Lee’s Landing Announcement

The Home Trust is proud to announce that we have renamed our Argyle Affordable Housing Project in honor of Lee Sturdivant. Lee was one of the Home Trust founders and was a tremendous torch carrier for the cause of affordable housing on San Juan Island.

Lois “Lee” Stegall Sturdivant (December 4, 1931 – November 26, 2025) studied journalism in Southern California, wrote for local papers and started a successful beachwear manufacturing company, learning to sail in her free time. The family purchased a sailboat to explore the South Pacific.

Of course, everyone who comes to San Juan Island “lands” here but fittingly, Lee and her husband Tal Sturdivant (1925-2021) literally landed in Friday Harbor for the first time, sight-unseen, in 1979 and fell in love with the island and the people they met. Lee’s life was an adventure – whether sailing the seas, designing dresses for Saks Fifth Avenue, propagating herbs, or starting the San Juan Community Home Trust. May her memory and her values live on at Lee’s Landing!

Lee’s Landing Update

Lee’s Landing, which will provide 40 units of permanently affordable housing in Friday Harbor’s Historic District, with a low density, eco-friendly, community-oriented design and historic architectural detailing, right in Town within walking distance of all that Friday Harbor has to offer.

On June 1st, our architecture team submitted the Land Use permit application and architectural plans to the Town of Friday Harbor, and we expect to receive land use permit approvals to include in our funding applications to the State of Washington in September.

With State funding to add to the mix, we anticipate being ready to break ground in the Spring of 2027

Learn more on our In The Works page.