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- 8 images. Merchants National Bank Proctor & Dennis, arch. Barrett & Herod, contr. -site includes 1101-03 Commerce St., 204 So. 11th St. -renamed the Equitable Bldg. c.1897 after the Equitable Life Assurance Society moved into the bldg. -partial plans at TPL
- TDL 6/1/1890 p.3 The site selected
- TDL 7/27/1890 p.3 (mention)
- TDL 8/12/1890 p.6 (mention)
- TDL 8/17/1890 p.12 A modern bank home (sketch)
- TDL 5/24/1891 p.3 Nearly completed
- TDL 7/16/1891 p.5 (sketch) 917.972 Sp4 (il) 979.5 Or15O p.130 (il) 979.7 N812 July 1891 p.20 (sketch) ----- Equitable Bldg.
- TDL 7/3/1898 (sketch)
- TDL 2/16/1903 p.3 An up-to-date cigar store ----- Pacific Savings & Loan Assoc.
- TDL 3/19/1922 p.A8 Loan association in new quarters (former Tacoma Savings Bank & Trust Co. building remodeled by Ernest Corner, contr.)
- TDL 9/17/1922 p.E5 Crown Drug firm leases new corner (to remodel)
- TNT 6/7/1926 Pacific Savings leases building
- TDL 8/7/1930 p.5 (alterations by Albertson, Cornell Bros. & Walsh, contr.)
- TDL 2/22/1931 p.D6 Old structure renovated (R.C. Reamer, interior decorator) (il)
- TDL 5/26/1931 Rotogravure Sec. p.4 (il)
- TDL 7/5/1931 p.D6 Remodeling is finished
- TNT 12/14/1938 p.2 New store is ready; remodeled Crown Drug ... (il) ----- Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan Assoc.
- TNT 6/14/1939 p.4 (il)
- TNT 4/30/1940 p.9 Nationally recognized (il)
- TNT 9/5/1940 p.9 Pioneer shoe repair shop is reopened (Carlsons's Shoe Repair at 208 So. 11th St.)
- TNT 9/29/1948 p.1 Runaway auto injuries 3 racing down 11th St. hill (il)
- TNT 5/9/1949 p.1 Lofty peril comes down (cornice damaged in earthquake removed) (il)
- TNT 7/29/1949 p.22 32,000 pounds of door (interior il of vault)
- TNT 9/22/1949 p.C2,C3 Horlucks will open new fountain lunch (interior il of Horluck's Fountain Lunch at 1104 Pacific Ave.)
- TNT 11/29/1949 p.9 Many innovations in safe deposit vaults; only Tacoma escalator (remodeling by Lea, Pearson & Richards, arch.) (first escalator in Tacoma, "radiant germicidal lighting") (interior il)
- TNT 4/23/1953 Our new clock ("first revolving clock of its kind on the Pacific Coast") (sketch of street clock)
- TNT 4/29/1953 p.B7 (permit for neon sign)
- TNT 11/29/1955 p.9 Auto crashes into building
- TNT 12/12/1955 p.15 Computer first of kind here (receives a Univac 120 computer) (il)
- TNT 10/8/1959 p.A10 Crashed car hits building
- TNT 10/17/1963 p.A3 Former home of 1st Federal being demolished
- TNT 11/17/1963 p.C14 Making way for progress (il of demolition)
- Year Built: 1891
- Decade Built: 1890s
- Demolished: 1963