Founding members included Mehitable Elder, Pamela Case Hale, Mary Hartsock, Janet Moore, Phebe Moore, Mary Shelton, Ella Stork, Abbie Howard Hunt Stuart, and Sarah E.

[2] A grant of $25,000 was obtained in 1903, which like other Carnegie grants included requirements for the local community to meet, and led to the building in 1914 of the Olympia Public Library.

[6] It replaced the original clubhouse purchased in 1900 that was destroyed by fire in 1907.

[2] The current building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as Woman's Club.

[1] It is a three-story hipped roof building, 53 by 55 feet (16 m × 17 m) in plan.