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24-13
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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; Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr., Charles Olmstead and T.B. Morrow, Landscape Architects, 1922. Full front view of English Tudor house and gardens. The residence is built of brick with wood accent on the exterior. The exterior is accented by six and eight foot high buttresses edged and capped with sandstone blocks. Wood accents each window and each dormer is inlaid with wood. Dogwood patterns are found as accents both on the exterior and interior. Gabled dormers and crenelated parapeted projections adorn the south facing entry. Most of the parapets are capped with lead sheets. The main house is 120 feet long and 55 feet wide at its widest point. It consists of three floors and a full basement, with an outlying carriage house and greenhouses. The main house had 16 principal rooms, lighted with tall lead glass windows. (TNT 5/30/1923; Landmarks Vol.2. No. 4 "Tacoma's Weyerhaeuser residence: its various historical significances" by William Collins) TPL-9770
Weyerhaeuser, John Philip--Homes & haunts; Haddaway Hall (Tacoma); Estates--Tacoma;