Parks & local places
Watershed Park · Trillium Park. Check the route and public access from the home you’re considering.
Olympia area · Subdivision
Stratford Place
An early planned residential pocket with documented architect-designed houses.
Regional housing context
Early- and mid-century houses, ramblers, period homes, additions and infill.
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What year does the assessor record for this house, and which additions or major replacements have permits?
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Schools to check
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Olympia School District ↗
Enrollment information and the district’s school-boundary lookup. This is a regional starting point, not a confirmed assignment for Stratford Place.
An ordinary week
Parks, errands & getting around
Regional orientation for South Olympia · Carlyon & Wildwood. Nearby places and services are not promised amenities of this community.
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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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O’Farrell Avenue · Galloway Street · Eskridge Boulevard · Henderson Boulevard · I-5. Test the connection from your street at your actual travel hours.
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More about Stratford Place
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Map, location & local context
Regional location context
South Olympia · Carlyon & Wildwood · regional overview
This is a regional context map, not a verified pin or boundary for Stratford Place. Use recorded locations below when available; confirm the parcel before relying on a neighborhood name.
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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.
This inner south/southeast group follows older neighborhoods near Capitol Boulevard, Carlyon and the west side of Watershed Park. Boulevard/LBA and Ward Lake/Henderson have their own separate regions.
Regional jurisdiction context: City and urban-edge parcels can differ. Confirm jurisdiction, utilities and school assignment by address.
Sampled parcel jurisdictions: Olympia. This is separate from the regional browsing label.
Housing, subdivisions & builder research
What the records establish
Housing, development history & ownership.
- Construction history
- Development in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
- Residential lot sample
- 0.35 acres median across 2 residential observations. Individual lots vary; this is not a subdivision-wide minimum or maximum.
- Housing & styles
- An architectural style is not inferred from a year-built field. Confirm the actual house and original plans.
- Developer
- F. W. Schmidt
- Homebuilder
- Original builder has not been established in the sources reviewed.
- Architecture
- Robert Wohleb designed selected houses; not every property is attributed to him.
- Street examples
- ESKRIDGE BLVD SE · BOUNDARY ST SE. Sample streets, not a boundary or a matched parcel list.
- Parcel-sample jurisdiction
- Olympia. This reflects the sampled parcels, not every property in the wider browsing region.
- Developer
- Frederick W. Schmidt developed Stratford Place in the late 1930s and early 1940s.Source ↗
- Architecture · documented project
- Robert Wohleb designed multiple houses; attribution is specific to the houses documented in the context study.Source ↗
Recorded names & construction-year samples (1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| STRATFORD PLACE2 named parcel observations | 1954–19592 year observations · median 1956.5 | 0.35 acres median2 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.
- Olympia Modernism, 1945–1975 ↗April 2008 historical context, pages 11–12; developer and selected architect/builder attributions.
- Recorded maps and plats ↗Original plats and divisions establish legal subdivision geography.
- County parcel attributes and representative coordinate points ↗All object IDs retrieved; parcel names parsed, not original plat certification
- Washington Archives: Thurston historical plat maps ↗657 catalog entries on 33 pages; original images not comprehensively reviewed
- Washington Archives: Thurston recorded plats and surveys ↗28,929 unique record IDs in 32 uncapped date windows; live catalog 28,930
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
“STRATFORD PLACE” has 2 county records with a year built from 1954–1959, median 1956.5; sampled residential lots have a 0.35-acre median (2 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.
The sampled county records include ESKRIDGE BLVD SE, BOUNDARY ST SE in Olympia. These are sampled records, not a mapped neighborhood boundary.
Questions to take to a showing
- What year does the assessor record for this house, and which additions or major replacements have permits?
Compare another local name
Carlyon F. W. Sunset Addition is another plat records in the broader South Olympia · Carlyon & Wildwood browsing guide.
County parcel records identify Carlyon F. W. Sunset Addition around BLASS AVE SE, MARINGO RD SE, SE SUNSET WAY. Related record names and divisions remain separate until their original maps and governing documents establish the relationship.
Read the Carlyon F. W. Sunset Addition profile →Keep researching this address
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The place profile is a starting point. Confirm the recorded parcel, permits, utility connections, title exceptions and current association documents before relying on a neighborhood-wide description.
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