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5900 S 12TH ST, TACOMA

• 3 images. Tacoma Community College Lyle Swedberg, arch. Strom Construction Co., contr. Wallace Ruff, landscape arch. -opened 9/27/1965 -officially dedicated 2/15/1968 SEE ALSO: TPL Catalog/Clipping File
• TNT 1/27/1961 p.1 School board will seek junior college
• TNT 6/28/1961 p.B10 Arguments strong for Tacoma junior college
• TNT 11/11/1962 p.A14 Forty-acre site selected for community college
• TNT 11/17/1962 p.1 Community college plans made here
• TNT 3/25/1963 p.1 Jr. college may open here in fall
• TNT 6/19/1963 p.B6 Tacoma presents case for community college
• TNT 7/9/1963 p.1 Community college OK'd for Tacoma in 1965-67
• TNT 7/16/1963 p.13 Planners OK college site
• TNT 8/21/1963 p.D6 Community college planning underway
• TNT 9/22/1963 p.D16 New Tacoma college to take handicapped
• TNT 1/24/1964 p.1 "Tacoma Community College" board names it, OK's its plans (il of model)
• TNT 1/26/1964 p.B8 Community college changing from dream to reality (il)
• TNT 2/11/1964 p.15 Plans, goals for college are reviewed
• TNT 2/14/1964 p.8 First phase of community college OK'd
• TNT 2/18/1964 p.24 Community college tract is approved
• TNT 8/9/1964 p.A1 Work begins on community college site (il)
• TNT 9/25/1964 p.20 School board approves final city college plans (sketch)
• TNT 11/13/1964 p.1 First buildings contracted for new college
• TNT 1/15/1965 p.3 Board adds six buildings to TCC plan
• TNT 3/3/1965 p.B6 Crane lifts wall section at new Tacoma college (il under construction)
• TNT 3/24/1965 p.A11 Tacoma Community College progress (il under construction)
• TNT 6/5/1966 p.A8 TCC holds its first graduation exercises (il)
• TNT 9/5/1965 p.D1 Doors are opening (interior il) Magazine Sec. p.1,6,16 Tacoma's newest college to open (il)
• TNT 9/26/1965 p.B14 1,000 pupils in college for opening (il under construction)
• TNT 9/27/1965 p.1 1,000 plus students open new college (il)
• TNT 1/9/1966 Community college building at top speed
• TNT 3/3/1966 TCC loses money race; delay likely
• TNT 3/15/1966 p.1 Suit against colleg job dismissed
• TNT 3/25/1966 p.1 Third phase college bids up $157,000
• TNT 4/1/1966 School board accepts low bids on college
• TNT 8/14/1966 p.A1,A16,A17 Community College to be bigger, better by 1967 (eight new bldgs. planned) (sketch)
• TNT 1/9/1966 p.A8 Community College building at top speed (il)
• TNT 4/1/1966 p.1 School board accepts low college bids (Strom Construction Co., contr.)
• TNT 4/29/1966 p.A1 Board cuts TCC costs $195,972 ... five-acre site purchased
• TNT 10/28/1966 p.C15 TCC building named for Mrs. Wanamaker (il of former State Superintendent of Public Instruction Pearl A. Wanamaker)
• TNT 11/13/1966 p.A19 Wanamaker library rises at TCC (interior il) (library named in honor of educator Pearl A. Wanamaker)
• TNT 12/4/1966 p.A17 ... is all-electric - first in West (il under construction)
• TNT 12/6/1966 p.A5 Two to aid in TCC cornerstone ceremony
• TNT 12/7/1966 p.D5 TCC library dedicated in snow-muted rites
• TNT 12/8/1966 p.D4 Mrs. Pearl Wanamaker honored (interior il)
• TNT 2/16/1967 p.A4 Paul Bunyan turns up for education at TCC (il)
• TNT 3/17/1967 p.D4 Completion of TCC due in summer
• TNT 6/16/1967 p.13 $347,000 grant approved for TCC buildings
• TNT 8/20/1967 p.B2 Builders race September deadline ... (il)
• TNT 9/17/1967 p.D1,D15 Faculty tea at TCC (interior il of library)
• TNT 12/14/1967 p.A16 Music opens TCC theater (Little Theater Building)
• TNT 2/11/1968 p.B2 TCC arts building to be dedicated (interior il of Little Theater Bldg.)
• TNT 2/13/1968 p.21-23 TCC campus designed to emphasize achievement, electronic age (aerial il)
• TNT 2/15/1968 p.A1 Students rally round radiant campus rock (il)
• TNT 2/16/1968 p.A1 TCC building named for Dr. Giaudrone (fine art bldg. named for city school superintendent Dr. Angelo Giaudrone)
• TNT 2/17/1968 Education "Investment in our own future"
• TNT 3/15/1968 p.D3 TCC campus project let (landscaping by Landscapers Northwest)
• TNT 7/31/1968 p.A14 Shrubs, trees and bark beautify TCC campus (landscaping by Landscapers Northwest, Inc.)
• TNT 10/25/1968 Community college director explains construction fund cut
• TNT 11/17/1968 p.E8 Arboretum turns idea into reality (il)
• TNT 1/24/1969 TCC to ask funds for office space
• TNT 1/31/1969 p.1 The fervor of the evangelist replaces brashness fo boxer (appearance by Muhammad Ali) (il)
• TNT 3/1/1969 TCC names architects for additions (Lyle Swedberg & Associates)
• TNT 4/6/1969 p.B12 First tree chosen for arboreteum at college (il of Maine black spruce)
• TNT 2/12/1969 p.4 Rocks break TCC windows
• TNT 5/13/1969 p.1 Rock's color fight issue
• TNT 5/18/1969 p.B8 TCC dedicates organ Wednesday
• TNT 5/25/1969 p.D10 TCC ready to dedicate aboretum
• TNT 5/28/1969 p.A3 Tree plot dedicated at college
• TNT 8/29/1969 TCC trustees OK plans for 3 buildings
• TNT 8/31/1969 p.B3 New TCC buildings (sketch of proposed new science bldg. by Lyle Swedberg, arch.)
• TNT 9/12/1969 Bond rejection to hurt construction at TCC
• TNT 10/16/1969 TCC projects under cloud of cutbacks
• TNT 11/5/1969 Action being sought for 3 TCC buildings
• TNT 3/27/1970 TCC finds building bid tops estimate
• TNT 7/12/1970 p.B7 Wall section into place (il)
• TNT 7/24/1970 TCC lets contract for 2 buildings (science bldg. and maintenance bldg. by Leo Finnegan Construction Co., contr.)
• TNT 11/20/1970 TCC seeks student center T.Review 12/1/1971 Dedication set for $497,000 science complex
• TNT 12/5/1971 Rites to mark TCC expansion
• TNT 7/29/1972 TCC construction plans go forward
• TNT 2/3/1974 TCC students out to build a student union
• TNT 4/14/1976 TCC planning major relocation of offices
• TNT 4/17/1976 TCC senate OK's student center funds
• TNT 4/23/1976 TCC trustees approve funds for office shift
• TNT 9/23/1977 Grants yield $375,000 for TCC recreation
• TNT 11/18/1977 p.A6 Hard times bind overcrowded TCC
• TNT 12/13/1977 TCC construction to be on schedule
• TNT 12/28/1977 TCC to break ground for new athletic field
• TNT 2/16/1978 TCC building named for Dr. Giaudrone (fine arts bldg. named in honor of educator Dr. Angelo Giaudrone)
• TNT 2/24/1978 TCC bites financial bullet for recreation construction
• TNT 12/14/1978 TCC president bids for campus minidome
• TNT 5/4/1979 At last - home track (il)
• TNT 8/1/1980 TCC may host handicapped center
• TNT 9/24/1986 TCC students push student center plans
• TNT 11/30/1988 p.B2 TCC student center ceremonies planned GTWY 12/27/1995 TCC's new bookstore opens Jan. 2 T.Daily Index 3/8/2001 p.1 TCC has groundbreaking for Opgaard Student Center (Helix Architecture, arch. and Construction Enterprises & Contractors, Inc., contr.) (sketch) Business Examiner 3/19/2001 p.15 Ground broken for expansion funded almost exclusively by TCC students (sketch) Business Examiner 10/15/2001 p.17 ... going through a major building boom (new art gallery designed by Schacht-Aslani Architects of Seattle, arch.) (sketch)
• TNT 2/22/2002 p.B1 A $3.2 million gift from former students; TCC dedicates new student center addition (interior il)
• TNT 6/28/2002 p.E1 Tacoma's newest art museum ... (The Gallery) T.Daily Index 7/2/2002 p.1 Grand opening of The Gallery ... (site plan) T.Weekly 9/20/2002 p.A5 Project will spruce up TCC campus (12th & Mildred landscaping project by KMB Design Development Co., landscape arch. and Construct, Inc., contr.) (il)
• TNT 7/17/2003 p.B2 Community college makes room for new building (Bldg. 13 and Bldg. 11B demolished to make way for new administration bldg.) T.Daily Index 10/24/2003 p.1 ... celebrates capital projects groundbreaking (sketch of new Information Technology Center)
• TNT 11/30/2004 p.B1 TCC's new $3.5 million building is first step in campus rebirth (new Class Room and Administration Bldg. by Schacht/Asiani, arch. and Scott Wall Construction, contr.) (il) T.Weekly 8/25/2005 p.A6 TCC celebrates two new buildings (dedication of new Information Technology Bldg. by Callison Architecture, Inc., arch. and Swinerton Builders, contr. and ground breaking for new Science Bldg. by Miiler Hull Partnership, arch. and Soltek Pacific, contr.)
• TNT 8/27/2005 Insight p.3 Out with old, cheap and ugly; in with the new at TCC (il of new IT Bldg.) T.Daily Index 9/1/2005 p.1 Preparing for the future at TCC (il of model of new Science Bldg.)
• TNT 9/20/2007 p.A1 TCC shows off its new look (new Science & Engineering Bldg. and the Herman & Babe Lehrer Japanese Friendship Garden dedicated) (il) T.Daily Index 10/20/2008 p.1 TCC opens new Early Learning Center (il of Annette Weyerhaeuser Early Learing Center by McGranahan Architects, arch. and Pease Construction, Inc., contr.) Business Examiner 11/10/2008 p.27 TCC's early learning center building wins award (il) T.Daily Index 5/27/2010 p.1 Building honors TCC president (Pamela Transue Center for Science and Engineering) (il) T.Daily Index 10/7/2010 p.1 TCC receives its largest gift (sketch of proposed Harned Center for Health Careers)
• TNT 10/7/2010 p.A3 TCC receives largest gift (H.C. "Joe" Harned donation) T.Daily Index 7/9/2012 p.1 Construction under way on TCC's Harned Center (S.D. Deacon Corp., contr.) (sketch) T.Daily Index 9/7/2012 p.1 Harned Center groundbreaking (sketch) T.Weekly 9/14/2012 p.A4 TCC holds groundbreaking for Harned Center (NBBJ Architects, arch.) (sketch) T.Daily Index 3/8/2013 p.1 Construction continues on TCC's Harned Center (il under construction) T.Daily Index 8/18/2014 p.1 A glimpse inside ... Harned Center for Health Careers (interior il) T.Daily Index 9/5/2014 p.1 Officials celebrate Harned Center for Health Careers grand opening (il,interior il)
• TNT 2/6/2020 p.3a Tacoma Community College loses power, cancels classes (il)
• TNT 2/9/2020 p.3A Tacoma Community College re opens after power problems 979.778 M364T p.195
• Year Built: 1965
• Decade Built: 1960s

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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• 5900 S 12TH ST, TACOMA