notes

A cupola, perhaps used for ventilation, topped the swimming pool buildng's hipped roof in the center.

PCAD id: 23295