Bergquist Millwork Building

Location: 402 Washington St NE

Bergquist Millwork Building, 1954, Thurston County Assessor, Washington State Archives

Bergquist Millwork building today (2013), photo by Deb Ross

The Bergquist Millwork Building, erected in 1936, is another example of the functional commercial buildings erected in the Port area in the early part of the 20th Century. In the 1940s it was the home of Bergquist Mill Works. The building sustained damage during the 1949 earthquake.

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Washington State Historical Society photographs, enter the following catalog number in the collection search box 2013.23.12

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