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Item
Title
D12907-1
Date(s)
- 1942-06-05 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Exterior of Buckley-King Funeral Service at corner of Tacoma Avenue South and South First Street for North Pacific Banknote Company; includes Funeral Church on the left and mortuary on the right. When this Romanesque-Italian structure was built in 1927, it was one of two funeral churches in the U.S. and it became the model for this kind of structure. It was designed by Hill and Mock, Architects, and built of brick with sandstone trim. The mortuary's motto was "Modern and Moderate." In 1987, the structures were purchased by the adjacent First Presbyterian Church.
Buckley-King Funeral Service (Tacoma);