Entries by Site Manager

Walla Walla Watershed Strategy Open House November 16 from 4:30 – 8 PM

In the Walla Walla River Basin, there is not always enough water available to meet every need, including Tribes, agriculture, drinking water, and supporting aquatic ecosystems. The Walla Walla 2050 Watershed Strategy is a collaborative effort to meet the Basin’s growing water needs and provide water for healthy rivers, fish, farms, and people. You’re invited […]

Fall 2021 Bicycle Friendly Community Survey

Residents of Walla Walla  recently applied for the Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) award from the League of American Bicyclists. The League would like to hear from residents, local area bicyclists, and bike advocates about your experiences and perceptions of bicycling in the community. Your input will help the League and the applicant community to better understand current bicycling […]

Now Available to Order: Walla Walla 2020 and Beyond: Today’s Vision for Tomorrow’s Community

On an early spring day in 1988, a group of people met to talk about the future of Walla Walla. Our immediate objective was to produce a preliminary vision of our community in the year 2020 and a rudimentary plan for getting there. Our vision had four major elements. We wanted a green community that […]

River Restoration Film Festival March 7, 2019 at 7pm at the Gesa Power House Theater

The Walla Walla, Touchet and Tucannon basins are home to iconic salmon and steelhead runs in the mid-Columbia River. These basins are currently undergoing large-scale river restoration efforts that impact our community and lifestyle. Please join us for a showing of the River Restoration Northwest 2018 short film series “Stories of Our Watersheds”. The evening […]

Help shape the future: Isaacs project open house

There will be an Open House at 4:00 today (Tuesday, April 14) at Green Park School, for information about and public comment on proposals for how to configure Isaacs Avenue from Rose to Ash, as part of as major transportation project. Walla Walla 2020 has from its inception promoted the idea that transportation is more […]

Find Walla Walla 2020 on Facebook

Walla Walla 2020 is currently on Facebook under the name Sustainable Walla Walla, which is a committee we organized in March 2008 that has now been taken more actively under 2020’s wing.

Walla Walla 2020 website treasure trove of historical sites

Walla Walla Union Bulletin : By Annie Charnley Eveland : As of Saturday, January 31, 2015 As temperatures hover near some semblance of warmth and the weather hints at improving, consider checking out the historic homes and buildings in this area by bike, on foot or on four wheels. You may live in one of these […]

Mill Creek Visioning at Council Work Sessio​n

On Monday, December 8, a landscape architecture class from WSU will present graphic art images of Mill Creek west of Ninth at the city council worksession.  The meeting is at City Hall (Third at Rose) at 4:00 p,m. The public is welcome.

History of 50 Brookside Drive, Walla Walla, WA

Legal Description: Parcel A: Beginning at a point which is ascertained by beginning at the point of intersection of the Northerly line of Boyer Avenue with the Westerly line of Clinton Street in City of Walla Walla, Washington; thence Northerly and along said Westerly line of Clinton Street, 120 feet; thence Westerly, parallel to said […]

2003 Awards Granted — Grand Prize Winner: Marcus Whitman Hotel and Conference Center, Six Other Major Awards Granted

The Grand Prize in this year’s Walla Walla 2020 Architectural Awards competition went to the Marcus Whitman Hotel and Conference Center, for the “loving and successful restoration and renovation of the historic 1928 hotel, and the addition of a compatible new conference center in downtown Walla Walla.”  Six other major awards were made, eleven projects […]

2000 Awards Granted — Grand Prize Winner: Whitehouse-Crawford, Ten Other Projects Win Awards

The Grand Prize in the year 2000 Walla Walla 2020 Architectural Awards competition went to Salvation! LLC, owner of the Whitehouse-Crawford Building at 3rd and Cherry in downtown Walla Walla, for the rescue, restoration, renovation and reuse of the historic 1904 planning mill for use as a gourmet restaurant and winery. Three other major awards […]

1999 Awards Granted — Grand Prize Winner: Hunter Conservatory, Whitman Colleges and 7 Other Major Projects

The Grand Prize in the year 1999 Walla Walla 2020 Architectural Awards competition went to Hunter Conservatory at Whitman College, for the renovation and restoration of the historic 1910 music building at Park and Boyer Avenue for use as a media center. Awards were made and six projects were honored with certificates of merit in […]

Walla Walla Architectual Award Winners: 1988-1998

The following projects have received Walla Walla 2020 Architectural Awards in past years. The 1988-1995 awards were made the following year for projects completed in those years. The 1997 awards, labeled 1996-97, were for projects completed from 1996 through the March, 1997 awards ceremony. The 1998 awards were presented in March, 1998. Please note that […]

History of 124 West Fourth Street, Waitsburg, WA

Title and Occupant History: September 30, 1871–Bruce’s Addition to the Town of Waitsburg was platted by William P. and Caroline Bruce, husband and wife, in the West one-half of the S.W. quarter of Section II. Township 9 N . Range 37 East of the Willamette Meridian, in Walla Walla County, Washington Territory. Waitsburg stands on […]

History of 660 Balm Street, Walla Walla, WA

Legal Description: lot 12 in Block 4 of Bryant’s Addition to the City of Walla Walla.  Title and Occupant History: September 15, 1880– John and Viretta Bryant, husband and wife, platted Bryant’s Addition to the City of Walla Walla. (Walla Walla County Auditor’s Office, Volume A of plats, page 75) September 22, 1883–Viretta Bryant released […]

History of 328 West Main Street, Walla Walla, WA

Legal Description. (abbreviated): Westerly 50 feet of lot 6 in Block 5 original City of Walla Walla plat. Title and Occupant History: January 20. 1870–the City of Walla Walla sold lot 6 in Block 5 to Edward Sheil for $100. (Deed Book G, page 34; hereinafter F/34) Edward Sheil was a physician and surgeon who […]

History of 121 East Main Street, Walla Walla, WA

Legal Description: Begin at a point in the northwesterly line of Main St.. which point is a distance of 75 feet measured along said northwesterly line of Main St. from it point of intersection with the southwesterly line of Spokane 51.; thence S. 37 degrees 7 minutes W., along said northwesterly line of Main St., […]

History of 28 East Main Street, Walla Walla, WA

Legal Description (approximate): rectangle: 31 feet along Main St. by 120 feet along First St., the east part of lot I, Block 13 of the original plat of the City of Walla Walla. Title and Occupant History: November 22, 1862–William H. and Elizabeth A. Patten sold the east part (23 feet by 120 feet) of […]

History of 363 South Fourth Avenue, Walla Walla, WA

Legal Description (abbreviated): Southerly 47.25 feet of lot 5 in the Stahl and Cambern Addition. (Walla Walla County Auditor, plat book C, page 8)  Title and Occupant History: August 30, 1865–John and Margaret Sparks sold land including the property to Henrietta and J. W. Hunter for $1500. (Deed Book 77, page 100; hereinafter 77/100) November […]

History of 121 West Fifth Street, Waitsburg, WA

Legal Description: Lots 7 and 8 in Block 3 of Bruce’s Addition to the Town of Waitsburg, Book A of Plats, page 31 in office of the Auditor of Walla Walla County. Washington.  Title and Occupant History: September 30, 1871–the Addition of W. R Bruce to the Town of Waitsburg was platted by William P. […]

History of 835 Whitman Street, Walla Walla, WA

Legal Description: Lot 12 and the East 10 feet of Lot 11 in Block 10 of Reed’s Addition to the City of Walla Walla. Title and Occupant History: November 2, 1878– Isaac and Cynthia J. Reed platted Reed’s Addition to the City of Walla Walla (Walla Walla County Auditor’s Office, plat page A 56) and […]

History of 315 North Third Street, Walla Walla, WA

Legal Description: supplied by owner N. 60′ of lots I & 2, Block 52 Shauble’s Addition to the City of Walla Walla Title and Occupant History: March 18. 1870–Philip Shauble sold all of Block 52 in Shauble’s Addition to Edward Sheil. (Deed Book 98. Page 83. hereinafter 98/83) November 22. 1875–Edward Sheil sold lots I. […]

History of 10 North Madison Street, Walla Walla, WA

Title and Occupant History: January 20, 1864–William& Elizabeth Patten sold 80 acres in Section 21, Township 7 N., Range 36 E.W.M., including the property, to H. P. Isaacs for $2000. (Deed Book liD,” Page 146, hereinafter 0/146, see also E/95) Henry P. Isaacs started several flour mills in eastern Washington, Idaho, and Oregon (1858 in […]

History of 115 Locust Street, Walla Walla, WA

Legal Description: furnished by owners Lot 2 in Block F of Foster’s Addition plus 60′ x 30′ of Lot 1 Title and Occupant History: December 19, 1890–John& Jane Singleton sold Lots 1, 2, & 3 in Block I of Singleton’s 2nd Addition to the City of Walla Walla, 3 1/2 acres containing the property, to […]

History of 347 South Fourth Avenue, Walla Walla, WA

Legal Description: provided by owner: S. 49′ of Lot 2 and N. 14′ of Lot 3, Stahl and Cambern Addition.  Title and Occupant History: August 30, 1865–John& Margaret Sparks sold land, including the property, for $1500 to Henrietta & J. W. Hunter. (Deed Book 77, Page 100) March 21, 1871–J. W.& Henrietta E. Hunter sold […]

History of 705 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, WA

Legal Description: supplied by owner. Short version: Lot 13 plus the Easterly 34.75 feet of lot 12 in block 3 of Isaacs 3rd Addition to the City of Walla Walla, Washington. Title and Occupant History: Isaacs 3rd Addition to the City of Walla Walla was plated by Henry P. Isaacs in April, 1900. Henry P. […]

History of 362 South Third Street, Walla Walla, WA

Title and Occupant History: Catharine Stahl owned the entire block of 300 South Third Street from the 1870s. December 15, 1896–Catharine Stahl sold the lot of 362 South Third to John Roberts for $800 December 16, 1899– John Roberts sold to William Dunphy for $900. William Dunphy lived at 356 South Third. March 15, 1900–William […]

History of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (formerly Emmaus Evangelical Lutheran Church)

  Fiftieth Anniversary of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation – May 3, 1959 NOTE: The following text is taken from the program given to congregation members on May 3, 1959, the fiftieth anniversary ceremony for Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (formerly Emmaus Evangelical Lutheran Church)   Pastors: Rev. Roland A. Langbecker – Present Pastor Rev. Elmer E. Streufert – […]