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Old Thurston County Courthouse
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#509 — A close up picture taken of the
Old
Thurston
County
Court House building located in the state capitol of Washington State, Olympia.
Thurston
County
built this sober gray
courthouse
in 1930, directly across the street from the state's new Capitol Campus. The plain, smooth face of Wohleb's
courthouse
boasts little decoration beyond a few bands of low-relief carving and four imperious eagles perched above the front doors. Its stepped-back upper floor, with smaller windows, was once the
county
jail. For almost half a century this
courthouse
was the focus of
county
government. It was where
County
Commissioners tended to business, where votes were tallied on election night and where couples came for their marriage license. When
Thurston
County
outgrew this space and moved to a larger
courthouse
complex in 1977, the
old
gray sandstone building was slated for demolition. It was saved through a groundswell of public support, but sat vacant for more than a decade before it was finally restored and reopened as mixed-use office space. The south courtroom now houses the law library of the State Attorney General's Office. The building is open to the public.
Old
Thurston
County
Court House, Washington