80 images. Tacoma Hotel McKim, Mead & White / Stanford White, arch. Wm. Whidden, Supt. of Construction F.W. Lewis, contr. -opened 8/8/1884 -destroyed by fire 10/17/1935 -plans for proposed remodeling/addition by Kirtland Cutter, arch. (designed c.1919-1922) on file at the Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Spokane -plans for remodeling in 1924 by Sutton, Whitney & Dugan, arch. at TPL SEE ALSO: TPL Catalog/Clipping File
TDL 5/18/1884 Tacoma Hotel
TDL 8/9/1884 The Tacoma; formal opening of this magnificient house (full page article)
TDL 1/29/1888 p.4 (addition by Farrell & Darmer, arch.)
TDL 9/30/1889 p.5 The Tacoma is sold
TDL 3/8/1890 p.5 (addition by Proctor & Dennis, arch.)
TDL 4/30/1890 p.5 The Tacoma Hotel pet (fawn)
TDL 8/10/1890 p.12 Jack's a jolly bear
TDL 1/1/1891 p.12 (addition)
TDL 5/25/1891 p.5 Jack on a tear
TDL 5/31/1891 p.7 "The Tacoma" addition
TDL 3/18/1892 p.3 Shot Jack the Bear
TDL 3/19/1892 p.4 The funeral of Jack
TDL 7/7/1892 p.3 A successor to old Jack
TDL 12/7/1898 p.3 Hotel bear is no more
TDL 3/26/1899 p.2 Hotel Tacoma new again
TDL 7/29/1906 p.16 (full page feature after remodeling) (il)
TDL 7/21/1907 p.17 Tacoma Hotel has unique time piece
TDL 7/26/1908 p.5 City's popular summer hotel (description of the veranda, etc.)
TDL 9/16/1913 First boat house being torn down; built 31 years ago and occupied by Stanford White's architects
TDL 3/29/1914 p.11 (il of employees)
TDL 7/8/1923 p.E8 First lady liked hotel accomodations (visit of President Harding) (interior il)
TDL 9/22/1923 p.1 Will spend big sum on hotel here
TDL 2/5/1924 p.1 $100,000 to be spent on the Tacoma
TDL 4/30/1924 p.1 Hotel here will change hands May 1
TDL 5/4/1924 p.E10 Architects start plans for hotel (remodeling by Sutton, Whitney & Dugan, arch.)
TDL 5/18/1924 p.C6 (R.M. Grant, contr. for remodeling)
TNT 5/27/1924 p.2 Los Angeles newsboys sing way through Northwest (il)
TDL 7/6/1924 p.B4 (il c.1892)
TDL 4/8/1925 p.7 (ad,interior il) p.8...now renovated (il)
TDL 4/26/1925 p.A4 Popular inn of Tacoma dressed up
TDL 5/3/1925 p.A4 (full page ad,interior il) p.A8 Hotel opening to recall past
TNT 5/13/1925 p.1,4 Tacoma Hotel boasts own golf links (il)
TDL 7/5/1925 p.E8 Tacoma hotel is to have addition
TDL 10/3/1925 p.1 Addition to Tacoma Hotel is discussed
TDL 4/12/1927 Sec.III p.4 Beauty of hotel famed over land
TDL 9/10/1927 p.2 Tacoma Hotel in big program; million-dollar expansion is already under way
TDL 1/26/1928 p.1 Improvements are planned for city's 2 biggest hotels
TDL 4/10/1928 Sec.III p.4 Tacoma Hotel in big program
TDL 4/9/1929 Gravure Sec. p.3 (il)
TDL 2/9/1932 p.B8... has been host to 7 presidents, other notables, Gravure Sec. p.2 (il)
TDL 5/29/1934 p.C6 Opening was gala affair (il)
TDL 7/24/1934 p.1 Fine rum seized in club raid ("Crescent Club" in basement)
TDL 10/18/1935 p.1 Tacoma's most famous landmark reduced to ruins; fear bodies in fire ruins of Tacoma Hotel (il) p.12 Webber mourns hotel's passing
TDL 10/19/1935 p.3 Hotel's walls to come down
TDL 10/20/1935 p.A2 Blast wall at Tacoma Hotel
TDL 10/21/1935 p.1 Expect to open A Street today
TDL 12/8/1935 p.A11 Fire insurance pays! (il)
TDL 3/8/1936 p.B7 Study plans for new Tacoma Hotel
TDL 11/1/1936 p.A1 No plan for old Tacoma Hotel site
TDL 2/6/1937 p.10 Bond up for removal of hotel ruins
TDL 5/2/1937 p.B9 (ruins entirely removed, parking lot and service station planned for site)
TNT 7/27/1937 p.16 Old St. Mark's being moved ... (mention that stones from hotel ruins to be used in reconstructing St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church at 3601 No. Gove St.)
TNT 8/15/1937 p.B6 Build new parking lot
TNT 11/7/1937 p.B8 Handsome home uses Tacoma Hotel stones (the Charles F. Wolfe residence at Browns Point)
TNT 8/6/1950 Memories of old Tacoma Hotel recalled (il)
TNT 4/7/1953 p.C13 Glories of the past died in hotel blaze (il of fire)
TNT 5/30/1954 Famed Tacoma bear known all over U.S. (il of Jack)
TNT 12/9/1956 p.B12 "City's finest" (il c.1884)
TNT 10/12/1958 p.B3 Tacoma remembers embers (il of pen and ink sketch by Nelson J. Morrison)
TNT 1/29/1961 p.D1,D2 Treasures of past provide decor in homes of today
TNT 10/11/1970 Fireman recalls Tacoma Hotel blaze (il)
TNT 11/18/1973 Area landmarks (sketch)
TNT 5/5/1974 Time Machine
TNT 10/27/1974 p.A3 Tacoma Hotel "lives" again (il of archaeological dig by Gary Fuller Reese)
TNT 10/1/1976 p.A3 Earth will close in again on famous Tacoma Hotel (il)
TNT 12/9/1979 A price bound to please (dining at the hotel) (il)
TNT 8/16/1981 Time Machine
TNT 11/1/1992 p.H1 At the height of civic glory (il) Senior Scene 12/2012 p.6 Railroadman paved way for exceptional hotel T.Daily Index 7/29/2014 p.1 Tacoma Historical Society exhibit spotlights lost Tacoma Hotel landmark
TNT 8/7/2014 p.A1 Exhibit recalls Tacoma Hotel's grandeur (il) 363.37 T142O p.87 Death of a hotel (il) 647.94 V231T Tacoma Hotel : a research paper. Valbert, Edwin. 720.28 Su87A 720.92 C981M p.180-185 (il,interior il) 720.92 W585B p.97 (mention of Stanford White visit to Tacoma) 720.973 V465S Vol.II p.374 (il) 917.97 W52W 1907 p.23 (interior il) 917.9778 V679V (il) 973 G863Lm p.212 (il) 979.72 H91 Vol.I p.328 917.972 T11H Hotel Tacoma, Tacoma, Washington [Tacoma Hotel Co., Inc.] Print at TPL (DR. Royal Grove Collection)
TNT 10/19/2008 p.B1 Grand Hotel Reduced to ash (il) 647.94 V231T Tacoma Hotel : A research paper. Valbert, Edwin 709.795 K876A p.108 The arts and crafts movement in the Pacific Northwest. Kreisman, Lawrence. Tacoma's Haunted History 979.7788AL566T p.64,65(il)
80 images. Built circa 1877 Otis Sprague -address approximate -house later moved to So. 12th & A St. to make way for the Tacoma Hotel West Shore Jan. 1883 (sketch)
