Country United States Location Tumwater, Washington Town or city Tumwater Added to NRHP 22 May 1978 | Completed 1906 Opened 1906 Construction started 1906 | |
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Part of Tumwater Historic District (#78002782) Similar Tumwater Falls, Capitol Lake, Tumwater Historical Park, Tumwater Falls Park, Scott Lake | ||
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The 1906 Olympia Brewery brewhouse, known locally as "the Old Brewery", is located at the base of the Tumwater Falls in Tumwater, Washington. Once the manufacturing site for Olympia Beer, the classic Mission Revival structure, designed by prominent local architect Joseph Wohleb, replaced the initial wooden plant constructed in 1896. Dedicated in 1906, closed since the advent of Prohibition, this imposing redbrick structure has long served as a landmark for local residents and drivers along Interstate 5. A new brewery was built in 1934, uphill from the original brewhouse. Brewing operations in a modern plant on the site ended in 2003.
The brewery has been for sale since the collapse of a real estate deal with a bottled water company in 2007. After condemning previous owners' water rights in April 2008, the cities of Lacey, Olympia and Tumwater took possession of water rights once held by the former Olympia Brewing Company.
The original brewhouse is part of the Tumwater Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.