Editing Port Townsend, Washington (section)

===Historical buildings and sites===
[[File:Frank Bartlett House Port Townsend.jpg|thumb|Bartlett House, built in 1883]]
Port Townsend is noted for its Victorian houses and significant historical buildings. The city has more than a dozen large, well-preserved buildings, including the Port Townsend Public Library (a 1913 [[Carnegie library|Carnegie Library]]), the Federal Building (now commonly known as the city's post office), the Rose Theatre, and the [[Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks|Elks]] Lodge, which now houses Silverwater Cafe. [[Fort Worden]], now a state park, has retained some of its pre-[[World War I]] architecture built when it was a military facility. Buildings have been adapted for other uses, including the publicly available Olympic Youth Hostel, which closed in 2011. The Jefferson County Courthouse is in a Romanesque architectural style, as popularized by [[Henry Hobson Richardson]], with a 125-foot bell tower.
[[Image:PortTownsendWA BellTower.jpg|thumb|upright|Bell Tower]]

In 1976, the Downtown waterfront and parts of Uptown were designated a Registered Historic District. Later, [[Fort Worden]] (now part of [[Fort Worden State Park]]) and the City of Port Townsend were designated [[National Historic Landmark]]s.<ref name="St. George"/>

The Bell Tower on the bluff above downtown is one of two known towers of this type in the United States. It was used from 1890 to the 1940s to call volunteer firefighters. It was restored in 2003 by the Jefferson County Historical Society.<ref>Notes from Jefferson County Historical Society</ref> The second bell tower is located in [[Helena, Montana]], and was also used for fire alarms during the late 19th century.