Goldie Funk

Funk House

Locations of Historic InterestBy Olympia Historical Society February 9, 2012

Location: 1202 Olympia Ave NE National, State and Local Register, Olympia Avenue Local Historical District, Women’s History Funk House in 1939, Thurston County Assessor, State Archives Funk House today (2010), photo by Joe Mabel posted on Wikimedia Commons The Funk House, one of the most elaborate Queen Anne homes in Olympia, was built in about…

Funk: Doane’s Oyster Pan Roast

TranscriptionsBy Olympia Historical Society December 14, 2009

Captain Doane’s Oyster Pan Roast By Goldie Robertson Funk Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 43 (April 1952) 154-157. WHEN GOVERNORS and judges, legislators and lobbyists of the Northwest are but dimly remembered, the name of Captain Doane of Olympia, Washington, and his Oyster Pan Roast will still be household words. For a whole generation most…