Museum is open from May to October on Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm and Sunday from 1 pm to 4 pm.
The museum features changing exhibits of home life in South Kitsap during the past 100 years as well as items typically used and tells the ongoing story of the Orchards. The cabin was built by Allen Bartow in 1914. Bartow, a Civil War veteran, newspaper man, and retired Indian agent for the Suquamish reservation, built the cabin for his wife Louise. All her life she had wished to live in a log cabin, but due to Allen's transient type of employment, had been unable to do so until his retirement. The Bartows lived in the cabin until 1922 when due to failing health, they both moved into the Washington State Veterans Home in Retsil. Their son and daughter-in-law, Henry and Edith Bartow, resided in the cabin until its sale in 1931.
