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1001 N I ST, TACOMA
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- 19 images. Wm. R. Rust / "Rust Mansion" Ambrose J. Russell / Russell & Babcock, arch. Charles Miller, contr. -Wilkeson sandstone -green, glazed terra cotta tile roof -18 rooms, 4 baths, 8 fireplaces -"French Empire" interior -b4017,5-12 -modeled after the John A. McCall Mansion, "Shadow Lawn" of Monmouth County, New Jersey (built in 1903, destroyed by fire in 1927) -added to Tacoma Register by Resolution No.24215, 12/28/1976 -added to National Register 8/23/1985
- TDL 6/18/1905 p.20 Handsome residence to be built
- TDL 8/6/1905 p.21 (plans completed)
- TDL 8/15/1905 p.7 W.R. Rust to build $50,000 residence
- TDL 8/20/1905 p.17 (Miller & Biehn, contr. for foundation)
- TDL 9/24/1905 p.21 (Charles Miller, contr. for roof and stone work)
- TDL 11/5/1905 p.19 (plumbing by W.B. Coffee - largest plumbing contract ever in Tacoma)
- TDL 11/26/1905 p.19 (il under construction)
- TDL 12/10/1905 p.20 (progress)
- TDL 12/17/1905 p.20 W.R. Rust's home warmed scientifically (Tacoma Plumbing & Heating, contr.)
- TDL 1/7/1906 p.16 (Charles Miller, contr. for interior finishing, Electric Supply Co., contr. for wiring)
- TDL 3/25/1906 p.14 W.R, Rust's 40-horsepower Packard (il) TDN 5/12/1906 p.24 (il under construction)
- TDL 5/13/1906 p.19 (Lindstrom & Berg, contr. for wood carving) p.23 (il)
- TDL 12/2/1906 p.19 (Rust buys four adjoining lots) TDN 7/25/1908 p.1 (interior il of den) TDN 3/6/1909 p.1 $15,000 gift in the women buy: Mr. and Mrs. Rust offer to donate furnishings (club woman consider purchase of mansion)
- TNT 10/24/1965 Tacoma's mansions preserve moods and times (il)
- TNT 11/26/1972 House that Rust built (il)
- TNT 10/7/1979 Peek at Tacoma's past (il)
- TNT 2/7/1982 Rust Mansion (il) Senior Scene Nov. 2000 p.6 A brief history of the Rust Mansion (il) 720 ST711S Stone : ten thousand years ago and now / pen drawings and historical data by Muriel Cambern (il) 720.979 W693F 917.97 D49 Mar. 1908 p.25 (il) 917.97 W52 1907 p.6 (il) 917.972 T11Co p.20 (color il) 917.972 T119L
- TDL Annuals (il in each issue) 917.972 T119N Tacoma New Herald 1908 p.43 (il) 917.9778 Ar75A (il) 917.9778 C498C (il) 917.9778 V679V (il) 979.7 B868B p.157 979.72 H91 Vol.II p.15,opp. 260 (il) 979.72 T11R Tacoma; the rising center of commerce and manufacture. Delisle & Milliken publishers (il) 979.778 H628H Vol.II p.48 (il) 979.778 K524K Vol.II 979.778 K524KE p.74 (il) 979.778 M4517T p.76,77,106 (il) 979.778 T119TA p.16 (il) 979.7788 AL566T p.98-101 (il) 979.7788 K355T p.60 (il) 979.7788 ST769H p.73 ----- Geo. Milton Savage
- TDL 10/16/1910 p.36 Sold to Geo. Milton Savage and W.R. Nichols (il) ----- Dr. J.F. Bailey
- TDL 12/28/1913 p.19 Bailey home is sold for $75,000 (Bailey to sell house to Elmer S. Shank of Portland)
- TDL 7/12/1914 p.24 Gets Rust home (A.E. Grafton takes house from Bailey in court action/foreclosure) ----- A.E. Grafton -Grafton was in the real estate business and never occupied the house -other individuals reported to be occupants or owners of the house during the 1913-1917 time period include: Mrs. Berth M. Keady, M.H. Davis, Jeannette Hibbs TNL 10/1/1916 p.24 Union Club may purchase... T.Tribune 10/8/1916 p.35 Union Club may take new home ----- Orville & Minnie Billings T.Tribune 11/12/1916 p.20 Palatial North End residence sold (Billings purchases house from A.E. Grafton) (il) TNL 12/31/1916 p.27 (interior il of ball room) TNL 2/25/1917 p.27 Billings makes I Street purchase; will remove buildings and landscape property opposite home TNL 5/13/1917 p.29 (account of party) TNL 3/24/1918 p.D3 (account of party)
- TDL 6/9/1918 p.B5 (alterations)
- TDL 4/23/1919 p.1 Orville Billings dies by his own hand ----- Billings Apts. City Directory (1919-1921) ----- James E. Bell / Bell Mansion Apts.
- TDL 10/16/1921 p.B5 Former Rust home sold for $25,000 (Bell purchases house from Minnie E. Billings) (il)
- TDL 9/11/1927 p.B2 (ad for Radford Drama School) City Directory (1922-1927) ----- Samuel Krueger / Krueger Studio Apts.
- TDL 12/24/1931 p.1 Holders of Rust "Fort" defy court (Krueger Family attempts to keep mortgage company out of house)
- TNT 12/24/1931 p.6 For home and fireside; Tacoma family turns home into fort (il)
- TNT 12/25/1931 All's quiet on "I" St. front
- TDL 12/26/1931 p.1 Showdown today at ex-Rust home
- TNT 12/26/1931 Battle of "I" St. called off for weekend
- TDL 12/27/1931 p.A1 She holds property at old Rust home (interior il)
- TDL 1/6/1932 p.2 "Fort Rust" case in court today (hard copy only)
- TDL 1/7/1932 p.12 Fort Rust battle to continue today in superior court City Directory (1929-1934) ----- apts.
- TNT 10/1/1939 p.A9 Award of merit (civic award for improvements)
- TNT 12/17/1939 p.A10 (National Bondholders Corp. of New York sells house to unnamed party)
- TNT 9/27/1957 p.B3 Stanley Kolitzoff dies at home
- TNT 5/6/1966 p.1 Dr. Shelmidine dies at home unexpectedly City Directory (1935-1972) ----- Ten O One North I Street Apts. City Directory (1973-1984) ----- Edgar & Claudia Rombaur
- TNT 4/15/1983 p.A3 Pair plans mansion restoration (il) ----- Ashley Burks South Sound Business Magazine 5/2022 p.12 Historical Rust Mansion bought by reals estate investor (ext int il) South Sound Magazine May/June 2022 p.37 A Walk Through Time (ext int ils)
- TNT 12/13/2022 p.1 Tacoma's first Rust Mansion renovation nears completion (ext int ils) South Sound Magazine Jan/Feb 2023 p.23 A class of its own; Tacoma's historic Rust mansion hits the market (ext and int ils)
- Year Built: 1905
- Decade Built: 1900s
- On City National Historic Register
- Style: Colonial / Classic Revival
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Abbreviation Key GTWY - Peninsula Gateway, TDL - Tacoma Daily Ledger, TDN - Tacoma Daily News, TNL - Tacoma News Ledger, TNT - Tacoma News Tribune
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