58 images. Tourist Hotel / Stadium High School Tacoma Land Co., builder Hewitt & Hewitt Architects, arch. (Geo. Watson Hewiit & Wm. Dempster Hewitt) Frederick Heath, arch. (remodeling for high school) Geo. Evans, contr. -bldg. started as hotel in 1890, (the Tourist Hotel or the Olympian), never completed, converted to a high school in 1905 -"supposedly an exact copy of a old French castle in the chateau country near Tours on the Loire River south of Paris" (
TNT 10/19/1975) -damaged by fire 10/11/1898 -bond issue for high school approved by voters 4/23/1904 -opened 9/10/1906 as Tacoma High School, named changed to Stadium High School in 1913 -added to theTacoma Register by Resolution No.23159, 1/2/1975 -major renovation 2005-2006 (Krei Architects, arch., Skanska USA Building, contr. and Turner Construction Co., project manager) -rededicated 8/31/2006 -four floors, three basements, four attic levels -196,642 sq. ft., 12.07 acre site -total of 575 windows SEE ALSO: 211 NO. E ST. (The Stadium) SEE ALSO: 51 NO. STADIUM WAY (Stadium Cottage) SEE ALSO: TPL Catalog/Clipping File
TDL 2/16/1890 p.5 Another big hotel
TDL 5/8/1890 p.5 Tacoma's $500,000 hotel
TDL 5/9/1890 Looking for a site
TDL 5/18/1890 That $500,000 hotel
TDL 5/28/1890 p.5 The site cost $86,000
TDL 6/1/1890 p.9 Tacoma's "peaceful point" and natural park
TDL 8/14/1890 p.5 Plans for the big new hotel
TDL 9/8/1890 p.4 (description)
TDL 9/20/1890 p.5 (sketch)
TDL 9/21/1890 p.5,6 (excavation) Every Sunday 12/20/1890 p.3 (sketch)
TDL 1/1/1891 (sketch)
TDL 5/16/1891 p.5 Mr. Hewitt is here
TDL 5/25/1892 p.3 (progress)
TDL 6/4/1892 p.4 (contract for interior work)
TDL 6/11/1892 p.5 (Hewitt visits site)
TDL 7/4/1892 Building a big city
TDL 1/1/1893 p.15 (progress)
TDL 8/10/1893 p.5 (progress)
TDL 10/12/1898 Third big fire for Tacoma
TDL 10/13/1898 Hotel walls appear gloomy and bare
TDL 10/14/1898 p.5 Police in the dark
TDL 10/15/1898 p.1 What is best to do with the ruins? p.2 Fire remains a mystery
TDL 10/18/1908 p.35 Plans a magnificent high school system
TDL 1/9/1912 Enlarge schools for growing city
TDL 7/14/1912 School auditorium is being enlarged
TDL 8/4/1912 p.41 Remodelin of high school auditorium reveals feudal-like walls of hotel ruins
TDL 2/23/1913 p.25 Stadium High's proposed $40,000 "gym" for boys and girls
TDL 7/20/1913 Plans almost ready for high school gym
TDL 10/5/1913 Rush to finish new Stadium gym
TDL 1/27/1914 p.12 Front view of the Stadium High School (il)
TDL 2/8/1914 Japanese gardens to be added to Stadium's attractions
TDL 4/11/1915 Opposition to new gymnasium TNL 5/13/1917 p.21 Large girders arrive for gym (Heath & Gove, arch.) (il) TNL 6/24/1917.p.2l Network of big steel girders reinforcing Stadium High gym (il)
TNT 4/23/1919 Green trees honor high school's heroes; Stadium students reverently plant remembrances to those who made the big sacrifice (ten rare Thuga Obtusa trees planted in honor of Stadium war dead) (il)
TNT 4/5/1920 Dedicate organ at high school (Estey Concert Organ purchased "by popular subscription" from the old Colonial Theater at 918 Broadway)
TNT 4/22/1920 To unveil tablet honoring teacher; late Dr. Gault once headed schools in Tacoma (Dr. Franklin B. Gault)
TDL 4/20/1924 p.A13 (interior il of auditorium)
TDL 4/22/1925 p.1 Lloyds cause riot at school (visit of film star Harold Lloyd)
TNT 5/27/1926 Stadium to honor 11 soldier dead
TNT 5/28/1926 Stadium honors its youths who gave their lives in war
TDL 5/29/1926 p.1 Tablet to war dead unveiled (il)
TNT 1/19/1928 p.1 Tacoma's first big blaze made Stadium High possible (il)
TDL 4/12/1935 p.2 Plan Stadium High changes ... to reduce fire insurance T.Times 4/2/1936 p.1 Robbers raid Stadium High School; crack open safe
TNT 3/7/1946 Support school measures to protect many lives! (interior il)
TNT 3/8/1946 Stadium badly lit
TNT 6/4/1946 Gives memorial plaque (Charles Hufford donates bronze plaque in honor of his daughter, Janet Lucia Hufford, who died before her graduation)
TNT 3/5/1947 p.4 Gunning for vandals (il)
TNT 4/25/1947 p.1 Stadium High School to be made fireproof (E.T. Mock, arch.) T.Times 9/16/1947 Modern scoreboards for grid fans (electric scoreboard donated by the Tacoma Athletic Commission) (il)
TNT 2/6/1948 p.1 Jobs let at Stadium (new stairways and ventilating system)
TNT 6/10/1948 p.1 Start work at Stadium (new stairways and other alterations by Mock & Morrison, arch. and Construction Engineers & Contractors, contr.)
TNT 8/22/1948 p.A1 Contractors are busy ... (interior il of new stair well and new fluorescent lighting system) (a new fire alarm system also installed)
TNT 12/10/1948 School board accepts construction project (new fireproof stair well by the Construction & Engineering Co., contr.)
TNT 8/20/1951 p.24 Yeggs try safes at Stadium High
TNT 9/16/1951 Fire ends Tacoma dream of great hotel (il)
TNT 4/7/1953 p.D9 After the fire ... (il)
TNT 2/26/1954 p.A1 High school smoking probe set
TNT 12/19/1954 p.C15 New Stadium scoreboard (il of basketball scoreboard)
TNT 5/29/1955 Tacoma displays many towers and spires (il)
TNT 6/12/1955 p.D10 Stadium boys repair, play old pipe organ (il of organ)
TNT 12/23/1955 p.1 Stadium Hi face- lifting study okayed by Board
TNT 1/22/1956 p.A1 Stadium High proposal may save taxes, school (remodeling plan)
TNT 3/25/1956 p.A1 Stadium High 50 years old
TNT 5/20/1956 p.B6 Pipe organ diagnosticians ask aid (proposal to repair school organ)
TNT 5/21/1956 p.2 Vandals destroy living memorial at Stadium (War Memorial Trees, first planted in 1919, were killed by a frost in Nov. 1955, replacement trees destroyed by vandals) (memorial wreaths first placed on trees by students in 1923)
TNT 5/28/1956 New trees for Stadium (paid for by student donations) (il)
TNT 6/22/1956 p.6 Stadium job costs rated
TNT 7/31/1956 Vandals again break down Stadium trees
TNT 9/7/1956 p.1 School board delays action on Stadium
TNT 9/9/1956 p.A1 Stadium High likely to be used many years
TNT 9/10/1956 p.1 Teachers just missed getting "plastered" (ceiling collapse)
TNT 9/14/1956 p.1 Stadium job to be checked by architects
TNT 9/18/1956 School repair ... most important
TNT 9/19/1956 p.A1 Rebuilding of school, bowl seen as cheaper
TNT 11/5/1956 p.17 Vote Yes To Rebuild Our Stadium High
TNT 11/11/1956 p.A10 Rebuilding of Stadium High plans under way (remodeling by Lea, Pearson & Richards, arch.) (il)
TNT 6/20/1957 p.A9 Stadium bids all rejected
TNT 7/10/1957 p.D10 Stadium roof job awarded (Gilbert Wojahn / E.J. Bresemann, arch. and Woodard Construction Co., contr.)
TNT 7/31/1957 p.B9 "Surrey" getting new fringe (wood shingles replaced with composition roofing) (il)
TNT 8/25/1957 p.A1 Stadium High roof job tough on contractors (il)
TNT 9/22/1957 p.B6 New bonnet for Stadium (in of work on finials)
TNT 2/25/1958 p.4 Firemen "insulted and delayed" at Stadium H.S.
TNT 4/16/1958 p.D6 Books, blondes or bays in library controversy
TNT 5/4/1958 p.A1 Stadium High has split personality as students plan shift to Wilson
TNT 6/5/1958 p.1 School job contracts let (remodeling by Strom Construction Co., contr.)
TNT 7/20/1958 p.B11 Devoted rooters save Stadium High School (il)
TNT 8/27/1958 Stadium High students get brief reprieve
TNT 8/29/1958 p.1 Big beam put in place at Stadium (il)
TNT 10/10/1958 Stadium back on full time next week
TNT 11/30/1958 p.A1 Things are rough at "The Castle" but better times are coming (interior il of gymnasium and auditorium remodeling)
TNT 2/25/1959 p.B8 Vandals with paint brushes visit Stadium
TNT 8/16/1959 p.B2-B4 Remodeling of Stadium nearing completion (interior il of gymnasium)
TNT 8/26/1959 Better science facilities
TNT 9/11/1959 p.B6 Architect, school board dispute on fee
TNT 11/16/1959 p.15 Stadium High rededication to be Tuesday
TNT 11/25/1968 p.5 Stadium High racial dispute answer sought
TNT 12/5/1968 p.A18 Stadium OKs new Negro group to meet needs of students
TNT 2/16/1969 p.A20 Missoula and Wallace railroad depots recall hotel which became Stadium High School (bricks from bldg. used in construction of stations at Missoula, Montana and Wallace, Idaho) (il of Wallace depot)
TNT 8/17/1969 p.D11 (addition for counseling facilities)
TNT 1/27/1970 p.9 Stadium High School students see the making of 41 Americans (interior il)
TNT 10/13/1971 Brown Castle gets green yard
TNT 9/15/1972 $520,000 Stadium High addition OKd (industrial arts - science bldg. by Seifort, Forbes & Berry, arch.)
TNT 10/4/1972 Stadium High School addition planned T.Review 10/4/1972 Stadium High School addition planned (sketch) Seattle Times 6/3/1973 Tacoma's "castle" of learning (il,interior il)
TNT 6/5/1973 Plans for new Stadium High School building advance T.Review 6/13/1973 Proposed campus (sketch)
TNT 4/26/1974 ... project funds come up short
TNT 4/27/1974 School cash hopes told
TNT 5/8/1974 Board will try again on addition (first planned in 1965)
TNT 6/3/1974 Stadium High groundbreaking (il)
TNT 5/21/1975 Stadium High mall rejected by City Council (pedestrian mall proposed for No. E St.)
TNT 8/11/1975 Deal reached on street closure T.Review 9/24/1975 One floor sits idle in SHS building (only one floor of new Angelo Giaudrone Science & Industrial Arts Bldg. being used due to lack of funds)
TNT 10/19/1975 Time Machine T.Review 10/22/1975 New SHS facility ...
TNT 10/26/1975 School sets Giaudrone dedication
TNT 10/28/1975 Embattled addition to be dedicated
TNT 10/29/1975 New building is dedicated T.Review 11/5/1975 New building dedicated (Angelo Giaudrone Science and Arts Bldg. by Seifert, Forbes & Berry, arch.)
TNT 1/7/1976 Stadium pool not on citizen's list
TNT 1/13/1976 p.B11 Stadium pool issue argued
TNT 1/20/1976 School advisory group wants vote on pool
TNT 3/21/1976 Stadium pool disputed item
TNT 4/4/1977 Stadium's neighbors worry about isolation
TNT 8/10/1977 Stadium High mall asked by residents
TNT 9/7/1977 "Shrinking" street gets council nod
TNT 12/10/1977 p.A3 Poem in stone
TNT 3/4/1979 p.4 (il)
TNT 5/23/1981 Memorial Day assembly ... (new stained glass window donated by the senior class) (il)
TNT 10/17/1981 p.A3 Stadium, the high school, plans a birthday party (il)
TNT 5/27/1982 Stadium High School Diamond Jubilee celebration tomorrow
TNT 5/29/1982 p.A3 Stadium's diamond shines with two kinds of memories (il)
TNT 6/17/1983 Engineers label Stadium "Castle" sturdy as a rock
TNT 5/24/1986 Ceremony at Stadium honors war dead (il)
TNT 8/1/1986 p.B1 Underground-pool plan at Stadium may be dead
TNT 10/8/1986 Remodeling means Stadium High will be without swimming pools
TNT 2/2/1987 p.B1 Stadium High: Class memories for young, old
TNT 4/16/1987 p.B8 Stadium High students will splash in new pool
TNT 4/27/1987 p.A1 No middle ground in school transition
TNT 6/4/1987 Stadium High pool bidders surface
TNT 7/13/1987 Officials to meet to explain Stadium pool project details (Lowell Larsen, project arch. and Eberharter Construction Group, contr.)
TNT 9/5/1987 p.B1 Contractors race to ready school for opening day
TNT 11/26/1987 Neighbors Sec. p.1 Memorial honors Stadium youth (art project dedicated to Craig Martin, class of 1988, who died before graduation
TNT 6/6/1988 Rusty girders discovered in Stadium gym supports
TNT 6/10/1988 Stadium High's leaky roof to get fix
TNT 7/14/1988 p.B1 Cost of rebuilding Stadium court may exceed $1.4 million
TNT 7/21/1988 p.A1 Landmark Stadium High too costly? Panels of citizens question upkeep; parents want promised access for handicapped
TNT 8/9/1988 p.B1 Still waiting for the elevator at Stadium
TNT 8/26/1988 Stadium elevator year away
TNT 11/23/1988 p.E1 Cost overruns aside, new pool welcomed warmly (interior il)
TNT1/2/1989 p.A1 Red tape keeps Stadium's pool closed to public
TNT 4/7/1993 Stadium to dedicate swim pool to Streeter (named in honor of former swim coach Wally Streeter)
TNT 11/16/1994 p.B1 Stadium teen kills himself at school
TNT 3/22/1996 p.A1 Chunk of history was hidden away; a time capsule at Stadium High
TNT 5/6/1998 p.A1 New role for Stadium ... to star in a new Disney feature film (scenes for motion picture "10 Things I Hate About You" to be filmed at school) (il)
TNT 6/18/1998 p.A1 Much ado about a contemporary shrew (il of motion picture crew) T.Reporter 7/2/1998 p.1 Stadium goes Shakespeare ... Hollywood update of a classic tale (il)
TNT 3/7/1999 p.B1 Disney's "10 Things" will return to Tacoma for invitation-only screening
TNT 3/31/1999 p.A1 Film starring Stadium High debuts p.SL1,SL3 Tacoma's tame "Shrew" T.Reporter 4/8/1999 p.14 Big-screen Tacoma
TNT 10/29/2000 p.B3 TV president gives Tacomans advice on picking real president (election rally appearance by actor Martin Sheen, actor Rob Reiner, Governor Gary Locke and others)
TNT 1/14/2001 p.B1 School district invites input of preservationists in remodel plans
TNT 1/20/2001 p.A1,A2,A10 $85 million sought for remodel; protecting Stadium's treasured architecture while modernizing school will be expensive (il,interior il)
TNT 1/28/2001 p.B1 Architect says there's more than meets the eye when updating school
TNT 3/1/2001 p.A7 Heavy stones topple from century-old Stadium High (earthquake damage) Preservation News May 2001 Inside job (il)
TNT 7/15/2001 p.B1 Time to save Stadium High is now, not later
TNT 2/3/2002 p.B1 Hold tight onto history as Stadium gets remodel
TNT 3/18/2002 p.A1,A2,A8 Seeing what hides inside castle walls; experts pour over Stadium High ... (il,interior il) T.Weekly 4/5/2002 p.A1 Down and out in Stadium District
TNT 8/20/2002 p.B1 Historic items being preserved in renovation ...
TNT 9/21/2002 p.B1 Girl, 15, raped at Stadium High
TNT 9/25/2002 p.B1 Stadium strengthening security
TNT 9/29/2002 p.B1 Sentimental vine at Stadium High has got to go, despite history
TNT 12/1/2002 p.A1 The art of architecture
TNT 12/5/2002 p.B1 If Stadium High creed was good in 1931, it's good today, too
TNT 9/28/2003 p.B1 Concert at the Castle a start - more to come
TNT 1/14/2004 p.B3 Stadium's big cat moves in (8 ft., 400 lbs. bronze tiger by Sequim artist Oliver Strong) (il)
TNT 2/7/2004 p.C1 Fond farewell to Stadium's dungeon; underground gymnasium that opened in 1918 and was renovated before the 1960 season hosts its last boys game (interior il)
TNT 10/11/2004 p.A1 The castle's new clothes; an $85 million renovation will add an arts center, tennis courts and parking ... (il)
TNT 12/29/2004 p.A1 Woman gets wallet back after 30 years (found during remodeling)
TNT 1/26/2005 p.B3 Old high school furnishings such as desks, blackboards for sale
TNT 2/17/2005 p.A1 City suffers the schoolhouse blues (aerial il) T.Weekly 2/24/2005 p.A2 "The Castle" undergoing changes (il) Business Examiner 7/25/2005 p.11 Stadium renovation unlike any other job for development team (aerial il)
TNT 8/28/2005 p.E3 Beauty gets a Beast in Stadium High renovation (il of new preforming arts and physical education bldg.) T.Weekly 11/17/2005 p.A1 Stadium HS construction well under way (il)
TNT 12/26/2005 p.B1 High times for Stadium High; multiple-reunions centennial event will mark school's reopening
TNT 1/9/2006 p.A1 First peek inside the Castle (il,interior il) T.Weekly 1/12/2006 p.A1 Touring the Castle (il)
TNT 3/24/2006 p.B2 Got Stadium memorabilia? You could see it in a documentary T.Weekly 5/11/2006 p.A6 Tiger statue travels back to Castle home
TNT 6/5/2006 p.B1 One Stadium tiger gets home early (il) T.Daily Index 6/8/2006 p.1 City's Landmarks Commission honors historic preservation leaders T.Weekly 8/17/2006 p.A1 Stadium High nears completion p.A6 Book captures Stadium's artistic transformation (il)
TNT 8/27/2006 p.B1 Bands ready to rock Stadium party; three-day celebration expected to draw 30,000 Senior Scene Sept. 2006 p.1 Ol' brown castle turns 100! (il)
TNT 9/1/2006 p.B1 Rebirth for Stadium (il of new addition)
TNT 9/3/2006 p.A1,A7-A11 The best castle money can buy; a castle reveals its secrets (il,interior il) T.Weekly 9/7/2006 p.D1 Stadium high school dedication draws hundreds (il,interior il)
TNT 9/9/2006 Tacoma's grand castle (Special Section) (il)
TNT 9/14/2006 p.B1 Stadium High party starts Friday
TNT 9/17/2006 p.B1 Stadium students remember past, celebrate future
TNT 9/19/2006 p.A1 Thousands storm the castle T.Weekly 9/21/2006 p.D4 Stadium celebration draws record-breaking alums (il)
TNT 9/29/2007 p.A1 World's oldest man, meet Stadium High ... centennial gathering on Sept. 16, 2006 is recognized by Guinness World Records T.Weekly 4/26/2013 p.B4 Historic Homes of Tacoma Tour
TNT 5/25/2014 p.B1 Plaque dedicated to Stadium's war dead again in its proper spot (il)
TNT 5/26/2018 p.A3 China's American hero pilot honored at Stadium High (Robert M. "Bob" Short) 051 P119P Apr. 1908 p.453 071 N213N Vol.I p.19,20 (il) 352.3 G42S p.133 (il - burning of the Tourist Hotel) 363.37 T142O p.25 (account of fire on 10/11/1898) 373.797 ST12S 373.7977 J4535V (il) 379.797 T11 Oct. 1898 p.1 The ground is accursed 720.973 V465S p.376 (il) 720.979 Si11E 917.9778 V679V (il) 979 C723C Fall 2006 p.26 The Brown Castle (il) 979.7 N812 July 1891 p.19,39,40 (il) 979.72 H91 Vol.II opp. p.116 (il under construction) p.243-46 979.72 T11C (il of hotel ruins after 1898 fire) 979.778 H628H Vol.I p.37, Vol.III p.102 979.778 K524KE 979.778 M364T p.104 979.778 R955C (il)
