Tillamook Coast Life Blog
Port Of Tillamook Bay – Officer’s Mess Hall
As a part of Naval Air Station Tillamook during WWII, construction of the Officer’s Mess Hall began in October 1942 and was completed in February 1943. Originally a building meant to feed the air station’s officers and house its bachelor officers, the facility was soon redesigned to be strictly a mess hall and provide sustenance to the station’s officers after long hours of anti-submarine patrols in the base’s airships. After the Navy decommissioned N.A.S. Tillamook, this property, which was deeded to US Department of Education which then deeded ownership to Tillamook School District #9, was acquired by the Port of Tillamook Bay in a land trade. Today the Officer’s Mess Hall is a multi- use building with space for long-term tenants and has a large event rental space.
