Throughout 2021 the Sunday Olympian’s Looking Back feature portrayed events and people from the Sylvester’s Window cityscape project. The cityscape project portrays what Sylvester Park and Olympia might have looked like through history, from the vantage point of a window high in the tower of Sylvester Mansion, overlooking the park. For this last image of the year, we showed the mansion, this image captured soon after it was built around 1856.
Photo courtesy State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C2009.0.1044
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2021