Kirkman House exterior restoration project and interior scenes photographed on January 6th, 1980 by Bill Lilley.

Connecting Communities Valley Wide - a local transportation history by Susan Monahan and the Kirkman House Museum seen at the Walla Walla Fair, September 2018

Stagecoach

McKeen rail car

Streetcar

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House Museums

Kirkman House Museum, 214 N. Colville, has a new exhibit: "Windows to the Past, Placing the Kirkman Family in Context" with a unique guide book to use with this gigantic wall-size enlargement of an 1884 panorama.

Kirkman House Museum, 214 N. Colville. Photo by Joe Drazan, April 2009.

Carolyn Retzer, her house on Palouse Street, and the Kirkman House on Colville Street which she later owned as an apartment house. Thanks to Nora Bleth for sharing these photos from the estate of Carolyn Retzer.

Carolyn Retzer at 69 S. Palouse

69 S Palouse St

69 S Palouse Street

People in photo unknown. 1st Congregational Church on the right burned down in 1922.

KIrkman House was The Benge Apartments from 1923 to 1933, named after the Frank Benge family that founded the small village of Benge just north of Washtucna, Washington. Thanks to Susan Monahan of the Kirkman House Museum for contributing to this post.

 

Kirkman House exhibit of Walla Walla memorabilia. Here's a small sample of what was on display through May 26, 2013.

Kirkman houses & family members. Photos courtesy of Rick Tuttle and the Kirkman House Museum.

Kirkman House, 214 N. Colville. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin