McCoy-Trullinger House

Location: 121 19th Ave SW
Local register; South Capitol National Historic Neighborhood

McCoy/Trullinger House, 1939, Thurston County Assessor, Washington State Archives

McCoy/Trullinger House today (2014), photo by Deb Ross

This Craftsman style house was built by George and Edith McCoy about 1923. It was purchased a few years later by Rae and Truman Trullinger. Mr. Trullinger was Mayor of Olympia for several years in the 1940s. He was also one of the “Doorstep Babies” chronicled in Workingman’s Hill, chapter 9.

The house is on the local register and located in the South Capitol National Historic Neighborhood.

Links:

Olympia Heritage inventory

South Capitol National Historic Neighborhood

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