The Columbia Hall, located where the 4th Ave Tav is now, was a combined police station, fire station, City Hall, and gathering place. Here members of Olympia’s finest pose in front of the hall, sporting their law enforcement badges.
Oscar Sternberg photograph, 1905, Courtesy Washington State Historical Society, State Capital Museum collection, catalog C1943.1003.10
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2017