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- 8 images. Bowes Bldg. Edward J. Bowes, builder Heath & Twichell, arch. -white Vermont marble -rehab. c.1979-80 (Ron Lockwood, arch. and Olson Bros.,contr.) -added to National Register 11/23/1979 -added to Tacoma Register by Resolution No.26121, 12/11/1979 -site includes 100-10 So. 9th St., 902 A St. -occupants included: Pacific Bldg. & Loan Assoc., M. Schmidt & Son Merchant Tailors, Tacoma Savings & Loan Assoc., All About Travel, Pacific Rim Restaurant, Zeppo Italian Restaurant, Seven Cities Restaurant
- TDL 6/23/1908 p.5 Tacoma gets fine building
- TDL 6/28/1908 p.22 (mention)
- TDL 9/20/1908 p.42 Bowes-Irwin block is making progress
- TDL 10/11/1908 p.35 (progress) TDN 12/19/1908 p.13 Block will be ornament...(sketch)
- TDL 12/20/1908 p.39 (il, description)
- TDL 1/24/1909 p.36 Carpenters to get $4 a day
- TDL 1/31/1909 p.36 Bowes block now receiving roof
- TDL 4/25/1909 p.37 Marble being put on
- TDL 5/16/1909 p.43 Working on Bowes Block
- TDL 7/11/1909 p.36 Resume work on building
- TDL 9/5/1909 p.37 Tone strong in realty market p.38 Offices in demand
- TDL 10/10/1909 p.45 (il)
- TDL 10/24/1918 p.2 Charles Richardson buys Bowes Building
- TDL 11/3/1918 p.B7 Bowes Building sold
- TDL 3/9/1919 p.A5 (il of M. Schmidt & Son Merchant Tailors)
- TDL 5/23/1920 p.B5 Beautiful marble building is sold (purchased by Tacoma Savings & Loan) (il)
- TDL 6/26/1924 p.B1 Tacoma S & L has anniversary...home is remodeled
- TNT 5/4/1938
- TNT 6/4/1939 p.A9 Only the beginning (il of bldg. being steam cleaned)
- TNT 7/2/1939 p.A7 Financial institution celebrating fortieth anniversary...(il)
- TNT 4/30/1940 (il of building with new neon sign)
- TNT 4/30/1940 p.C14 (il)
- TNT 2/14/1941 p.B9 Loan headquarters (il of bldg. with new neon sign)
- TNT 4/22/1941 p.C14 Tacoma's oldest savings institution (il)
- TNT 12/22/1947 p.2 New offices open (interior il of Tacoma Savings & Loan after remodeling)
- TNT 6/27/1949 p.5 Started by pot of gold; handsome new home (interior il of Tacoma Savings Loan)
- TNT 11/28/1954 p.C15 Tacoma firm remodeling home office (Lea, Pearson & Richards, arch. and Ketner Bros., contr.)
- TNT 8/31/1958 p.A11 Savings firm makes sale of old site (bldg. purchased by the Fanning Starkey Co.)
- TNT 3/15/1988 p.B10 "Upscale" rehab set for classic building (il)
- TNT 1/8/1989 p.E5 "Jewel of Tacoma" was built to serve as real estate office (il c.1930) P.C. Buisness Examiner 11/6/1989 Tacoma's dazzling new Pacific Rim Restaurant debuts (il)
- TNT 2/9/1990 TGIF p.4 An irrepressible Edward J. Bowes left a major landmark on Tacoma
- TNT 7/24/1990 p.B1 Murals of a whale is a whale of a mural (il of mural by the artist Wyland)
- TNT 7/31/1990 p.A8 (il of mural)
- TNT 7/27/1995 p.B5 Pacific Rim was so nice, the owner's trying it twice
- TNT 6/28/1996 p.SL6 New chef helps get Pacific Rim on right track
- TNT 10/24/1997 p.SL7 (Seven Cities Restaurant to open 11/5/1997)
- TNT 11/5/1997 p.SL1 Artist or decorator? Critics dismiss his work as "decoration" but Wyland has parlayed popularity into a multimillion-dollar business (il)
- TNT 11/28/1997 p.SL32 Seven Cities is a little part of San Francisco, Dublin and London (full page ad) (il)
- TNT 8/12/1998 p.SL1,SL3 Comedy Underground nightclub will open in Tacoma
- TNT 11/4/2000 p.B2 Man arrested for throwing newspaper box through window T.Weekly 8/24/2006 p.D3 Developer has plans for new hot spot (Taboo Club) T.Daily Index 2/3/2009 p.1 Improvements planned for historic Bowes Building (David Boe, arch.) (sketch) T.Weekly 5/20/2010 p.C1 Know your public art (il of "Washington Orcas" by artist Robert Wyland)
- TNT 6/7/2013 p.GO5 Pack of nightclubs opening downtown (The 502 Downtown) T.Weekly 7/26/2013 p.B5 New kids on the block ... (interior il of 502 Martini Bar & Lounge / Grit City Comedy Club) 720.28 T119TR p.50 917.972 T11Co p.32 (il) 979.72 W27G (il) 979.7788 G1351D p.113 (il)
- Year Built: 1908
- Decade Built: 1900s
- On City State National Historic Register
- Style: Italian Renaissance c1600 A.D.