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Item
Title
A66884-6
Date(s)
- 1952-05-19 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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New ranch style home, with one car garage, in Lakewood, designed & built by H.A. Briggs. Briggs Construction Co. was owned by H.A. Briggs, who lived at 523 Alta Vista Place in Fircrest. As veterans returned from Korea, as they did after WW II, they started families and bought their first home. Construction in the Tacoma area was at an all time high at the beginning of the fifties. The ranch home became the residential standard for this time period and its most common location was in the suburbs. Several communities, such as Lakewood, grew rapidly with this influx of population and urban flight. TPL-8312
Houses--Lakewood--1950-1960; Briggs Construction Co. (Tacoma);