It is a three-story structure with gables at roofline and a tower. It is elaborately trimmed with Tudor style decorations, columns, and balconies. Over the entrance is a sign reading The Olympia. In the foreground of the image is a wide walkway and an uncut field, the city commons that later became Sylvester Park. Also in the foreground is a utility pole. The street in front of the hotel, Main Street (now Capitol Way) is unpaved. A trolley car drawn by two horses is on the street just to the south of the hotel. A trolley operator stands to the side of the trolley. To the left of the hotel is a residence, the George Foster home. To its right, a slope leads down to the Deschutes River estuary. The Olympia Hotel burned in 1904.
