
The Bigelow House Museum is the oldest residence in Olympia, Washington, and one of the oldest still standing in the Pacific Northwest. It was built in the 1850s by pioneer lawyer and Territorial Legislator Daniel R. Bigelow and his schoolteacher wife Ann Elizabeth White Bigelow. Surrounded by more than an acre of the family's original land claim, the house is charming example of the Carpenter Gothic style popular in rural America during the mid-1800s.