Parks & local places
Horizon Pointe Park · Chehalis Western Trail · community open space. Check the route and public access from the home you’re considering.
Lacey area · Subdivision
Avonlea
Multiple builders contributed; Gemini’s documented finishing phase included 39 homes.
Regional housing context
Later subdivisions, established homes, age-restricted communities and different one-level/two-story plans.
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Schools to check
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Open the county’s Elections and Schools Map or Property Map. Search the address, then confirm the result with the district.
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North Thurston Public Schools ↗
Find Your School: follow the district’s address-search instructions. This is a regional starting point, not a confirmed assignment for Avonlea.
An ordinary week
Parks, errands & getting around
Regional orientation for Yelm Highway & South Lacey. Nearby places and services are not promised amenities of this community.
Try the grocery run
Compare groceries, pharmacy stops and your other regular errands from the actual driveway. Check store hours and the trip at the time you normally go.
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Yelm Highway · College Street · Ruddell Road · Rainier Road · Balustrade Boulevard. Test the connection from your street at your actual travel hours.
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More about Avonlea
The local context, parcel samples and source-specific builder research stay available below.
Map, location & local context
Regional location context
Yelm Highway & South Lacey · regional overview
This is a regional context map, not a verified pin or boundary for Avonlea. Use recorded locations below when available; confirm the parcel before relying on a neighborhood name.
Find the recorded locations
These searches help you find an address or sampled street; they do not draw a neighborhood boundary. Confirm the result against the source records below.
Streets: OpenStreetMap. Outlines: City of Olympia association data, retrieved September 19, 2026. Association outlines are not city limits or the full extent of every guide.View all neighborhoods →
Where it fits
Location & local context.
The Yelm Highway corridor contains several distinct settings: Horizons/College Street in the west and Mullen/McAllister/Seasons farther east. City and county territory meet here.
Within: Horizons / College Street
Regional jurisdiction context: City, urban-growth-area and county parcels meet here. Indian Summer is checked per parcel.
Sampled parcel jurisdictions: Lacey. This is separate from the regional browsing label.
Housing, subdivisions & builder research
Verified builder research · October 15, 2026
Documented builders & source scope
Other builders may also have contributed; not all home and phase records have been reconciled. Property-level evidence applies to the named property, and community evidence applies only to the documented offering or phase.
Gemini Homes
Documented Rice/Andrews partnership; no legal-entity merger
Documented phase only; multiple builders possible
Names as recorded in the sources
Gemini Homes (Rob Rice and Dennis Andrews) · Multiple builders; Gemini Homes for the documented phase.
Display labels do not establish corporate identity or succession.
Documented community offerings & phases
- Avonlea · documented community participation
Named community / documented phase only
Source 1 ↗ - Avonlea · documented community participation
Named community / documented phase only
Source 1 ↗Source 2 ↗Source 3 ↗
Download the countywide verified property evidence (CSV) ↓ · Coverage & attribution method →
What the records establish
Housing, development history & ownership.
- Construction history
- Gemini phase began in 1994; not every Avonlea house’s year.
- Housing & styles
- An architectural style is not inferred from a year-built field. Confirm the actual house and original plans.
- Homebuilder
- Multiple builders; Gemini Homes for the documented phase.
- Street examples
- AVONLEA DR SE · SEVILLE DR SE · KAPALEA WAY SE · INGLESIDE DR SE. Sample streets, not a boundary or a matched parcel list.
- Parcel-sample jurisdiction
- Lacey. This reflects the sampled parcels, not every property in the wider browsing region.
Other builders may also have contributed; not all home and phase records have been reconciled. The documented attribution applies only to the community, offering or phase identified above.
Recorded names & construction-year samples (5 record groups)
October 10, 2026 research snapshot. These are legal-description search groups, not a count of homes or certified plat boundaries. Divisions, phases and similarly named records remain separate. Year-built fields can include later replacement buildings and non-house property types.
| Recorded name | Year-built sample | Residential lot sample |
|---|---|---|
| AVONLEA1 named parcel observations | 19941 year observations · median 1994 | 0.14 acres median1 acreage observations |
| AVONLEA DIV 153 named parcel observations | 1994–199752 year observations · median 1995 | 0.14 acres median52 acreage observations |
| AVONLEA DIV 221 named parcel observations | 1995–199721 year observations · median 1995 | 0.15 acres median21 acreage observations |
| AVONLEA DIV 324 named parcel observations | 1995–199724 year observations · median 1996 | 0.15 acres median24 acreage observations |
| AVONLEA DIV 439 named parcel observations | 1995–199839 year observations · median 1997 | 0.14 acres median39 acreage observations |
Acreage is the median of positive lot-size observations below 100 acres coded RES in the research, not a measurement of every home lot. Samples can be incomplete or overlap; do not add them to calculate community totals. Confirm the actual parcel, original permit, additions and recorded map before relying on a date or size.
Evidence: history documented. Development dates, association formation and individual home completion are separate facts. Research updated October 10, 2026.
- Southern College Street development history ↗First-party Avonlea, Lexington, Stonegate and Kensington history.
- Chicago Title Thurston | HOA directory July 2022 workbook and older entries ↗Source-specific claims; does not establish every phase or parcel
- County parcel attributes and representative coordinate points ↗All object IDs retrieved; parcel names parsed, not original plat certification
Questions to take to a showing
The useful details
What changes from one home to the next?
This is a named subdivision. The recorded plat, phase and parcel explain the legal footprint; the community name alone does not establish a home’s age, builder or shared rights.
What the records show
The county research keeps 5 recorded-name groups separate. “AVONLEA DIV 1” has 52 county records with a year built from 1994–1997, median 1995; sampled residential lots have a 0.14-acre median (52 observations); “AVONLEA DIV 4” has 39 county records with a year built from 1995–1998, median 1997; sampled residential lots have a 0.14-acre median (39 observations). These assessor samples help compare building eras, but do not establish the first or last home in a subdivision or the permit history of an individual address. 3 additional groups appear in the table below.
The sampled county records include AVONLEA DR SE, SEVILLE DR SE, KAPALEA WAY SE and 1 more street names in Lacey. These are sampled records, not a mapped neighborhood boundary.
Questions to take to a showing
- Which recorded plat, phase and lot does the address belong to?
- Who provides water, sewer, permits and road maintenance at this exact address?
- What year does the assessor record for this house, and which additions or major replacements have permits?
Compare another local name
Both profiles are grouped under Horizons / College Street in this guide. Their legal plats and obligations may still differ.
A separately planned community whose HOA documents 844 single-family homes.
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