Past Times And Family
The Polson Museum of Hoquiam City is a testament to the zeal and fondness of its people for whatever has legacy and remembrance of the ancestry of the proud town in Washington. It was originally the loving home of the Polson's who lived in the mansion until 1965 when the family transferred to Seattle. In 1976 Mrs. Polson donated her mansion to the City, which converted it to a museum ever since.
The owner or the beautiful mansion was the late Arnold Polson, who got all of the six thousand five hundred square foot property as a very generous wedding gift from his bachelor uncle Robert Polson. The opulent home was erected in 1924 and was only eclipsed in magnificence by Arnold's childhood home that once in the past stood right beside his own house.
When the Polson mansion was donated to the city it took all of thirty three years of hard work and fundraising to complete the refurbishment and reconstruction needed to bring back the wonderful house to its original opulence. To give visitors a sense of how magnificent it was when it was a private home, pictures of circa 1941 scenes depicting each of the mansions rooms with all its stately decor and furnishings are displayed in each of the very same rooms are displayed.
The Polson museum also houses thousand of pictures and documents that record everyday life in the city and Grays Harbor in all different eras and periods. These priceless photographs give visitors a sense of time travel to the vivid past, inadvertently sharing the lives and atmosphere of what was once the city and harbor life with its people seemingly living on in infinite stillness.
The rooms of the mansion house a massive display of history and culture and seventeen rooms are dedicated to showing the varied collections to locals and tourist alike. The stairway gallery and the different rooms all have special and unique themes that make an effort in presenting their past and the Polson's sense of family and community alive and available to those who wish to partake from its memories. The dollhouse of the Polson's daughter's are a great attraction to children as well as the Little Railroad, which is a favorite for young and old alike.
An extensive China ware display can also be seen, as well as Native American artifacts that are exhibited in the Polson's dining room. A circa 1920's kitchen, remodeled is also on display.
Another interesting addition to the Polson museum is the Rail Road Camp building that is being constructed and designed to reflect and mirror the beauty, substance and functional qualities of a hundred year old locomotive shed found a few miles north of the town, Rail Road Camp, to be found in the northeast corner of the Polson Museum property, it stands 80 by 40 feet. The cost of the building is $750,000 and is intended to be the home for the Polson Museums very wide ranging heavy-machinery collection.
Hoquiam and Grays Harbor's railroad history and logging heritage will be well represented in the Railroad Camp in Polson's museum, especially when the 65-ton Tacoma Steam Donkey is well placed on its flatcar with its own speed track. This particular display will focus on the historic trading in lumber and its wide use of the railroad to bring forth progress to the people that call the land where the Polson's Museum call its home.
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