JBH House open for tours on August 17

The Julia Butler Hansen Heritage Center, 35 Butler St., Cathlamet, will be open for tours on Wednesday, August 17 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Julia Butler Hansen House is the oldest house in Cathlamet and is owned by the Wahkiakum Community Foundation who restored it in 2005.

Tours will be given by David Hansen, son of former owner, Congresswoman Julia Butler Hansen. The house was occupied by the same family for over 100 years and contains Julia’s political mementos, family photos and original furnishings as well as the collection of historical watercolors depicting Cathlamet in the 1880s and 1890s, done by Julia’s mother, Maude Kimball Butler, a noted Southwest Washington artist.