In my home town of Puyallup there is the Ezra Meeker Mansion that still stands in its regal elegance and demands your attention with its striking architecture inside and out.
Here is a brief history of Meeker Mansion courtesy of Ezra Meeker Historical Society
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This is a 17-room Italiante Vistorian Mansion. Ezra was 60 years old and the house was built for just the two of them. Mr. Meeker took his wife along on a hop-selling trip to England. She wqas presented to Queen Victoria and became smitten with some of the finer things in life. Ezra was quite content with his log- cabin life, but agreed that his wife could have such a house if she wanted ~ and could pay for ~ it. This is the house that Eliza Jane Meeker built and retained title to. The house was designed by Ferrell and Darmer, Architects of Tacoma. It took three years to build and was furnished by 1890. The Meekers lived there about 20 years, until Mrs. Meeker died in 1909. After Mrs. Meeker died Mr. Meeker left the house.
After the Meekers the home was used as a hospital in 1910-15, when in was sold to a Cival War Widows' organization- The Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. for use as a retirement home.
In 1948 the GAR sold the building, to the first of a series of doctors who ran a nursing home on the premises until 1970, when the building but not the land, was donated to the Meeker Historical Society, which immediately began restoration ~ a job which continues today.
Enjoy Meeker Mansion
Ezra Meeker in Infared
 As You walk in and you are greeted by a friendly face an a grand stair casee |
 To the right was a warm room with this lovely sofa and matching lamps. |
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 The Dinning Room |
 The Kitchen |
 Going upstairs |
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