Port Townsend · Uptown
Manresa Castle
Baker Charles Eisenbeis's 1892 brick mansion on Castle Hill, bought by the Jesuits in 1925 and enlarged in 1928, now a hotel.
- Built
- 1892Erected 1892 by baker and developer Charles Eisenbeis as his residence; the Jesuit order bought it in 1925 and added a wing in 1928.
- Type
- Inn
- Area
- Uptown
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The story
Charles Eisenbeis, a Prussian-born baker who became one of Port Townsend’s leading developers, built the castle-like brick house at the peak of the boom in 1892. The Jesuit order bought it in 1925, named it Manresa Hall and added a wing and an elevator in 1928. It has operated as a hotel in recent decades; it was auctioned in 2004 and sold in 2016 to H&R Hospitality.
The ghost story
Guests have long reported footsteps in the attic and voices in empty rooms, and two stories grew up around them, of a priest said to have hanged himself in the building and a young woman named Kate said to have leapt from a window after hearing her fiancé was lost at sea; but the hotel's former manager admitted that a bartender invented both, the Peninsula Daily News reported in 2006.
Source: www.peninsuladailynews.com
Good to know
- Address: 651 Cleveland Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368
Sources (2)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.