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This image shows what is now Capitol Campus from the East, looking Southwest. The Territorial Capitol is pictured at the left hand side, below the inlet.
Olympia's founder, Edmund Sylvester, gave 12 acres of land for the Capitol in 1855. The Territorial Capitol was built in 1856 for $5,000, and was intended as a temporary space. Although construction did not begin on the new Legislative Building (which stands in its place) until 1922, the Territorial Capitol building was used until 1903.
Notice that Capitol Way is labeled "Main Street". Part of Robert Milroy's house is visible at the corner of 11th and Main.
This image shows Capitol Campus from the East, looking Northwest. The domed Legislative Building stands in the place of the Territorial Capitol.
After a failed 1893 competition (stalled due to budgetary issues), another was held in 1911 to design the State Capitol Building for Olympia. Walter Wilder and Harry White won the competition, and The Olmsted brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts, asked to prepare the landscape designs. Construction stalled, due to money and construction issues, until the cornerstone was laid in 1922. The exterior of the building was not finished until 1926.
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