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1147-51 DOCK ST, TACOMA
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- Consumers Central Heating Co. J.E. Bonnell, contr. J.F. Huchtteons, brick contr. -concrete construction -built to replace bldg. destroyed by fire -company provided heat to buildings in downtown Tacoma -plant closed in Aug. 1979 TDL 8/1/1920 p.B6 New heating plant will be built here TDL 9/5/1920 p.B6 Heating plant buys site on Dock Street TDL 9/12/1920 p.B7 (il under construction) TDL 9/26/1920 p.B7 Work rushed on big smokestack TDL 10/3/1920 p.B8 Huge boilers placed in heating plant (il) TDL 10/17/1920 p.B7 Much interest in large stack TDL 10/24/1920 p.B7 Final test made of huge boilers in heating plant TDL 10/31/1920 p.B5 Huge stack completed (il) TDL 11/21/1920 p.B6 Heating plant soon be ready TDL 1/9/1921 p.B6 Complete work on big fuel conveyor (to bring hogged fuel from St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. plant) (il) TDL 1/30/1921 p.B5 Heating rates advanced here TDL 4/8/1925 Suppl. (ad - “Do It With Steam”) TDL 4/10/1928 Sec.III p.3 Central plant heats Tacoma TNT 1/27/1930 Plant that keeps all downtown Tacoma warm (il) T.Times 10/20/1937 TNT 5/4/1942 TNT 7/7/1957 (il from City Waterway) TNT 6/7/1959 (il) TNT 3/19/1961 Pacific Parade Magazine (il) TNT 5/5/1963 Magazine p.1,2 (il of shipment of hogged fuel headed to plant) TNT 9/2/1964 p.D2 (permit taken for loading crane) TNT 8/20/1967 p.C21 (permit taken for boiler room) TNT 11/21/1967 p.7 Heat for downtown (il of new boiler) TNT 5/26/1968 p.A2 Roger W. Peck of Consumers given award TNT 12/11/1976 p.A1 Downtown buildings to run out of steam TNT 10/3/1978 St. Regis withdrawal brings end to downtown heat plant TNT 9/1/1979 p.A2 Steam plant finally cools it (plant shuts down permanently) (il) TNT 4/1/1980 Brick by brick, stack coming down (il) 307.76 Un3T p.95
- Year Built: 1920
- Decade Built: 1920s
- Demolished: 1980
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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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