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- 10 images. Northwestern Warehouse Co. / Tacoma Municipal Dock Northern Pacific Railroad, builder -one of three grain warehouses built at the same time as known as "the wheat warehouses" (SEE ALSO: 705 DOCK ST., 825 DOCK ST.) -first occupied by the Northwestern Warehouse Co. (part of the Geo. W. McNear Co. of San Francisco), later occupied by the Alaska-Pacific Co. -converted into the Tacoma Municipal Dock, which served the "Mosquito Fleet", in 1910 -fire wall added to building in 1929 -by the late 1930s most of the "Mosquito Fleet" activity at the dock had ended. The Municipal Dock Dept. was discontinued as a separate city dept. at the end of 1943.
- TDL 4/24/1900 p.3 Will erect wheat warehouses at once
- TDL 5/27/1900 p.20,21 (il under construction)
- TDL 6/24/1900 p.5 Work is rushed day and night
- TDL 7/1/1900 p.3 Are building a stone seawall
- TDL 8/4/1900 p.5 Flames close to new warehouses
- TDL 8/8/1900 p.4 Inspecting the new warehouses (visit of the Northern >Pacific Railroad president)
- TDL 8/9/1900 p.6 New fire chutes aid the firemen
- TDL 8/10/1900 p.3 New sheds will be safe from fire
- TDL 11/14/1900 p.3 New warehouses ready for grain ----- Tacoma Municipal Dock
- TDL 9/4/1910 p.11 Bad dock helps drive off trade
- TDL 10/9/1910 p.6 Committee give details of proposed project
- TDL 12/4/1910 p.11 No dock plans are submitted TDN 12/14/1910 City's new dock will boost traffic
- TDL 2/12/1911 p.36 Use municipal dock this week
- TDL 2/26/1911 Open new dock Tuesday night T. Tribune 2/28/1911 City wharf will be dedicated
- TDL 7/9/1911 p.34 Proposes novelties for Municipal Dock
- TDL 8/13/1911 p.4 Storage wanted at dock
- TDL 9/11/1911 p.2 Plans provide 5-story dock
- TDL 1/9/1912 Suppl. p.18 Work to be started soon ... (proposed new dock, never built)
- TDL 7/12/1912 p.10 Municipal dock extension planned ... (il)
- TDL 2/19/1913 (il)
- TDL 4/27/1913 p.41 Left waiting at the boat common happening at the Municipal Dock
- TDL 5/4/1913 p.13 (il)
- TDL 11/16/1913 p.50 Tacoma's municipal electric rat trap proving successful invention
- TDL 11/30/1913 p.21 City of Tacoma developing its own rail and water terminals
- TDL 5/3/1914 p.11 Municipal Dock a success American City Magazine, Dec. 1916 (il) TDN 2/19/1917 p.5 Young girls running away; tots who've "lost their tickets"; know "little lady in Deaconess cap" TNL 6/3/1917 p.11 Atkins champions Municipal Wharf TNL 12/16/1917 p.19 Municipal Dock hospital opens
- TDL 6/6/1920 p.B7 Many visitors at new Seamen's Institute home
- TDL 8/4/1920 p.1 Tells history of City dock
- TDL 3/12/1922 p.E10 Sailors of seven seas find welcome here (interior il of Tacoma Seamen's Institute)
- TDL 5/15/1924 p.1 Municipal Dock will be closed; Sound steamers to load at adjoining pier pending repairs
- TDL 6/21/1924 p.1 Municipal Dock again being used
- TDL 1/28/1928 p.1 Municipal Dock is called menace to 11th Street Bridge
- TDL 2/5/1928 p.A4 Seamen's Institute serves thousands (interior il)
- TDL 3/14/1928 p.1 Tacoma bond issues carry
- TDL 1/5/1929 p.1 New Municipal Dock is nearer
- TDL 7/2/1929 p.14 Bids run high ...
- TDL 8/1/1929 p.11 Municipal Dock will cost $90,000
- TDL 9/15/1929 p.D9 First concrete piling placed in dock here (il)
- TDL 10/6/1929 p.D10 Fire wall is built of Tacoma product (il)
- TDL 12/22/1929 p.D7 Rebuilding of dock finished (W.F. Way, engineer; M.J. Uhrich, supt. of construction; Geo. Behler, foreman; Henry & McFee, contr.) ("first cement cantilever in the Northwest") T.Times 11/8/1930 p.1 Oil can rhapsody directs boats to Municipal Dock (il)
- TDL 6/25/1931 p.10 Start working on second unit T.Times 5/14/1932 City to study dock expense
- TDL 5/17/1932 p.4 City may lease Municipal Dock
- TDL 5/26/1932 p.2 ... lease Municipal Dock (to Paul Gilday)
- TDL 5/28/1932 p.1 Fawcett balks on Municipal Dock proposal
- TDL 6/2/1932 p.1 Court may halt Dock lease
- TDL 6/3/1932 p.1 Voters many get Dock issue
- TDL 6/5/1932 p.A1 Salaries big item in city dock costs
- TDL 11/6/1932 p.A7 Profit shown by city dock
- TDL 5/27/1937 Despite deficit, Municipal Dock looks like fine plum T.Times 10/22/1937 After many years T.Times 11/11/1940 Soundings T.Times 11/5/1942 Construction is under way on rodent control laboratory
- TNT 8/21/1955 Along Tacoma's waterfront
- TNT 11/13/1977 ... awaits new career (il)
- TNT 8/26/1987 Preservation costs delay council vote on terminal (il)
- TNT 10/28/1987 Municipal Dock to be shored up for now
- TNT 2/26/1989 p.D5 "Mosquito Fleet" trips could turn into steamboat races (il)
- TNT 3/23/1991 p.B1 Collector scuttles museum for hydros
- TNT 4/25/1991 p.E1 Municipal Dock gets new direction with a push from a big fan Chamber Update, May 1991 p.4 History and future in one location (floor plan)
- TNT 5/3/1991 p.B1 Carousel collectors eye Tacoma site
- TNT 7/31/1991 p.B1 City stretches for brass ring on collection of carousels
- TNT 3/18/1992 p.F1 Piering into the future (history of bldg.,il)
- TNT 1/28/1993 City to spend $10 million to buy marina, fix buildings
- TNT 9/9/1993 p.F1 Dutch treat; artist Paul Panhuysen converts Tacoma building into world's largest musical instrument (interior il)
- TNT 9/13/1993 p.D5 Building, crowd resonate to Tacoma strings show
- TNT 3/18/1998 p.B1 Market proposed for old warehouse (il)
- TNT 3/26/1998 p.B5 Study of possible Municipal Dock market authorized T.Daily Index 4/9/1998 p.1 Tacoma set for its own public market place (il)
- TNT 4/13/1998 p.A1 The soaring cost of indecision; Tacoma may spend $8.5 million on Municipal Dock Building, after ignoring many cheaper fixes
- TNT 6/27/1998 p.B2 Market at Municipal Dock woul need much city money, study says
- TNT 10/19/1998 p.A1 Warehouse of possibilities; the case for a market
- TNT 7/25/2000 p.B1 Restore no; resurrect yes; $10 million plan would rebuild Tacoma's Municipal Dock
- TNT 7/27/2000 p.B1 Ticktock, decision time for dock Business Examiner 8/7/2000 p.17 Ideas abound for Municipal Dock T.Weekly 8/25/2000 p.1 City faces decision about Municipal Dock Building (il)
- TNT 3/20/2001 p.B1 Dock building must come down; deteriorating condition after quake leads officials to vote for removal (il)
- TNT 3/21/2001 p.B6 Old Municipal Dock was hung out to die (editorial) (il)
- TNT 3/27/2001 p.B1 Epitaph for a dock: 'Twas neglect that done 'er in
- TNT 9/25/2001 p.B1 Waterfront museum's approach on the beam
- TNT 12/18/2001 p.D1 Tacoma's 101-year- old Municipal Dock finally coming down T.Weekly 3/8/2002 p.A1 Municipal Dock bites the dust (il of demolition)
- TNT 3/16/2002 p.D1 Not all of Municipal Dock has been consigned to past; sturdy wood, other pieces are being stored for future use (il)
- TNT 7/20/2004 p.B1 Voting against charter change might help save Muni Dock site T.Daily Index 6/15/2006 p.1 Plans for downtown parking include Foss waterfront
- TNT 5/27/2010 p.A1 "Green" building aims for platinum standard (wood from the Municipal Dock building used in the lobby of the new Center for Urban Waters at 326 East D St.) 071 F779F 5/20/1911 Municipal Dock greater success than predicted 352 T117T 4/20/1912 (il) 387 T379St p.4 (il) 387.1 P83H 1923 p.86 (il) 917.97 W52W 1901 p.31,34 (il); 1902 p.11 (il); 1907 p.4 (il); 1912 p.38 (il); 1913 p.37 (il) 917.9778 Ar75A (il) 917.9778 V679V (il) 979.72 H91 Vol.II p.238 979.7788 G135T p.37-40,44 (il)
- Year Built: 1900
- Decade Built: 1900s
- Demolished: 2002
- Style: warehouse