Governors Point is a 125-acre peninsula at the base of Chuckanut mountain and is surrounded by the Salish Sea, one of the world’s largest and most ecologically rich inland seas. The Chuckanut formations are from the Eocene age, deposited some 54 million years ago. The nature of the deposits and included plant fossils indicate a low-lying coastal plain with a subtropical climate with a total thickness of about 20,000 ft, making the Chuckanut Formation one of the thickest non-marine sedimentary sequences in North America. Governors Point Land LP purchased the land in 2018 with a unique and poetic intention. The broad goals include preserving its delicate ecology, sharing it with the local community and only intervening with an architectural language sensitive to the site and its narrative. Architecture and the site must be considered as one and the same, not as elements in opposition.

98 out of 125 acres will be donated to the Whatcom Land Trust for a public access nature reserve with a 2+ mile loop trail. The trail will access viewpoints and beaches on both sides of the peninsula, punctuated by small architectural follies, with the remaining 27 acres developed into 16 homesites.