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Name and location of repository
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Item
Title
A2458-1
Date(s)
- 1928 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
ca. 1928. Architectural components from Walker Cut Stone Company for the Capital building; loaded on the back of a flatbed truck. Robert Walker started his stone cutting business in a shed on Puyallup Ave. in 1907. By the 1920's, he had demonstrated the building superiority of Wilkeson sandstone and finalized the largest stone contract to date, the state Capital buildings in Olympia. (TNT 2/25/1927, pg. 13) (Argentum)
Walker Cut Stone Co. (Tacoma); Building materials industry--Tacoma--1920-1930;