OCAW Winters Garage

Built in 1927, The Larry Winters Storage Garage by Teho. Rixon.  Over the years, the building has housed the Star Cleaners, offices and a gas and oil company in addition to the garage.

This structure is an example of how early downtown freely mixed a great variety of uses, placing an automobile-oriented business next to a hotel and was just one of several automobile services integrated into the downtown area around this time.  The Spanish Colonial style of this building was popular at the time and is found in other Port Angeles buildings.  It also resonates with the roots of the city's Spanish name.  The unexpected increase in the sizes of automobiles likely prompted the alteration of the front bay. 

Through its size, form, scale and materials, as well as its relationship to its neighbors and the street, this structure helped to establish the downtown's historical pattern of development.  It is a one-story, for bay facade, commercial row structure.  It has a single storefront bay with a multi-light transom and segmental arch to the west.  The original piers extend, as pilasters, up through a mission tile pent roof parapet with shallow front gable tile caps.  The roof is supporte dby heavy timber wood trusses exposed on the interior.