Location: 2519 Fire Ct SE Local register No vintage photograph has been located; if you have one to share, please contact us Joseph and Marion Chambers house today (2013), photo by Deb Ross Until well into the 20th century, the Boulevard Road section of east Olympia was rural, consisting of modest homes, many with…
Location: 2932 Orange St. SE Wohleb John Clark House 1941, Thurston County Assessor, Washington State Archives John Clark House today (2015), photo by Deb Ross The John Clark House is one of several concrete brick homes built around 1940 in the neighborhood of Eskridge and Orange Streets, in the Stratford Place plat that was developed by Frederick Schmidt…
Location: 421 4th Ave E Wohleb; Transportation; Religious institutions United Presbyterian Church, undated, courtesy of Westminster Presbyterian Goodyear tire building (2013), photo by Deb Ross United Presbyterian Church, now Westminster Presbyterian Church, is another participant in the game of “musical pews” described in our listing for Gloria Dei. The church was organized in 1893 in a room of…
Location: 529 4th Ave W Wohleb; mid-Century modern Memorial Clinic building, 1949, Thurston County Assessor, Washington State Archives Memorial Clinic building in 2013, photo by Deb Ross The Memorial Clinic building was designed by local architect father and son team Robert and Joseph Wohleb and built in 1948. The photograph at above left was…
Location: 3520 Boulevard Rd SE No vintage photograph of this house has been located; if you have one to share, please contact us. Merryman House today (2014), photo by Deb Ross The Merryman House was built some time between 1892 and 1903 (sources vary) by Alexander Merryman, who arrived in Thurston County in 1890. It…
Location: 525 Columbia St SW Diversity: Jewish heritage; Women’s History; Wohleb Olympia Junk Co. 1914, Robert Esterly, courtesy of Washington State Historical Society Olympia Junk Co building today (2012) photograph by Matt Kennelly The building that stands at the northwest corner of Legion and Columbia was built in 1925 to house the Olympia Junk Company.…
Location: 1315 Eskridge Blvd SE Wohleb Frank T. Schmidt House 1941, Thurston County Assessor, Washington State Archives Frank Schmidt House today (2015), photo by Deb Ross The Frank Schmidt House was built in 1939, across the street from Frank’s brother Frederick Schmidt’s home on Orange Street, in a section of Olympia that was being developed by…
Location: 2831 Orange St SE Local, State and National registers; Wohleb Frederick W Schmidt House 1939, Thurston County Assessor, Washington State Archives Frederick W Schmidt House today (2013), photo by Deb Ross The elegant and distinctive English Revival style of the Frederick W. Schmidt House, built in 1937-1938, was conceived by…
Location: 127 17th Ave SW Local register; South Capitol National Historic District Winstanley House 1938, Thurston County Assessor, Washington State Archives Winstanley House today (2013), photo by Deb Ross This house was built about 1910 by Guy Winstanley, who was a partner with Robert Blankenship in a downtown tobacco shop (see article Meet the Yantises…
