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930 TACOMA AVE S, TACOMA

• 15 images. County-City Bldg. A. Gordon Lumm, arch. Macdonald Bldg. Co., contr. -aluminum and glass -12 stories, 167 ft. -plans at TPL -approved by voters 11/4/1952 -construction started 7/25/1956 -dedicated 4/10/1959 -bldg. debt retired in July 1977 -addition (court facilities wing) built in 1988 -metal detectors installed at entrances in 1994 -for the City and Pierce County Jail SEE: 701 NOLLMEYER LANE SEE ALSO: TPL Catalog/Clipping File
• TDL 4/20/1928 p.1 City-County building idea is suggested
• TDL 9/29/1929 p.A4 City-County Building seen as future Tacoma project
• TDL 6/13/1937 p.A1 Does city need new city hall (sketch of bldg. proposed for site)
• TNT 5/2/1939 p.1 Big public building reviewed; need for County-City structure argued
• TNT 9/11/1949 p.A1 Officials again talk City- County Building
• TNT 11/23/1949 p.1 Plan bond issue for city hall
• TNT 12/17/1949 p.3 Fawcett appeals for new building
• TNT 1/22/1950 p.1 New County-City building favored (plan endorsed by the Tacoma Metal Trades Council)
• TNT 6/2/1950 p.D1 City-County Bldg. group enlarged
• TNT 6/22/1950 p.D4 Drop city hall plan
• TNT 12/21/1951 p.1 City-County Bldg. on ballot to be aim
• TNT 1/29/1952 p.16 County-City site sought
• TNT 2/27/1952 p.6 County-City project up
• TNT 3/26/1952 p.24 Architect fee fixed
• TNT 4/2/1952 p.A9 City joins with County T.Reporter 8/6/1952 p.2 Architects ready drawings for City-County Building T.Reporter 8/8/1952 p.1 City-County Building plans win approval (sketch of proposal) T.Star 8/14/1952 County committee being named (sketch of proposal)
• TNT 8/14/1952 p.30 C-C Building advisers picked
• TNT 8/19/1952 p.1 Lay committee to plan ...
• TNT 8/26/1952 p.1 County-City site to await election
• TNT 9/3/1952 p.14 Ask choice of 38th St.
• TNT 9/5/1952 p.18 County-City issue cited (il of bldg. committee chair Arthur H. Brouse) p.29 Would use present site
• TNT 9/6/1952 p.1 Site choice delay urged
• TNT 9/12/1952 p.1 Put civic building on ballot
• TNT 9/18/1952 p.C9 County-City building on ballot Nov. 4 T.Star 9/21/1952 A.H. Brouse is chosen head of lay group T.Star 9/4/1952 Chamber of Commerce favors bonds
• TNT 9/5/1952 County-City issue cited
• TNT 9/12/1952 Put civic building on ballot T.Star 9/25/1952 Money will pay structure cost on level site
• TNT 10/3/1952 p.D10 County-City plan urged
• TNT 10/5/1952 p.B5 Vote Yes (ad)
• TNT 10/10/1952 p.4 Minute Men urge vote
• TNT 10/12/1952 p.C13 Tacoma architects present plans of proposed County-City Bldg. (sketch)
• TNT 10/28/1952 p.15 City-County bldg. backed
• TNT 11/3/1952 p.17 Vote yes (ad)
• TNT 11/6/1952 p.24 County-City Building
• TNT 11/18/1952 p.1 Speed action on site ...
• TNT 11/29/1952 p.3 Old location urged for new city hall
• TNT 12/9/1952 p.1 County-City Building site "selling" difficult T.Star 12/11/1952 Site sponsors must submit location data
• TNT 12/21/1952 p.A1 Suggest sites galore ...
• TNT 1/13/1953 p.7 No sites yet submitted for building
• TNT 2/3/1953 p.1 Ten sites are submitted
• TNT 2/10/1953 Ten County, City Bldg. sites listed T.Star 2/19/1953 ... project may look like this (sketch)
• TNT 2/22/1953 p.A1 Which of these sites will win County-City Building (map)
• TNT 2/26/1953 p.A1 County-City site hearing under way T.Star 2/26/1953 (full page ad for So. 38th St. site)
• TNT 2/27/1953 p.1 No incidents at hearing ...
• TNT 3/2/1953 p.13 Browns Point "wins" as county building site
• TNT 3/24/1953 p.1 So. 38th and Pine site backers urge action
• TNT 3/26/1953 p.A1 Suggest site near hospital T.Star 3/26/1953 Yards and yards of cards (il of petition from So. 38th St. site backers)
• TNT 5/4/1953 p.17 ... survey favors three sites
• TNT 5/5/1953 p.1 Market St. - Tacoma Ave. site leading
• TNT 5/7/1953 p.A1 Planners pick C-C Bldg. sites
• TNT 5/10/1953 p.A1 Architect to be hired soon ...
• TNT 5/15/1953 p.A11 Labor backs No.1 site
• TNT 5/18/1953 p.1 County still delays architect selection p.4 Buried again? (ad)
• TNT 5/19/1953 p.A1 Choice of architect is held in abeyance
• TNT 5/20/1953 p.1 Squabble on architect still stalls site choice
• TNT 5/22/1953 p.A1 Lumm named architect for new C-C building
• TNT 5/23/1953 p.1 Incensed over "deal" allegation; Tacoma Society of Architects condemns statement ...
• TNT 5/25/1953 p.1 Mayor hits Co. board for "deal" on architect p.12 Police want in C-C Bldg.
• TNT 5/26/1953 p.1 Gleason remains mum on meaning of "deal"
• TNT 5/30/1953 p.1 Builders want County heads to reconsider
• TNT 6/2/1953 p.2 Council favors local firms on C-C Building p.15 Site approval is next step
• TNT 6/8/1953 p.4 Planner hits C-C Building site ratings p.5 Not dead yet! (ad)
• TNT 6/15/1953 p.1 Lumm contract signed as architects fume
• TNT 7/3/1953 p.1 Pierce County rejects proposal of appraisers
• TNT 7/22/1953 p.8 County, City meet on bldg. T.Star 7/23/1953 (full page ad demanding vote /election on site selection)
• TNT 7/24/1953 p.10 Bratrud prods County Dads on C-C Bldg.
• TNT 8/13/1953 p.A1 Three sites appraised
• TNT 9/1/1953 p.1 Legality of joint title questioned
• TNT 9/2/1953 p.A2 Auditor fears plane expense is not legal
• TNT 9/5/1953 p.3 Architects' trip expenses ruled legal
• TNT 9/24/1953 p.A10 C-C Building report bared
• TNT 9/28/1953 p.1 Lumm presents survey of major C-C buildings
• TNT 10/9/1953 p.1 New city hall plan offered by utilities
• TNT 10/19/1953 p.1 County still waits on site for C-C structure
• TNT 10/21/1953 p.C4 J.W. Slayden asks action p.C10 New flag back at courthouse
• TNT 10/22/1953 p.A8 Morris asks for action
• TNT 10/27/1953 p.1 Building site decision due November 10 T.Star 10/29/1953 Suit looms over choice of slum site
• TNT 11/10/1953 p.1 Pick present Courthouse site: Four square blocks selected
• TNT 11/12/1953 p.A1 CC Building will face Tacoma Av.; church is problem
• TNT 11/15/1953 p.A1 County-City Building site (aerial il)
• TNT 11/25/1953 p.2 Joint County-City jail seen as real tax-saver
• TNT 12/7/1953 p.1 C-C bond sale bids called
• TNT 12/8/1953 p.1 County soon to buy land
• TNT 1/7/1954 p.D3 C-C Building cost division is submitted
• TNT 1/11/1954 p.1 C-C bond bids to be opened
• TNT 1/13/1954 p.1 Bidding error loses deal on county bonds
• TNT 1/20/1954 p.1 Officials at odds on new C-C Building
• TNT 1/24/1954 p.A1 County and city differ on building
• TNT 1/26/1954 p.1 Council still balks at plan for C-C Bldg.
• TNT 1/28/1954 p.A1 City-County impasse over building ends
• TNT 2/4/1954 County-City writing camp (signing of first of 6,000 bonds)
• TNT 2/9/1954 p.1 ... site value set at $600,000
• TNT 2/10/1954 p.1 Bond signing job concluded
• TNT 3/11/1954 p.A1 City, County to review joint building plans
• TNT 3/12/1954 p.1 C-C Building plans to have $5,000 survey
• TNT 3/14/1954 p.A1 $612,000 is offered for co-city site
• TNT 3/16/1954 p.1 City demands new plan on C-C Building
• TNT 3/30/1954 p.12 Garden clubs demand space
• TNT 4/6/1954 p.15 More plans sought for City-County Building
• TNT 4/12/1954 p.1 Council to get new plans
• TNT 4/13/1954 p.1 County-City site property condemned
• TNT 4/14/1954 p.A1 Experts scan County-City Building plans
• TNT 4/15/1954 p.D4 C-C Building review on
• TNT 4/16/1954 p.1 ... plans OKd by experts
• TNT 4/18/1954 p.A1 Here is basic plan ... (sketch)
• TNT 4/19/1954 p.14 County board OKs survey on building p.15 County-City site owners will meet
• TNT 4/20/1954 p.1 Council raps building plan T.Star 4/22/1954 Owners protest C-C offer
• TNT 4/27/1954 p.1 Council still bitter over joint tenancy
• TNT 5/3/1954 p.1 Basic plan of C-C Building officially OKd
• TNT 5/4/1954 p.1 Showdown due as City Dads reject plans
• TNT 5/11/1954 p.1 City eyes utilities building
• TNT 5/12/1954 p.B3 City clarifies stand on building controversy
• TNT 5/19/1954 p.14 City-County debate mild
• TNT 5/20/1954 p.A1 End hinted to County, City row
• TNT 5/21/1954 p.A1 County-City feud eases in new plan
• TNT 5/22/1954 p.5 Sprinker tells County's side in building issue
• TNT 5/23/1954 p.A1 County-City differences on building unresolved (sketch) p.A3 Walk in rain likely at Co.-City Building
• TNT 5/26/1954 p.C10 New delay on C-C structure
• TNT 5/29/1954 p.1 Mayor deplores lack of County cooperation
• TNT 5/30/1954 p.A7 City hall tower might add C-C Building touch (sketch)
• TNT 6/2/1954 p.9 Judges dislike changed plan ...
• TNT 6/3/1954 p.A1 County offers building plan
• TNT 6/4/1954 p.D8 City officials cool to new building plan
• TNT 6/15/1954 p.3 County-City Bldg. cost set at $5,994,300
• TNT 6/22/1954 p.15 Council asks for space in south wing
• TNT 6/25/1954 p.1 Separate wing for courts held essential
• TNT 6/27/1954 p.A1 City, county anxiously await new building OK (il of A. Gordon Lumm)
• TNT 6/28/1954 p.1 City told separate wing out of question: Jobless workerspin hopes on C-C structure
• TNT 6/29/1954 p.A1 County Dads call C-C delay "political": Battin seeks County post; hits C-C plan
• TNT 6/30/1954 p.A1 Building delays cost taxpayers $173 daily
• TNT 7/1/1954 p.C12 County votes cash to buy building site
• TNT 7/7/1954 p.1 City offers to buy wing of C-C Bldg.
• TNT 7/11/1954 p.A10 Candidate's new plan: multi-winged building
• TNT 7/13/1954 p.1 City launches plan to build own annex
• TNT 7/22/1954 p.A6 Commissioner derides City architect plan
• TNT 7/27/1954 p.1 County owns 1/3 of C-C site
• TNT 8/10/1954 p.1 City to meet County again on building
• TNT 8/16/1954 p.1 County-City confer over new building
• TNT 10/12/1954 p.6 Know the facts (campaign ad for Battin for commissioner)
• TNT 10/17/1954 p.B7 Know the true facts
• TNT 10/19/1954 p.6 Know the true facts
• TNT 10/27/1954 p.B5 Dr. Battin gives reply
• TNT 11/7/1954 p.A1 Mid-1955 seen for Co-City Building start
• TNT 11/16/1954 p.1 Condemnation of Co.-City site starts
• TNT 11/17/1954 p.A1 Jury delayed in survey of building site
• TNT 11/18/1954 p.A1County nears end of court suits for site
• TNT 11/19/1954 p.A1 Jury to rule on site value
• TNT 11/25/1954 p.A1 Jury grants $150,000 for church site
• TNT 11/28/1954 p.A1 Razing next City- County site chore
• TNT 12/21/1954 p.1 "Stalling" on C-C Building lease charged
• TNT 12/26/1954 p.A17 This is it (sketch)
• TNT 12/30/1954 p.1 County-City dads agree on tenancy
• TNT 1/12/1955 p.11 Jail chapel under study
• TNT 1/17/1955 p.2 New problems bobbing up on C-C structure
• TNT 1/25/1955 p.1 Building site must be clear
• TNT 2/7/1955 p.1 ... demolition bids called
• TNT 2/25/1955 p.C2 City, County reach accord on building
• TNT 3/8/1955 p.1 Demolition bids opened ...
• TNT 3/9/1955 p.1 Tacoma firm gets contract (Coast Contractors to demolish bldgs. on site)
• TNT 3/15/1955 p.14 Warns against pilfering at building site
• TNT 3/19/1955 Co-City site demolition is starting (il)
• TNT 3/20/1955 p.A18 Co-City site demolition in starting (il of contr. Walter McHugh of Coast Contractors)
• TNT 4/3/1955 p.A10 Bucket bites deep for County-City Building (il of demolition project)
• TNT 4/5/1955 p.1 County, City still talking office layout
• TNT 4/10/1955 p.C13 County-City Building (sketch)
• TNT 4/20/1955 p.29 County lease proposal put under knife
• TNT 4/24/1955 p.C7 One down, six to go (il of demolition project)
• TNT 4/27/1955 p.A4 C-C leasing arrangement agreed upon County Officer May 1955 p.103 New County-City Building for Pierce County, Tacoma, Washington by Harry Sprinker
• TNT 5/8/1955 p.A1 Destruction before construction (il of demolition project) p.A8 War scene? No County-City Bldg site (il)
• TNT 6/12/1955 p.A1 Public buys "anything" as buildings razed (aerial il of demolition project)
• TNT 6/16/1955 p.A8 County-City lease Okayed
• TNT 6/19/1955 p.C14 National Publication tells of C-C Building (County OfficerMagazine, May 1955)
• TNT 7/26/1955 p.1 County and City agree on tenancy
• TNT 8/1/1955 p.2 County ratifies building lease
• TNT 8/16/1955 p.25 City, County to sign pact
• TNT 8/17/1955 p.A1 Officials sign lease pact on C-C structure
• TNT 8/28/1955 p.A1 No hurricane - County-City site clearance (il of demolition project)
• TNT 9/11/1955 p.A1 (il of demolition project)
• TNT 9/17/1955 p.1 Down it goes (last bldg. on site, Central Lutheran Church at 1001 So. G St., is demolished) (il)
• TNT 12/30/1955 p.1 Construction to start month after award; revised architect's drawing (sketch)
• TNT 2/7/1956 p.14 Tough steel picked fo new jail bars
• TNT 2/21/1956 p.1 ... bids opened
• TNT 2/22/1956 p.1 C-C Bldg. bids exceed 8 millions
• TNT 2/23/1956 p.A1 Sprinker determined to build
• TNT 2/27/1956 p.1 City may pull out of CC Building
• TNT 2/28/1956 p.4 City Council has ball in CC Building problem
• TNT 3/1/1956 Officials quiz Lumm ...
• TNT 3/2/1956 City Dads to reappraise bldg. dilemma
• TNT 3/5/1956 p.1 One negative vote may halt C-C Building plan
• TNT 3/6/1956 p.25 Architect to consider fee on building
• TNT 3/7/1956 p.A1 Lumm, County agree on fee for building
• TNT 3/11/1956 p.A1 County-City Building can and should be constructed now, public officials declare (sketch)
• TNT 3/12/1956 p.1 Building fund ordinance to be introduced
• TNT 3/13/1956 p.1 Council argues building riddle; City fathers wax hot on measure
• TNT 3/14/1956 p.A1 County plan for bldg. "dead duck"
• TNT 3/16/1956 p.1 County-City Building is fact-theory problem
• TNT 3/18/1956 p.A1 Council due to vote on building tomorrow
• TNT 3/20/1956 p.1 Council rejects C-C building plan; financing ordinance voted down (il of demolition project)
• TNT 3/21/1956 p.A1 Port aid on CC Building to be asked
• TNT 3/22/1956 p.A1 County rejects building bids; Port offer is illegal says law
• TNT 3/24/1956 p.1 Tollefson's bldg. plan wins favor
• TNT 3/26/1956 City C-C "out" under study
• TNT 3/28/1956 p.A1 City breaks silence ...
• TNT 3/29/1956 p.A1 "Secret 6" on council get blast
• TNT 3/30/1956 p.1 Councilmen deny secret sessions held
• TNT 4/12/1956 p.6 State help on C-C Building not sufficient
• TNT 4/24/1956 p.1 C-C Building dilemma solved; use present funds, City Dads told
• TNT 4/26/1956 p.A1 Council approves building
• TNT 5/8/1956 p.1 Lumm ordered to redesign ...
• TNT 5/28/1956 p.1 Second call for C-C bids
• TNT 6/3/1956 p.A1 County-City Building to be started in July
• TNT 7/3/1956 p.2 City-County jail plan to be surveyed
• TNT 7/10/1956 p.1 Award to be signed tomorrow
• TNT 7/11/1956 p.A1 Contract on C-C Building is awarded
• TNT 7/17/1956 p.1 Tollefson asks new bonds for C-C Building
• TNT 7/24/1956 p.1 City okays CC Building lease pact
• TNT 7/25/1956 p.A1 C-C Building job starts (il)
• TNT 8/7/1956 p.1 City Council votes to add 2 stories to C-C Building
• TNT 8/8/1956 p.A1 C-C Building to be taller
• TNT 8/12/1956 p.B2 C-C Building site readied (il)
• TNT 8/14/1956 p.1 City, County to confer on building wing
• TNT 8/17/1956 p.1 County-City proposal goes back for study
• TNT 9/4/1956 p.1 Bond issue favored for C-C Building wing
• TNT 9/8/1956 p.3 Committee takes pulse on C-C wing
• TNT 9/14/1956 p.1 C-C edifice bond issue on ballot
• TNT 9/30/1956 p.A6 Just the beginning (il of site)
• TNT 10/14/1956 p.A1 Still going up (il under construction)
• TNT 10/21/1956 Voters will decide (sketch)
• TNT 10/25/1956 ... jail space estimated
• TNT 10/31/1956 p.A15 Voters will decide (sketch)
• TNT 11/4/1956 p.B9 Vote "Yes" on County Proposition No. 1
• TNT 11/18/1956 p.A10 C-C Building rising (il under construction)
• TNT 11/19/1956 p.A1 Survives 40-foot drop (car crashes into construction site)
• TNT 12/16/1956 p.A1 C-C Building progresses (il under construction)
• TNT 12/21/1956 p.8 State asks County plans for building Tacoma Daily Index 12/10/2020 p.3 Three new courtrooms and associated spaces completed for County City Building district court
• Year Built: 1959
• Decade Built: 1950s

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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• 930 TACOMA AVE S, TACOMA