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1017-21 A ST, TACOMA

• 16 images. Tacoma Bldg. Potter & Merrill, arch. Hurley-Mason Co., contr. -twelve stories, 194 ft. -first occupied by the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Tacoma Commercial Club -adjoining Weyerhaeuser Annex/ Weyerhaeuser Bldg. built in 1956 (SEE: 1015 A ST.) -remodeled in 1979 -partial plans at TPL
• TDL 7/12/1908 p.22 (mention)
• TDL 4/18/1909 p.37 Site ready for office building
• TDL 9/5/1909 p.36 Secure designs by competition
• TDL 9/19/1909 p.43 Enthusiasm for building project
• TDL 10/3/1909 p.43 Seven firms submit plans
• TDL 10/12/1909 p.4 Select plans for building (sketch)
• TDL 10/31/1909 p.40 Preparing plans for skyscraper
• TDL 1/2/1910 p.38 (progress)
• TDL 2/27/1910 p.37 Weather keeps building back
• TDL 3/6/1910 p.39 (il)
• TDL 3/20/1910 p.40 (progress) p.43 Big hole goes down 40 feet
• TDL 3/27/1910 p.38 Making bids on A Street pile
• TDL 6/26/1910 p.38 Ready to start another skyscraper
• TDL 6/29/1910 p.39 (progress)
• TDL 7/24/1910 p.39 (progress)
• TDL 8/7/1910 p.37 (progress)
• TDL 10/9/1910 p.40 One story a week
• TDL 11/13/1910 p.44 (name selected)
• TDL 12/25/1910 p.33 (il under construction)
• TDL 1/1/1911 p.29 (il)
• TDL 4/9/1911 p.37 (progress)
• TDL 5/14/1911 p.37 That "V" in "Tacoma Bvilding" is a "U" (il)
• TDL 7/2/1911 p.25 (ad for rental space in bldg.) (il)
• TDL 1/9/1912 Suppl. p.4 Nearly ready (description of interior floors)
• TDL 4/14/1912 p.31 (full page ad, bldg. directory)
• TDL 5/5/1912 p.22-25 Tacoma Commercial Club's magnificent new home (il)
• TDL 6/9/1912 p.29 Inoculating new Great Northern chief with Tacoma Tigeritis (interior il)
• TDL 11/24/1912 p.36 (il of ballroom)
• TDL 2/9/1913 (il)
• TDL 11/30/1913 p.21 Bluff to be parked
• TDL 1/18/1914 p.33 Tacoma's toy park planted on advice of the Ledger's horticultural expert (il) p.43 ... Amen corner of the Commercial Club (il)
• TDL 1/25/1914 Anniversary Edition p.9 (il)
• TDL 4/1/1917 p.37 Red Cross here regular factory (interior il) TNL 12/30/1917 p.8 Falls down elevator shaft to his death
• TDL 12/23/1923 p.E5 C. of C. to have entire 9th floor
• TDL 1/27/1924 p.A1 Chamber launched on era of progress at "house warming"
• TDL 8/3/1924 p.G7 (mention of the Tacoma Indoor Golf Course & School in the bldg.)
• TDL 4/8/1925 p.10 (ad,il)
• TDL 5/3/1925 p.A11 Display rooms of exhibit are almost ready
• TDL 10/11/1925 p.A9 Chamber body in new home (Chamber of Commerce moves from 9th floor to ground floor,interior il)
• TDL 1/16/1927 p.E8 (State Savings & Loan Assoc. erects large flashing electrical sign on bldg.)
• TDL 4/12/1927 Rotogravure Sec. p.6 (il)
• TDL 4/20/1930 p.D1 (ad,il)
• TDL 5/4/1930 p.D8 (10th floor to be remodeled)
• TDL 12/7/1930 p.D8 $100,000 spent on Tacoma Building (il)
• TDL 12/8/1930 p.8 (ad,il)
• TDL 2/9/1932 Gravure Sec. p.2 (il)
• TDL 7/12/1936 p.B6 S & L Assn. offices are modernized (State Savings & Loan Assoc.)
• TNT 8/20/1947 p.11 Humans watch bird maternity ward or roof
• TNT 11/9/1949 p.A1 Modernizing Tac. Bldg. (remodeling by Lea, Pearson & Richards, arch and Macdonald Building Co., contr.)
• TNT 3/2/1952 p.A16 Air raid shelters ...
• TNT 7/12/1957 p.3 Old Tacoma Building to be rehabilitated
• TNT 4/17/1958 p.A1 Tacoma Bldg. fire battled
• TNT 10/28/1962 p.A8 ...approved for fallout shelters
• TNT 12/1/1962 p.1 Hungry sea gull goofs, loses stolen lunch
• TNT 1/6/1963 p.A10 Dedication set here for first stocked shelter ("first stocked public fallout shelter in the state"
• TNT 1/8/1963 p.14 Weyerhaeuser building new CD shelter (il)
• TNT 1/19/1964 p.B9 Ben Cheney (Cheney Lumber Co.) found use for sawmill waste; he founded far-flung business empire (il of wooden bas-relief mural by artist Art McKellips)
• TNT 9/12/1965 p.D19 Weyerhaeuser plans remodeling at headquarters
• TNT 5/22/1966 p.C19 Wood sets off new lobby (interior il of Weyerhaeuser lobby on 10th floor)
• TNT 2/19/1967 p.D17 Unit hoisted at Tacoma Building (il of air conditioning unit)
• TNT 12/18/1977 p.F11 Redesigned building will cut energy use (remodeling by Burr Associates, arch.) (il)
• TNT 7/16/1978 High hoist (il of cooling equipment being hoisted to roof)
• TNT 11/9/1978 Up, up, up and away went the "flying" carpet (il of carpet being hoisted into window)
• TNT 4/1/1979 Weyerhaeuser modernizes its old headquarters (remodeling by Donald Burr, arch.) (interior il)
• TNT 8/19/1979 A Street undergoes a transformation; Weyerhaeuser adds park, parking downtown 338.973 P83Pt 1918 p.22 (il);1919 p.68 (il); 1921 p.28 (il); 1924 p.58 (il) 720.28 T119TR p.53 (rehab c.1977 by Burr Associates, arch. and Hoffman Construction Co., contr.) 979.72 H91 Vol.II opp. p.168 (il), p.280 979.778 H628H Vol.I p.440 979.7788 G1351D p.61 (il) ----- Labor Ready
• TNT 7/29/1999 p.A1 Downtown Tacoma gains HQ; Labor Ready is buying Weyerhaeuser building T.Daily Index 8/3/1999 p.1 Labor Ready, Inc. plans its purchase of Weyerhaeuser's Tacoma Building for new HQ (il)
• TNT 12/21/1999 p.D6 Labor Ready getting ready (remodeling by Jim Castino / Pacific Design Group Tacoma, arch.) Business Examiner 12/11/2000 p.23 Labor Ready renovates, opens retail space (renovation/remodeling by Pacific Design Group, arch. and Rushforth Construction, contr.) (sketch)
• TNT 1/16/2001 p.B10 Downtown treasures reappearing Business Examiner 4/2/2001 p.1 Labor Ready moves into its new corporate headquarters
• TNT 11/14/2001 p.B1 Historic buildings receive tax breaks
• Year Built: 1910
• Decade Built: 1910s

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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