Sunday, August 21, 2016
Saturday, August 20, 2016
The McCleary Mansion
Built in Olympia in the 1920s. The large foyer was designed to accommodate the expected social gatherings due to Ada McCleary's high position within the DAR. Unfortunately, Ada died before construction of this building was complete. The two trees in front are actual cedars of Lebanon. The back yard, where a newer building now resides, was once a beautiful and large garden. The McCleary bedroom, which was basically an enormous apartment, was on the upper floor to the left.
After Henry McCleary's death the building was cut up into apartments, but by the 1960s it was an office building and included an orthodontist. In recent times it has become the headquarters for a lobbyist group.
Friday, August 19, 2016
Observation chair
Nature's confetti celebrates the opening of the Season of Crappy Weather
Steampunk at Simpson
Although Simpson has downsized in other parts of their company, the McCleary operations remain, fortunately for us.
The place seems bigger on the inside than the outside. It is an enormous and impressive facility.
That is one determined mole
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Library and Post Office
East County News
The Montesano Vidette, which began in the 1880s and is the oldest newspaper in the county in spite of the title changes, is subscription-based and includes McCleary news.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Things that are gone, things that are new
A view from inside the McCleary Post Office. Through the windows on the left you see the now extinct old Rhodes Grocery and McCleary Stimulator office, where the new clinic now sits. Through the door windows on the left you see the vacant lot where a drive-thru coffee place called The Coffee Shop now exists.
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