Looking Back’s theme for 2026 is Downtown by the Decades. College-educated Emily Olivia Richardson married Unitarian pastor John Calvin Kimball in 1860 and accompanied him to Olympia, Washington Territory in 1872. In 1873, she painted this image of the city, looking north on Main Street (Capitol Way) from around 10th Avenue (about three blocks south of the future site of the first Unitarian church building, which wasn’t erected until 1877). Image selected and captioned by Deborah Ross on behalf of the Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum, https://olympiahistory.org.