Beck Fiskal House

Location: 2324 7th Ave SE
Local register

Fiskal House, 1969, Thurston County Assessor, Southwest Regional Archives

Fiskal House today (2014), photo by Deb Ross

Tucked into a quiet street off Boulevard Road, this modest Craftsman style home was built about 1915. It belonged to Florentine Beck Fiskal, and her first and second husbands Charles Beck and Andrew Fiskal and their children. Mrs. Beck Fiskal was French, and worked at the Olympia Canning Company and other locations downtown. The home and its immediate neighborhood, adjacent to the Forest Memorial Gardens, are a reminder of Olympia’s rural heritage. The home is well maintained and on the local register.

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