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Hoquiam (/ ˈ h oʊ k w i ə m / HOH-kwee-əm) is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. It borders the city of Aberdeen at Myrtle Street, with Hoquiam to the west. The two cities share a common economic history in lumbering and exporting, but Hoquiam has maintained its independent identity.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
Hoquiam's Castle, also known as the Robert Lytle Mansion, is a private residence in Hoquiam, Washington. Built in 1897 and completed in 1900, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [2]
The Lytle brothers, Robert and Joseph, ran a grocery business in Fairhaven, Washington, then moved their business to Hoquiam. [2] In the 1880s, Hoquiam became a center for lumber. [3] When a customer paid his bill by turning over his logging operation, the brothers became part of the logging industry. [2]
Olympic Stadium is a stadium in Hoquiam, Washington which opened in 1938. The City of Hoquiam first got the idea for an all-wood stadium in the early 1930s when it applied for a Civil Works Administration grant. In 1932, the grant was approved. Construction began in early 1938, with the stadium officially opening to the public on November 24, 1938.
Waterfront of Aberdeen, Washington in 1912, along the Chehalis River, showing a four-masted schooner loading lumber, and on the north side of the river, a sternwheeler moored at a dock Steamboats operated on Grays Harbor , a large coastal bay in the State of Washington, and on the Chehalis and Hoquiam rivers which flow into Grays Harbor near ...
"The city of Hoquiam has a history of working with conservation districts; the previous forest management plan/watershed plan was written by the conservation district in the early to mid-90s."
Grays Harbor is an estuarine bay located 45 miles (72 km) north of the mouth of the Columbia River, on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state, in the United States. It is a ria , which formed at the end of the last ice age, when sea levels flooded the Chehalis River .