Westside Grocery

Location: 903 Rogers St NW
Local register

No vintage photographs of this building have been scanned. If you have one to share, please contact us.

Westside Grocery building today (2013), photo by Deb Ross

The Westside Grocery building is a long-time fixture in Olympia, built about 1902. It operated as a grocery store until very recently, with the store on the ground floor and living space above. Almost unchanged both interior and exterior since its construction, it is on the local register.

Additional resources:

Olympia heritage inventory,

Little Rock logging by Clark Kinsey – 3/16/2025
Looking Back’s theme for 2025 features Thurston County area photographers, artists, and their subjects. Clark Kinsey was one of three brothers who documented the logging and lumber industry in the late 19th and early 20th century. Although he was not from Thurston County, he and his family spent several seasons in Grays Harbor, Mason, and…
March 16, 2025
Edna Rogers – 3-9-25
Looking Back’s theme for 2025 features Thurston County area photographers, artists, and their subjects. Adelbert D. (A.D.) Rogers was a prolific Olympia-based photographer. His primary subjects were portraits, including this portrait of his daughter Edna, from around 1884. Photograph selected and captioned by Deborah Ross on behalf of the Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House…
March 9, 2025
A.D. Rogers – 3/2/25
Looking Back’s theme for 2025 features Thurston County area photographers, artists, and their subjects. Adelbert D. (A.D.) Rogers was a prolific Olympia-based photographer. His primary subjects were portraits, including this self-portrait from around 1890. Among many other subjects over the years, A.D. Rogers was commissioned to take the photographic portraits of nearly every member of…
March 2, 2025