home + design This vacation home in Seabeck is a simple cabin with views.
Off the Beaten Path Low-key vacation homes allow their owners to relish Washington’s far-flung corners written by Melissa Dalton
A Modern Cabin in Hood Canal
Andrew Pogue
EVERYONE VACATIONS a little differently. While some need the hustle and bustle of a foreign city, others, like John Connor and Julie Cohn, seek the opposite. One of their favorite destinations is their cabin outside Seabeck, a former mill town on Hood Canal, which has a population of just more than 1,000 people and sports a general store, pizzeria and espresso stand. “The fundamental tenets of Western civilization are all there,” Connor said. “Coffee shop, pizza, groceries and beer—it’s got everything.” Connor and Cohn discovered Seabeck and the Hood Canal area more than twenty years ago, when his family started having summer reunions there. After returning every year, the Houston, Texas, residents decided to make the relationship permanent and bought land to build a retreat of their own.
28 1889 WASHINGTON’S MAGAZINE
AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2019
