Above, left: In a Worthington House bedroom, standard household eyelet lacework lies on a beautifully hand-loomed coverlet made in 1876 and brought to Quilcene from New York as a family memento. Above, right: Vintage boxes line the third floor attic in the Worthington house. At left: Quilcene Historical Museum secretary Larry McKeehan takes a tea service out of an original china cupboard in the 1892 Worthington House.
later knocked the house off the foundation, but it was put right by another son, Robert, a forester, with the help of huge timbers the length of the house. In 1935, Mrs. Worthington died in the parlor, where she was bedridden with pernicious anemia. Mr. Worthington died the following year.
The Worthington children jointly inherited the house; those who had moved away made visits home after the deaths of their parents. When daughter Grace married in 1937, she was the last child to move out, and then caretakers were hired. With her husband and son, daughter Mariette spent summers there. Son Robert and his wife moved in with their
young daughter in 1944 and their son was born in 1945. They bought the house in 1946 from Robert’s siblings and continued to live much as the original Worthington family had, tending to the house and making improvements, working the garden and caring for their livestock. Around this time, a neighborhood irrigation district was put in place. Robert built a new garage, dismantled the milking parlor and the workhouse near the house, replacing them with a cement patio in 1954. Their children grown, Robert and his wife divorced in 1966. In 1974, he married again and the couple
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