Now the town hall, this Craftsman-style stone and stick building was envisioned, designed, and built to see to the health, spiritual, and moral needs of recent European immigrants drawn to work in the mines. Rev. Thomas J. Gambrel and his wife were sent about 1919 by the Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society of the Puget Sound Conference and Board of Home Missions. They built the Community House in 1923, but by 1946 it was abandoned. The Town of Wilkeson then purchased the property.

The arch is a landmark at the western entry to town. Built by the Wilkeson Booster Club in 1925, the arch is constructed of two square sandstone columns rising 25 feet and topped with a flat wood lintel. On entering the town a sign on the arch reads, “Wilkeson Coal Mines—Wilkeson Sandstone—Gateway to Carbon Glacier,” on exiting the sign reads, “Tacoma 30 miles, Seattle 50 miles, Remember Wilkeson.”

The oldest Orthodox Church in Washington, this small frame Gothic vernacular building with the onion dome and Slavic iconography was built in 1900. The chandeliers and candelabra are from Czarist Russia. The original congregation was composed of immigrants from Czechoslovakia who were soon joined by Russians, other Slavs, Greeks and Arabs.  It is the oldest continually used temple in the Diocese of the West, encompassing Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California, Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming and Colorado.

A Serbian coal miner, John Pete, acquired this cabin and land in 1893.  The pre-1893 cabin was enlarged and altered in 1905 and again in 1913 to accommodate the growing workingman’s family. Pete later donated land for the Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church.

This two-story Neo-Classical Revival-designed sandstone school was built in 1912–13 and seems outsized for the community it serves. It was designed by Frederick Heath, George Grove and C.F.W Lundberg, of Tacoma. A major renovation occurred in 1980, and it remains in operation as an elementary school.

Thirty or so beehive-shaped structures arranged in pairs are the survivors of some 160 such ovens that supplied coke to foundries in Seattle and Portland. Tacoma Coal and Coke Company built the first ovens in 1885.  They were the sole supplier of coke along the coast. The ovens are a reminder of a forgotten industrial past.