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1102 TACOMA AVE S, TACOMA
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- 97 images. Carnegie Bldg., Tacoma Public Library Jardine, Kent & Jardine (New York), arch. Norton L. Taylor, supervising arch. Everett Babcock, assistant supervising arch. Michael C. Conly, contr. -funds donated by industrialist Andrew Carnegie -dedicated 6/4/1903 -opened 6/5/1903 -original glass dome on roof damaged in 1949 earthquake -bldg. used for storgage and meeting rooms after the new main library bldg. was built in 1952, reopened to general library use in 1978 -added to Tacoma Register by Resolution No.23183, 1/14/1975 -reopening celebration 6/2/1978 - 6/4/1978 -grand reopening after remodeling/restoration 4/28/1990 -formerly 1120 Tacoma Ave. So., 1118 Tacoma Ave. So.
- TDL 2/8/1901 p.1 Gift from Carnegie
- TDL 3/12/1901 p.5 Mr. Carnegie's gift increased
- TDL 3/13/1901 p.1 Library located
- TDL 3/22/1901 p.2 Library site yet undecided
- TDL 3/26/1901 p.5 Library may be built this spring
- TDL 3/29/1901 p.2 Council selects a library site
- TDL 5/18/1901 p.2 Library plans reach the city
- TDL 5/22/1901 p.5 Accept library plans
- TDL 5/24/1901 p.3 Six months to build library
- TDL 7/10/1901 p.8 Library plans sent by express
- TDL 8/6/1901 p.5 Nearly ready to build library
- TDL 9/5/1901 p.3 Changes in the library plans
- TDL 9/21/1901 p.3 Soon to begin work
- TDL 11/8/1901 p.5 Found flaws in the foundation (inspection by architects C.A. Darmer and A.J. Russell)
- TDL 11/9/1901 p.2 Conley explains change in plans
- TDL 11/11/1901 p.3 City will not pay
- TDL 12/19/1901 p.5 Taylor must make decision T.Evening News 1/12/1903 Palatial new home ... (il)
- TDL 8/31/1902 p.9 (floor plan and construction details)
- TDL 3/8/1903 p.17 Tacoma's new Carnegie Library building will be occupied in early April (il) T.Evening News 5/9/1903 To move next week (interior il)
- TDL 5/10/1903 (il under construction)
- TDL 5/17/1903 p.11 Library building is all ready
- TDL 6/5/1903 p.8 Tacoma's library is open today
- TDL 6/7/1903 p.5 After the work was all done (city officials names removed from marble plaque after public outcry) TDN 1/16/1905 Annual p.42 (description)
- TDL 01/28/1924 Tacoman drops dead while at public library
- TNT 10/29/1946 p.1 Badly out of date (interior il)
- TNT 2/4/1951 p.A4 Carnegie gift was start of library here
- TNT 4/7/1953 p.E10 City public library first on Puget Sound (interior il)
- TNT 5/24/1953 p.C14 New stage at old library (remodeling by Silas E. Nelsen, arch. and Dolph Jones Co., contr.) (interior il)
- TNT 11/16/1955 p.C18 To beautify library plot (Sea Cadet volunteers)
- TNT 4/11/1957 p.C12 Arbor Day gift (il of red Trilby Rhododendron plant donated by garden clubs)
- TNT 8/16/1967 p.D11 Library wing to cost more (proposal to demolish the Carnegie Bldg.)
- TNT 8/21/1968 Library addition cost reset at $1.28 million (proposal to demolish Carnegie Bldg.)
- TNT 3/1/1972 Carnegie Library building may qualify for preservation grant
- TNT 5/23/1973 p.A1,A2 Library's Northwest Room opens
- TNT 4/8/1976 p.D15 Building inspector hurt in library fall; paramedics treated Robert Wonn after skylight plunge
- TNT 4/9/1976 Library fall victim listed as critical
- TNT 5/21/1978 p.D1 Old Carnegie Library soon 75 years old (il, interior il)
- TNT 5/30/1978 Special Commemorative Edition
- TNT 5/31/1978 p.B3 Old library to reopen (il c.1907)
- TNT 4/23/1990 (suppl. for grand reopening)
- TNT 1/1/2000 p.B1 Nothing can stop couple's nuptials, not even Y2K (marriage moved to library due to conflict at County-City Bldg.)
- TNT 11/8/2001 p.B5 Thief takes 4 paintings from Tacoma library T.Weekly 9/18/2003 p.A6 100th anniversary ... first Carnegie Library in Washington
- TNT 9/25/2003 p.E1 We wanted college money, and we got Carnegie library (100th anniversary celebration) (il)
- TNT 9/26/2003 p.E1 Library lovers (interior il)
- TNT 6/29/2009 p.C1 Carnegie's legacy lives on ... Mr. Cargnegie's Grand Tour of Washington (interior il) Seattle Times 11/13/2011 A room with the long view (Now & Then photo by writer Paul Dorpat)
- TNT 3/25/2019 p.A1 Former first lady visits Tacoma (interior il of Michelle Obama)
- TNT 10/18/2020 p.8A Tacoma libraries face $2 million in cuts in proposed budget. (int il) 071 F779F 9/9/1904 p.1 (il); 12/25/1907 p.25 (il) 338.973 P83Pt 1918 p.28 (il) 352.3 G42S p.63 (il under construction) 917.97 W52 1902 p.21; 1904 p.26; 1905 p.26; 1909 p.24 917.9778 C498c (il) 979.72 F88 p.10 979.72 H91 Vol.II p.255 979.72 T11C (sketch) 979.72 T11R Tacoma; the rising center of commerce and manufacture. Delisle & Milliken publishers
- Year Built: 1903
- Decade Built: 1900s
- On City Historic Register
- Style: Renaissance
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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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