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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
A2457-1
Date(s)
- 1928 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
ca. 1928. Architectural components from Walker Cut Stone Company for the Capital building; loaded on the back of a flatbed truck. The Walker Co. were dealers in sandstone, building stone and paving blocks. The 1928 City Directory listed the company directors as Robert Walker- president, Robert G. Walker Jr.- vice pres and William J. Walker- sec. treas. The office and yard were located at 2403 Center. The Capital consisted of five historic buildings designed by Wilder and White and constructed between 1922 and 1928. the Capital building itself was the largest exclusively stone building in America. (Argentum)
Walker Cut Stone Co. (Tacoma); Building materials industry--Tacoma--1920-1930; Trucks--1920-1930;