Foursquare Church/Capital City Studios (burned down 2014)

Location: 911 4th Ave E
Religion, Popular Culture

Foursquare Congregation, 1941, Vibert Jeffers photograph, Susan Parish Collection, Southwest Regional Archives

Capital City Studios today (2009), photo courtesy Jason Scragz, posted on Flickr

This building was originally the Foursquare Gospel church of Olympia, the denomination founded by Aimee Semple McPherson. It was built in 1939 using donated materials and labor, and was in an Ecclesiastical design with Craftsmen style elements. In later years it was used as the home of the Olympia Film Society, a recording studio, and a music hall. The building burned down in 2014.

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Olympia Heritage inventory

Washington State Historical Society, enter the catalog number in the Collections Search Box: C1986.43.61.1.26.1.25

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