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625 COMMERCE ST, TACOMA

• 28 images. Old City Hall E.A. Hatherton, arch. Traves & Co., contr. -bldg. originally planned for 9th & Broadway, bldg. sites traded with the Chamber of Commerce -"fifteenth-century Italian town hall architecture" -six stories, 133 ft. x 90 ft. -tower 187 ft., 32 ft. sq. -became "Old" City Hall when the County-City Bldg. opened in 1959 -saved from demolition and restored as shopping center from 1969 to 1974 (grand opening 11/2/1974) -added to National Register 5/17/1974 -added to Tacoma Register by Resolution No.23038, 10/8/1974 -converted into office bldg. in 1980 -plans at TPL SEE ALSO: TPL Catalog/Clipping File
• TDL 3/20/1884 The city building (proposed bldg. by Wm. Farrell, arch.)
• TDL 5/29/1889 p.5 Now for a city hall
• TDL 6/13/1889 p.4 City hall plans
• TDL 7/11/1890 p.5 The new city hall
• TDL 7/25/1890 p.5 The new city hall
• TDL 8/10/1890 p.11 (sketch of proposed bldg.)
• TDL 5/14/1891 p.3 Work on the city hall
• TDL 5/28/1891 p.5 The trade moving on
• TDL 7/12/1891 p.5 Will swap the sites
• TDL 9/6/1891 p.5 Bids for City Hall
• TDL 10/26/1891 p.5 The new City Hall (il)
• TDL 6/27/1892 p.6 Will soon be under roof
• TDL 9/16/1892 p.5 The City Hall tower
• TDL 11/13/1892 p.3 City Hall all right (details of inspection architects Farrell, Dennis and Haywood)
• TDL 12/16/1892 p.3 (contracts let for finishing work)
• TDL 1/1/1893 p.15 The year's brick buildings
• TDL 2/24/1893 p.3 A receiver appointed for Traves & Co.
• TDL 3/17/1893 p.3 Tacoma's civic home
• TDL 3/23/1893 p.3 A permanent receiver
• TDL 4/25/1893 p.5 Moving into the City Hall
• TDL 4/27/1893 p.4 The new City Hall accepted
• TDL 4/30/1893 p.5 The City Councilmen hold a love feast in honor of the removal
• TDL 5/4/1893 p.3 What the City Hall cost
• TDL 5/7/1893 p.5 Press the nail and whistle (elevator)
• TDL 5/13/1893 p.5 In spacious quarters (Tacoma Public Library) Library Journal Mar. 1895 p.77 Some libraries of the Northwest (interior il)
• TDL 3/22/1903 p.1O Tacoma's tower of electric lights (il)
• TDL 9/25/1904 p.5 Chime clock for City Hall (gift of Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Wallace)
• TDL 4/30/1905 p.25 Mildred Fuller Wallace Memorial Clock (il,full page article) TDN 6/29/1905 (il) TDN 2/11/1907 p.1 The bombardment begins tomorrow (cartoon of "boosters" on tower of bldg.) TNL 3/4/1917 p.8 City Hall boasts "Orpheus" of own
• TDL 2/29/1920 p.A9 Raise efficiency of city offices (2nd floor remodeled)
• TDL 5/16/1920 p.B5 Plans proposed to remodel jail
• TDL 4/8/1924 p.2 City Hall near fire from acid
• TDL 8/15/1926 p.E8 Police station to have larger space (remodeling by C.F. Erickson, contr.)
• TDL 12/1/1927 p.2 City Hall bug pest isolated
• TDL 3/10/1928 p.1 City Hall damaged by fire T.Times 3/10/1928 Vote $25,000 repair funds at City Hall ... inmates may have started fire in airshaft
• TDL 3/11/1928 p.A7 Place City Hall loss at $15,000
• TDL 7/24/1928 p.1 City Hall addition is talked (proposed for north side of building)
• TDL 11/8/1928 p.3 Addition to be seven stories (Public Utilities Dept. proposes addition to bldg.)
• TDL 8/29/1929 p.1 City Hall tower is given new lights (il)
• TDL 9/1/1929 p.A1 New City Hall unit designed (sketch of proposed addition by Tacoma Architects, Inc., arch.)
• TDL 9/29/1929 p.A4 City-County Building seen as future Tacoma project (sketch of proposed bldg. on site by Hill, Mock & Morrison, arch.)
• TDL 1/5/1930 p.B9 Humorous epitaphs last of old jail
• TDL 2/9/1932 Gravure Sec. p.7 (il)
• TDL 3/16/1932 p.2 City Hall boilers may stay on job
• TDL 8/23/1932 p.1 Chamber asks delay in City Hall transfer (proposal to trade City Hall for Medical Arts Bldg.)
• TDL 11/8/1932 p.3 Turn down Arts Tower proposal T.Times 11/15/1935 Four clock faces on City Hall lighted once again (il) T.Times 4/16/1938 Tower unsafe; city may never ring old Wallace chimes
• TNT 5/20/1938 p.1 Bee swarm causes stir at city hall
• TNT 10/23/1938 p.B9 Reporter gives alarm an hour before blaze
• TNT 12/19/1938 p.1 Moves to rebuild City Hall (remodeling proposed)
• TNT 12/20/1938 p.1 Can't find blueprints
• TNT 12/22/1938 p.1 City Light building rejected
• TNT 12/23/1938 p.17 Would link buildings
• TNT 12/27/1938 p.13 City Hall's walls good
• TNT 7/3/1939 p.1 Tacoma's City Hall getting face cleaned T.Times 7/26/1939 City Hall face washed (il)
• TNT 11/24/1939 p.2 Rope mystery cleared; wasn't suicide after all
• TNT 12/14/1939 p.10 City tower blazes again (il) T.Times 12/14/1939 Song of the chimes; old chimes to ring again (silent since 1931) (il)
• TNT 8/23/1941 p.9 City Hall shifts seen (remodeling proposed)
• TNT 1/16/1942 p.5 Remodeling is approved; second floor of city hall will be improved T.Times 1/16/1942 ... remodeling City Hall T.Times 2/11/1942 ... work to cost $40,000
• TNT 5/4/1942 Central heat at City Hall (to receive service from Consumers Central Heating Co.)
• TNT 7/8/1942 p.19 Expert wood worker dies (James L. Paulson, "hand turned all of the ballustrades and newell posts for the stairs in the city hall")
• TNT 11/1/1942 p.A1 All yours, this too (il of old jail cell door, to be sent to scrap drive)
• TNT 11/30/1942 Improvement ... talked again
• TNT 12/21/1942 p.3 Open war bond office (interior il)
• TNT 11/29/1944 p.16 Pretty mad at City Hall clock
• TNT 1/11/1946 p.1 City Hall clock chimes ring out once again
• TNT 2/10/1946 p.A1,A11 City's fire program pushed (interior il)
• TNT 12/17/1946 ... fire escapes are not safe
• TNT 12/28/1947 p.A1 Please start city clock so this fellow can eat
• TNT 1/8/1948 p.9 Please, Mr. Mayor, fix that city clock again T.Times 7/29/1948 City Hall chimes stilled long before war - and remain silent
• TNT 8/3/1948 p.1 City chimes ring again, days only
• TNT 4/14/1949 p.B4 City Hall weird place as quake rocked city
• TNT 4/17/1949 p.A5 Easter is anniversary of chimes installation (il)
• TNT 9/12/1949 p.21 City women lose appeal (for increased restroom facilities)
• TNT 12/15/1949 p.C6 Anyway, they disliked color of mayor's job
• TNT 11/9/1950 p.B6 City Hall is getting plastered (earthquake repairs)
• TNT 11/12/1950 p.A13 Lanterns give no light tp perplexing question (il)
• TNT 12/3/1950 p.A1 Pierce Co., City afoul of fire law (interior il)
• TNT 12/6/1950 p.A1 Fire hazard on way out
• TNT 1/9/1951 p.9 ... will get interior face lifting
• TNT 1/28/1951 p.C14 Council chamber under critical eye (interior il)
• TNT 2/16/1951 p.4 To remodel City Hall
• TNT 5/16/1951 p.D3 City Hall Big Ben too fast
• TNT 7/18/1951 p.1 High hot spot (il of tower roof)
• TNT 7/20/1951 p.15 City Hall gets fancy new flag
• TNT 8/12/1951 p.B10 Historic significance in tower clean-up move (il)
• TNT 8/26/1951 Tacoma's architecture changes with years (sketch)
• TNT 11/25/1951 p.A7 Budget woes keep city timepiece dark
• TNT 3/26/1952 p.24 Seeks new elevator
• TNT 9/29/1952 p.1 City Hall clock holds out -- fast time is slow to end
• TNT 10/19/1952 p.A4 Fire drills inadvisable
• TNT 10/24/1952 p.18 New elevator for City Hall due at last
• TNT 10/26/1952 p.A8 Buildings inadequate
• TNT 11/24/1952 p.1 Attack City Hall safe
• TNT 12/31/1952 p.12 Elevator out in City Hall after Monday
• TNT 6/1/1953 p.24 Empty halls on 3rd floor of City Hall
• TNT 7/27/1953 p.17 Old desk retires from council wars
• TNT 9/27/1953 p.A1 City's famous chimes facing uncertain fate (il)
• TNT 11/28/1953 p.1 Moving day at City Hall (Public Utilities moves to new headquarters) (interior il)
• TNT 12/14/1953 Old Glory at City Hall has trouble again
• TNT 12/30/1953 p.2 City Hall will be renovated
• TNT 2/14/1954 p.A8 City's records piling up in old jail; officials worry over documents (interior il)
• TNT 8/15/1954 p.A12 No place for famous chimes here; ignored in Couunty-City Bldg. plans (il)
• TNT 1/5/1955 Electronics threatens city chimes say rumor
• TNT 5/29/1955 Tacoma displays many towers and spires
• TNT 11/16/1955 p.C20 Looked like distress at City Hall (flag upside down)
• TNT 11/17/1955 p.A6 Tattered ensign down from City Hall pole
• TNT 4/8/1956 p.A10 City Hall building costs have familiar ring; remember 1893? (interior il)
• TNT 8/13/1956 p.1 City Hall fire quelled fast
• TNT 8/28/1956 p.1 We can use that C-C Building any time (interior il of fallen plaster in city manager's office)
• TNT 1/1/1957 Is this last year for City Hall chimes? (il)
• TNT 4/18/1957 p.A11 Swap offices in City Hall
• TNT 5/27/1957 p.A4 Choas reigns briefly in City Hall (ceiling plaster falls in mayor's office)
• TNT 6/30/1957 p.A7 Fate of historic chimes up for decision soon
• TNT 7/9/1957 p.1 Chimes on City Hall may be stilled forever
• TNT 3/13/1958 p.1 City's old records will be fed to the flames
• TNT 7/29/1958 p.14 City Hall demolition plan sought
• TNT 3/15/1959 p.C14 Council sets last meeting in City Hall
• TNT 3/17/1959 p.1 Council ends 66-year era in Old City Hall (interior il)
• TNT 3/18/1959 City Hall clock to toll no more
• TNT 3/31/1959 p.13 Whom will bells toll for? - That is the question
• TNT 4/7/1959 p.C15 Old City Hall opened its doors in 1893: City Hall chimes to toll no more (il)
• TNT 4/28/1959 p.1 Demolition to be fate of City Hall
• TNT 6/1/1959 p.11 Save City Hall petition filed
• TNT 6/2/1959 ... plea fails to move council
• TNT 6/14/1959 p.C15 Plan to save Old City Hall drawn up
• TNT 6/16/1959 p.1 90 days given group to save Old City Hall
• TNT 7/5/1959 p.B1 Emily tells of heat, pushes City Hall plan
• TNT 7/30/1959 p.A1 Come the revolution? No, despite the red flag (Soviet Union flag found flying over bldg.) (il)
• TNT 9/22/1959 p.1 Old City Hall gets reprieve of 6 months
• TNT 1/17/1960 p.D10 Engineer urges that Old City Hall be saved (Dr. Arthur R. Anderson)
• TNT 3/1/1960 p.1 City Hall clock may have hands amputated (clock time stuck at 3:35)
• TNT 3/2/1960 p.A13 ... proposed as arts high school
• TNT 3/3/1960 p.A1 Look Ma, no hands (il)
• TNT 3/5/1960 p.3 ... may become civic center
• TNT 9/21/1960 p.A1 Council asked to convert City Hall into school
• TNT 1/11/1961 College use of City Hall under study
• TNT 4/26/1961 p.A1 Old City Hall reprieved another year
• TNT 5/14/1961 p.D1,D8 Allied Arts of Tacoma (sketch)
• TNT 2/21/1962 p.C18 Junior college site proposed by Easterday (proposal to join Old CIty Hall with the Elks Temple by a bridge over Commerce St. and use bldgs. for a community college)
• TNT 4/25/1962 p.A1 Old City Hall chimes soon will ring again (il)
• TNT 5/20/1962 p.A9 Clock repair cost: $13,000
• TNT 5/22/1962 p.1 Chimes sound again, clock is running, too
• TNT 5/23/1962 p.A4 Council sets hours for ringing of clock bells
• TNT 5/27/1962 p.A1 City Hall clock, bells beautiful, says expert restoring works (il)
• TNT 6/22/1962 p.1 Puts on new face (il)
• TNT 6/26/1962 p.A9 Clock tower no longer timeless (il)
• TNT 8/1/1962 p.A3 Door from "politician" cell in old jail sold (purchased by Steve Pease) (interior il)
• TNT 8/15/1962 p.A10 Bells toll again on night shift
• TNT 8/18/1962 p.2 City officials unhook Old City Hall chimes
• TNT 4/5/1963 p.A7 Old City Hall clock now back on time
• TNT 4/29/1963 p.1 City Hall clock confused, or may be tired
• TNT 4/30/1963 p.12 ... clock back in step with DST
• TNT 7/30/1963 p.1 Witch on the City Hall clock? (il)
• TNT 11/3/1963 p.C16 Welcome lights mark rehabilitation effort (il)
• TNT 6/24/1964 p.B12 Old City Hall urged as museum
• TNT 9/20/1964 p.D12 Clock tower offers challenge, inspiration to contest entrants 027.4797 T219C (il) 071 N213N Vol.I p.l6 (il) 133.109797 D97G p.83 133.109797 M724W p.32 (il) 398 M145G p.145 The bell-ringing ghost of Tacoma's Old City Hall 720.28 T119TR p.33 (rehab c.1980-83) 720.979 Si11E 917.9778 C498C (il) 979.7 N812 July 1891 p.42 (sketch) 979.72 H91 Vol.II p.167-70 979.778 K355T p.51 (interior il) 979.7788 AL566T p.48,49 (il) City Directory (1892) p.49 (sketch) NWR 133.129795 L942N Northwest Know-How Haunts, p. 23
• Year Built: 1893
• Decade Built: 1890s
• On City State National Historic Register
• Style: Italian Renaissance

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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• 625 COMMERCE ST, TACOMA