Many of West Seattle's craftsman houses went up in the early 1900s, as the streetcars made the peninsula an easy ride from downtown and families came looking for a house with a porch and a yard.
The style grew out of the Arts and Crafts movement, which prized honest materials and good handwork over factory ornament. Builders worked from plan books, and some houses even arrived by rail as kits.
The Junction Retreat is one of them, a renovated craftsman. Our tagline is the line on your magnet: Stay like a local. To us it means the good stuff here is the ordinary stuff, like coffee on the corner, the Sunday market and a walk to the water at sunset.