742-50 PACIFIC AVE, TACOMA

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742-50 PACIFIC AVE, TACOMA

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  • 2 images. Fife Hotel / Fife Block Farrell & Darmer, arch. Dougan & Bringham, contr. -demolished in 1925 -site includes 741-775 Commerce St., 201-11 So. 9th St.
  • TDL 8/7/1887 p.4 Fife's big block
  • TDL 8/21/1887 p.8 Fife's big block
  • TDL 8/23/1887 p.1 Finest structure on the North Pacific Coast
  • TDL 1/1/1888 p.6 permits
  • TDL 2/12/1888 p.3 Splendid new hotel
  • TDL 7/24/1888 p.3 From the top of the Hotel Fife
  • TDL 9/2/1889 p.5 Ready for a fire
  • TDL 2/3/1890 p.1 Fire fiends at work
  • TDL 3/6/1890 p.3 Putting in fire escapes
  • TDL 9/23/1890 p.5 Seventy-five thousand guests (in two years)
  • TDL 4/22/1893 p.3 (alterations by Farrell & Sherman, arch.)
  • TNT 8/22/1922 Do you remember? (il c.1890 of Wynkoop Drug Co. at 768 Pacific Ave.) 917.972 Sp4 (il) 917.972 T11Cta p.49 (sketch) 917.972 T119L Ledger Chamber of Commerce Edition 1909 p.76 (il) 979.72 H91 Vol.I p .422 ----- Hotel Donnelly Plans for proposed hotel bu Sutton, Whitney & Dugan at TPL, digitized
  • TDL 12/9/1897 p.1 Fife Hotel is leased (by John Donnelly)
  • TDL 2/10/1898 p.3 Hotel Donnelly opens; new house is ready to receive its first guests; complete transformation of the old Fife Building has taken place ... TNL 2/4/1917 p.6 Fire due to thieves? TNL 1/13/1918 p.A5 Plans building of 500 rooms after war is over (A. Miller purchases bldg.)
  • TDL 6/2/1918 p.B5 (remodeling by Hurley-Mason Co., contr.)
  • TDL 2/1/1925 p.A13 (bldg. to be demolished for make way for the Motoramp Garage) (SEE: 745 Commerce St.)
  • TDL 2/22/1925 p.A13 Donnelly to be vacated by March 1
  • TDL 3/2/1925 p.7 Start wrecking Donnelly today
  • TDL 3/18/1925 p.2 Another landmark passes into oblivion (il of hotel sign over Pacific Ave. being removed)
  • TNT 2/8/1937 Had first movie house in this city (Searchlight Movie Palace opened in 1898 at 744 Pacific Ave. by Sally Chandler Sloan) ("first moving picture house in Tacoma")
  • TNT 4/19/1959 Emily discovers more Tacoma lore in Capitol (article on the Searchlight Movie Palace)
  • Year Built: 1887
  • Decade Built: 1880s
  • Demolished

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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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