A magical place hosting workshops and events plus artist pop-ups, usually featuring flowers and foliage grown right here at Faraway, on beautiful Filucy Bay.
The Barn Marché, at Faraway.
About our name.
The Barn Marché is a play on words, meant to honor and celebrate Frank & Josephine McDermott, the founders of The Bon Marché department store chain in Seattle in the late 1800s.
That same drive the McDermotts shared to build the very best department stores inspired them to build Far-A-Way, a summer retreat in Longbranch, Washington in 1915, sparing no expense when it came to details.
Because there was only a small dirt road on this part of Key Peninsula, building this sprawling waterfront estate was a challenge; all craftsmen and materials were brought from Seattle via steamship, which took 3 hours each way.
We have not only saved the original 100+ year old dairy barn, but transformed it into a floral shop and demonstration kitchen on the main floor, and an airy light-filled open workspace in the loft.
It has been a work-in-progress full of mud, sweat & tears since buying the run-down property in 2016, but we are ready!
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The Barn Marché
6506 Cliff Avenue SW
Longbranch, WA 98351
(206) 390-5529
The barn in 2016, the year we bought Faraway, and mid-restoration in 2020.
The first Bon Marché
This photo is believed to be taken around 1895 in Seattle.
This is the beginning of the Nordhoff (later McDermott) empire of Bon Marché department stores.
The Bon Marché - 1928
This is the same era that Faraway - the summer home of the founders of The Bon Marché - was in its hey day!