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C117132-36
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- 1900 (Creation)
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ca. 1900. This magnificent house, which stood at 4301 North Stevens Street, was built by the real estate developer Allen C. Mason in 1892. Mason, who came to Tacoma in 1883 with $2.40, was a millionaire by 1892. He helped finance the commuter railroad that ran from Division to Point Defiance, and spent tens of thousands of dollars "boosting" Tacoma. He lost his fortune in the "panic of 1893", and was forced to sell his newly built mansion. It was bought by Whitworth College, and was the main building on their north Tacoma campus from 1899 to 1913 when they moved to Spokane. John P. Weyerhaeuser purchased all the main buildings of Whitworth College in 1920 and razed them to build "Haddaway Hall." (Copy of glass plate was made by Richards on October 3, 1958.)
Whitworth College (Tacoma); Universities & colleges--Tacoma;