Patterson House

Location: 926 Bethel St NE
Local register

Patterson House, 1958, Thurston County Assessor, Southwest Regional Archives

Patterson House today (2014), photo by Deb Ross

The Patterson home was built in about 1926. It is an attractive, well-maintained Craftsman style home in the “Workingman’s Hill” neighborhood of northeast Olympia. Mr. Patterson was a well driller by profession. The home is on the local register.

Links:

Olympia Heritage Inventory

PCT/TCTV video about Bigelow Highlands Neighborhood, available for viewing on Youtube

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