Olympic Club Hotel

The Olympic Club Hotel, also known as McMenamins Olympic Club Hotel and Theater, is a historic hotel owned by McMenamins Pubs & Breweries in Centralia, Washington, United States. The hotel is adjacent to the Olympic Club and situated in the Centralia Downtown Historic District, both listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The hotel was not listed on the 1980 NRHP registry of the Olympic Club as it was, at the time, a separate building and business entity. The hotel was constructed in 1913 and originally known as the Hotel Crawford. The moniker was changed the following year to the Oxford Hotel, a business name that survived into the 2000s. The establishment has contained a tavern known as the New Tourist Bar since its beginnings. The Oxford may have been used partially as a brothel during its early years and Prohibition era. The capture of the "Gentleman Bandit", Roy Gardner, took place at the hotel in 1921. The hotel is also theorized to contain a bootlegger tunnel under its basement. A potential barrel storage area from the days of Prohibition was discovered under the club in 2001 but no tunnel has yet been found. The building was considered vacant by the early 1970s but was purchased, along with the Olympic Club, by the McMenamin brothers in 1996. The hotel building, renamed as the Olympic Club Hotel, was restored beginning in mid-2002 and reopened, includ

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