After the move to the mansion, Meeker, Brines, and Thompson donated the cabin site to the city, which they turned into Pioneer Park.

During the years in which Meeker lived at the mansion, he worked to trace and mark the Oregon Trail,[2] also spending many hours writing on the subject as well as the history of Puget Sound (he would produce twelve books on these topics).

After the failure of the hop crop, Ezra would turn his attention to the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon, establishing a store from which he supplied goods to miners.

The property would go up for sale in 1903, but remained the Meekers' home until 1905 when they moved to Seattle to live with their daughter Caroline Osborne.

According to Ezra Meeker's letters during his 1906 journey back through the Oregon Trail, the house was rented out, via Eliza Jane's former companion Mrs. Katherine Graham, to boarders.

Ezra would return to the house quite frequently as the landlord, even keeping a small room on the third floor for times he stayed the night.

[3] In 1915 the house was purchased for $8,000 to use as a home for widows and orphans of the Civil War by the Washington and Alaska Chapter of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic.

[4] The mansion would largely house elderly ladies whose fathers, brothers, uncles, or husbands had served in the Civil War.

As it started to become more and more expensive to keep the historic home aligned with the Fire Code the Kings looked to move their facility to another building by the late 1960s.

A porte-cochere (carriage entrance) is found on the west side with wooden, circular stairs leading to the sun porch.

[2] Shortly after the house was finished the Meekers' contracted again with Farrell and Darmer to build them a conservatory heated by the same boiler as the Mansion.

Originally each room in the family wing of the house would have had picture rail, decorated metal doorknobs and hinges, built-in bolt locks on the doors, and inside wooden shutters.

The ceilings are decorated with frescos and frieze work created by American painter Frederick Nelson Atwood Jr.

The main entrance to the building was in the hallway, consisting of double doors of walnut with panels of leaded, stained glass.

A large stained glass window was on the west side of the hallway and also made up part of the sun room.

[2] The Ezra Meeker Mansion was built in the Italianate Victorian style, of which it displays many elements including high-quality imported fireplaces; leaded stained glass windows, and unusual woods used throughout the interior.