The bomb shelter used for the Washington State Archives is in need of replacement. Following is an excerpt from an article posted January 29, 2019 at the NewsTribune website.
Secretary of State Kim Wyman offered a media tour of the State Archives building on Tuesday, but it wasn’t because she was proud of it.
Wyman is working to convince the state Legislature to fund a new building for the State Archives and State Library. On Tuesday, she led media through the underground storage areas and point out areas where flooding, leaky pipes, and other destructive events have occurred.
The Archives Building at 1129 Washington St. on the east Capitol Campus was constructed in 1962 as a records center that doubled as a bomb shelter. The facility does not meet modern environmental and atmospheric requirements for storing archival documents, according to Wyman’s office.
