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1109-13 PACIFIC AVE, TACOMA
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- Barlow-Catlin Block / Washington Block C.S. Barlow & Charles Catlin, builder Proctor & Dennis, arch. -later renamed the Arcade Bldg., Bankers Trust Bldg. -demolished in 1956
- TDL 2/6/1889 p.5 New buildings
- TDL 4/28/1889 p.4 One million dollars Every Sunday 6/15/1889 p.1 An elegant block
- TDL 1/23/1890 p.3 Barlow-Catlin Block
- TDL 1/28/1890 p.3 It is a great block
- TDL 3/9/1895 p.5 Opening of the Olympic Hotel
- TDL 3/13/1898 p.1 (sketch)
- TDL 7/3/1898 (sketch)
- TDL 12/3/1905 p.19 Investors purchase Washington Bldg.; will improve
- TDL 12/24/1905 p.16 (diagram of floor plans for remodeling)
- TNT 3/7/1922 Do you remember? (il of W.G. Rowland Grocery c.1892) 979.72 H91 Vol.I p.539 ----- Arcade Bldg.
- TDL 10/7/1906 p.19 (ad,il)
- TDL 10/21/1906 p.15 (description,floor plan) (il) ----- Bankers Trust Bldg.
- TDL 8/18/1907 p.5 (ad,il)
- TDL 4/19/1914 p.24 (sketch of new bank store front by Lundberg & Mahon, arch.)
- TDL 5/30/1915 p.24 Bankers Trust to remodel building
- TDL 6/13/1915 p.28 (sketch of new entrance)
- TDL 9/12/1915 p.32 Discovers skill in sculpturing (new entrance by Luther Twichell, arch.) TDN 12/17/1917 p.1 Tacoman plunges to his death
- TDL 12/11/1921 p.B7 Realtors in new quarters (interior il of C.F. Mason & Co. Realty)
- TDL 12/2/1923 p.A6 Rest retreat is opened by Mason
- TDL 7/17/1927 p.G5 Real estate salesmen choose Whippets (il)
- TDL 8/28/1932 p.B4 Open new realty office (il of Steel, Steel, Steel, Inc. Real Estate)
- TDL 2/7/1937 p.B9 (bldg. to be closed above second floors to save funds)
- TNT 9/20/1939 p.20 Elevator is installed in Goodwill Bldg. (bldg. elevator installed in Goodwill Bldg. at 2356 Tacoma Ave. So.)
- TNT 11/17/1940 p.A8 20 years service (Steel, Steel, Steel, Inc.)
- TNT 11/7/1941 p.19 New store is opened (il of Sam Altose Men's Wear Shop at 1113 Pacific Ave.)
- TNT 2/27/1943 p.1 U.S. takes over big building; Bankers Trust will become dormitory for housing war workers (remodeling by Lea, Pearson & Richards, arch.)
- TNT 3/10/1943 p.18 Dormitory (il)
- TNT 6/11/1944 p.B14 For sale (il)
- TNT 1/1/1946 p.1 Pacific Ave. bldg. sold
- TNT 10/13/1946 p.A14 New location (interior il of the Thoralf Hagen Barber Shop)
- TNT 12/15/1955 p.A1,C14 New 4-story building here; will replace landmark (to be demolished) (il)
- TNT 3/4/1956 p.A1,A12 Call bids for new structure
- TNT 4/29/1956 New Peoples building doubles present space (bldg. to be demolished to make way for Peoples Store Annex) 917.9778 C498C (il)
- Year Built: 1889
- Decade Built: 1880s
- Demolished: 1956
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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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