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Hawthorne School
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- 5/14/1913 (Creation)
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One of 11 technical drawings created by George Gove and Frederick Henry Heath on May 14, 1913. The school closed in 1963 and was turned over to the Puyallup Tribal Council before being demolished as a fire hazard in 1981.
George Gove was born in Rochester, MN in 1970 and arrived in Tacoma in 1908. From that point, Gove worked principly with Frederick Henry Heath as consulting architects for the Tacoma Board of Education. This would provide subsequent contracts for the Central School, Lincoln High School, the Stadium High School gymnasium and the first branch of the South Tacoma Library. There are contesting accounts regarding whether George Gove or Earl N. Dugan was the founding member of the Tacoma Society of Architects.
Frederick Henry Heath was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin in 1861 and graduated from Powell's Academy, a parochial institution created by Rev William R. Powell in Caledonia, Minnesota. Heath moved to Tacoma in 1893 and formed a partnership with Ambrose James Russell and A. Walter Spaulding in 1901. It was during this partnership that Heath would become the School Architect for the Tacoma School District from 1903 through 1920, when he had moved on to partner with George Gove and draftsman Herbert A. Bell as Heath, Gove & Bell. Towards the end of his life, Heath collaborated with his son Frederick Jr. to help promote and sell his invention, "Heath Cubes," a square, hollow tile building material.
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"The News Tribune - 6/7/1963", "The News Tribune - 8/27/1973", "The News Tribune - 6/24/198", “PCAD - Heath and Gove, Architects.”, “PCAD - George Gove.”, “Tribune (Published as THE NEWS TRIBUNE) - August 31, 1956 - Page 13,”, “The Tacoma Daily News - July 23, 1910 - Page 4,”, “The Tacoma Daily Ledger - January 1, 1913”, “The Tacoma Times - February 12, 1913”, Washington State Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation (DAHP). “Frederick H. Heath.”, “PCAD - Frederick Henry Heath.”, “Peering at the Past: County High Schools Were Private, Parochial before Public.”, “Tribune (Published as THE TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE) - April 15, 1931 - Page 6,”, “Tribune (Published as THE TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE) - March 4, 1953 - Page 1,”
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Andrew Weymouth, 6/12/2022