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917 PACIFIC AVE, TACOMA
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- 1 image. Provident Bldg. Henry Longstreth / Provident Life & Trust Co., builder George W. Bullard, arch. Frank Snyder, contr. Jacobson, Foreman -steel, stone, brick and cement -six stories, fireproof -floors of steel with self-adjustment for expansion -renamed the Security Bldg. in 1953 -renamed the Provident Bldg. in 2006 -site includes 913-19 Pacific Ave. -occupants included Ghilarducci's California Florists (City Directory 1926-1947)
- TDL 1/18/1903 p.17 Spring boom in local real estate is fairly launched
- TDL 3/1/1903 p.23 Week's building news T.Evening News 3/4/1903 p.5 Will erect six story building (sketch)
- TDL 3/8/1903 p.13 Will be six stories
- TDL 3/15/1903 p.15 Week's building news foundation work)
- TDL 5/17/1903 p.17 Big block progressing rapidly
- TDL 7/26/1903 p.16 Provident Building up
- TDL 8/9/1903 p.18 Building boom
- TDL 12/20/1903 p.16 New Provident Building (history, list of occupants) (il) TDN Annual 1/18/1904 p.49 (il) TDN 6/29/1905 (il)
- TDL 8/2/1908 p.7 Daylight crime puzzles police
- TDL 7/7/1912 p.33 (il)
- TDL 1/29/1924 p.1 Slashed in attack by negro ... when janitor resents name "Rastus" (hard copy only)
- TDL 4/8/1925 Suppl. (il)
- TDL 3/25/1926 p.12 Cracksmen flee with unexploded charge in safe (at the Carlyle Cafeteria) (hard copy only)
- TDL 3/9/1927 p.5 Local cafeteria to reopen today (Carlyle Cafeteria) (hard copy only)
- TDL 2/1/1931 p.D8 Miniature golf free to tenants
- TNT 8/24/1938 p.6 Joe E. Griffin's new restaurant ... formally opens Wednesday (at former the location of the Carlyle Cafeteria) (full page ad, interior il) (hard copy only) T.Times 8/24/1938 p.7 New Tacoma restaurant in grand opening today (interior il)
- TNT 3/30/1939 p.12 Cafeteria open Friday (opening of the Hob Nob Cafeteria) p.20 (ad) (hard copy only)
- TNT 8/1/1939 p.5 Modern note in new cafe (interior il of Powers Cafe) (hard copy only)
- TNT 10/5/1939 p.12 Loughlen's Cafe opens (hard copy only)
- TNT 1/31/1944 p.1 Provident Bldg. sold
- TNT 1/7/1945 p.A1 Downtown bldgs. sold (hard copy only)
- TNT 2/25/1949 p.1 Business offices looted
- TNT 10/19/1950 p.B3 ... opens paint center (full page ad for Sherwin-Williams Paints at 919 Pacific Ave.)
- TNT 6/19/1951 p.3 $485,000 in work OKed (new elevator and shaft by the MacDonald Building Co., contr.)
- TNT 9/21/1952 p.A10 Ancient steam elevator is doomed (remodeling by A. Gordon Lumm, arch. and MacDonald Construction Co., contr.) (interior il) 338.973 P83Pt 1925 p.8 (il) 917.97 W52W 1905 p.39 (il) 917.972 Am35S p.4 (il) 917.972 T119N Tacoma New Herald 1905 p.19 (il) 979.72 T11T p.50 ----- Security Bldg.
- TNT 3/29/1953 p.B13 Security Building improved by face lifting
- TNT 3/1/1954 p.7 State (Savings & Loan Assoc) under same roof after lapse or 42 years (il)
- TNT 7/18/1954 p.C15 Security Bldg. city pioneer
- TNT 2/15/1956 p.A7 Ward opens store ... ( Montgomery Ward Catalog Store at 919 Pacific Ave.)
- TNT 9/30/1956 p.A13 Rich, penniless Tacomans consult offices of Family, Child Service (located in Room 220) (interior il)
- TNT 9/8/1960 p.1 Tipsy bandit gets $45 at downtown office (Federal Finance Co.)
- TNT 10/28/1962 p.A8 ... approved for fallout shelters
- TNT 7/26/1965 p.17 Burglar prowls 15 offices in Security Building
- TNT 7/27/1965 p.2 14 offices ransacked
- TNT 6/9/1968 p.D21 Firm slates open house (Sparkman & McLean Co.)
- TNT 12/21/1975 p.G5 Security Building due for facelift (remodeling by Charles Gilman, arch. and Derald E. Martin, contr.) (sketch)
- TNT 6/19/1977 p.E4 Indian symbols for new offices (interior il)
- TNT 9/3/1994 p.C8 U-W Tacoma adds space
- TNT 10/7/1999 p.D1 Salon's success downtown shows the way for other entrepreneurs (interior il of Salon Metro & Day Spa at 913 Pacific Ave., including partial il of mural by artist Denise Schmidt) Business Examiner 1/10/2005 p.15 Tacoma designer discovers that even best-laid plans go oft awry (remodeling for Rusty George Design) ----- Provident Bldg.
- TNT 11/22/2006 p.D1 Downtown Tacoma's Provident ... LinMar LLC (of San Diego) plans to renovate the building and give it its original name, Provident Building (il) T.Weekly 11/30/2006 p.D1 Tacoma Security Building to get old name Business Examiner 12/11/2006 p.23 Security Building sale marks entry of new player downtown (sketch of proposed restoration)
- TNT 9/25/2007 p.D1 What's that? (remodeling/ restoration by Pivot Architecture of Eugene, OR, arch. and Rushforth Taylor Construction Co., contr.) (il) T.Daily Index 2/24/2014 p.1 Tacoma Historical Society to open exhibit center on Pacific Avenue
- TNT 3/6/2014 p.A8 Historical Society signs lease in Provident Building
- TNT 3/14/2014 p.A1 Tacoma's history now has a place to live; Tacoma Historical Society ... to settle in Pacific Avenue building (interior il) T.Weekly 4/18/2014 p.B4 Historic Homes of Tacoma Tour (il)
- Year Built: 1903
- Decade Built: 1900s
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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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