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24-12
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- 1935 (Creation)
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ca. 1935. John Philip and Anna Weyerhaeuser estate "Haddaway Hall", F.B. Meade and James Hamilton, of Cleveland, Ohio, Architects. View of main entrance and fireplace chimneys. The home was built on the site of the Allen C. Mason residence and the former location of Whitworth College. The home cost $100,000 to construct in 1922. The total 8 acre estate, with the completed landscaping and interiors of the home, was estimated to have cost 1/2 million dollars. It was sold after the Weyerhaeusers' deaths in 1936 to George G. Franklin, of Franklin Food Stores, for $26,000 plus back taxes. The Franklins renamed the home Seamount. The family did not live there long after repeated kidnapping threats. The home was later occupied by Tacoma Catholic College for girls and convent (from 1942-1968), University of Puget Sound Honors dormitory and the current tenant, the Northwest Baptist Seminary (1974-present.) The home is on the city and national registry of historical homes. (TNT 5/30/1923; Landmarks Vol.2. No. 4 "Tacoma's Weyerhaeuser residence: its various historical significances" by William Collins)
Weyerhaeuser, John Philip--Homes & haunts; Haddaway Hall (Tacoma); Estates--Tacoma;