By Nancy Covert
Steilacoom’s original Oberlin Congregational Church on Lafayette Street shows signs of long-awaited historic preservation, as the current Steilacoom Tribal Museum and Cultural Center moves ahead with its plans to restore the 1800s structure. A new set of stairs leading to the building’s main entrance has been placed. Watch for further improvements to the museum site.
Aurora Toth says
The Oberlin Church was built in 1902 from an on-site donkey engine saw and local downed trees. The gray color the church is painted is the original color according to a find of some originally painted boards which had been hidden after a fire and remodel of the door area on the lower left side.