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Built in 1908, [a] the Olympic Club Hotel was originally known as the Oxford Hotel [3] and contained a bar and pool hall. The club was severely damaged in a fire in 1913 but was rebuilt. [2] Notorious train robber Roy Gardner, known as the "Gentleman Bandit", [1] was re-captured at the then-Oxford Hotel after escaping federal custody in 1921. [4]
South of Pe Ell, spanning the Chehalis River: Pe Ell: Covered wooden bridge carrying a water main for the town of Pe Ell over the Chehalis River. The bridge was declared destroyed by the state in 1990 and remnants were washed away during the Great Coastal Gale of 2007. [28] [29]
The Chehalis Downtown Historic District is located in Chehalis, Washington and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.One of three NRHP districts in the city, including the Hillside Historic District and Pennsylvania Avenue-West Side Historic District, the district represents three separate development periods.
The Chehalis-Centralia Railroad Museum (CCRM) is located south of the veteran's museum and hosts the Chehalis–Centralia Railroad which offers an 18.0-mile (29.0 km) passenger train ride that traverses through the Twin City corridor and the Chehalis River Valley. [164]
Centralia is host to various other NRHP sites including the George E. Birge House, the Hubbard Bungalow, and the Wesley Everest Gravesite. The NRHP-listed Centralia Downtown Historic District is home to McMenamin's Olympic Club Hotel & Theater [40] a registered historic hotel and restaurant that opened in 1908.
The Pennsylvania Avenue-West Side Historic District was originally owned by several prominent members of the Chehalis Land & Timber Company (CL&T), including the Coffman and Donahoe families, Daniel Millett of Millett Field, Chehalis civil servant William Muir Urquhart, and William West, namesake of W. F. West High School. West, along with the ...
The Great Northwest: The Story of a Land and Its People, American West Independent Publishing, 1973, p. 38, ISBN 9780910118323, Because of the Chehalis Gap and the Olympic Mountains, precipitation decreases markedly from southwest to northeast through the Puget Sound. The gap allows moist winds to enter the southern part of the sound, giving ...
The O. B. McFadden House is the historic home of Obadiah B. McFadden [b] and is located in Chehalis, Washington. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1975 and is situated south of Millett Field. The house is the oldest structure in Lewis County and the oldest residence in Chehalis.