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1148 BROADWAY, TACOMA

  • 16 images. Owen Woods Bldg. / Cornerstone Bldg. Owen Woods, builder Roath & Mendell, arch. Michael McDonnell, contr. -remodeling c.1907 for the Arcade Store (Frederick Heath, arch.) -remodeling c.1916 for the McCormack Bros. Store (C.A. Darmer, arch.) -remodeling c.1935 for Sears & Robebuck (Silas E. Nelsen, arch.) -adjacent Chaffe Apparel Bldg. added to bldg. c.1938 -adjacent Johnson & Skinner Bldg. added to bldg. in 1942 -rehab c.1982 by Cornerstone Development Co. and renamed the Cornerstone Bldg. -occupants included: Hotel Lexington, Hotel Roosevelt, Arcade Store, McCormack Bros. Dept. Store, Sears & Roebuck, Hillhaven Corp. -site includes 1148-60 Broadway SEE ALSO: 1140-42 BROADWAY, 1144-46 BROADWAY, 1140-50 COURT C TDL 1/31/1892 p.3 Big brick buildings TDL 1/1/1893 p.15 (description) TDL 12/31/1899 p.11 Piano player takes poison TDL 5/18/1900 p.2 Fall ends in death TDN Annual 1/18/1904 p.40 (ad for Hotel Roosevelt,il) TDL 2/26/1905 p.5,15 (J.S. Baker purchases the Lexington Hotel) 917.97 W52 1893 p.42 ----- Arcade Store TDL 1/20/1907 New home of Arcade Dry Goods Store (il) TDL 1/27/1907 p.19 (remodeling by J.E. Bonnell, contr.) TDL 2/3/1907 p.19 permits TDL 4/7/1907 (il under construction) TDN 6/8/1907 p.22 (il) TDL 8/31/1907 Grand opening of J.F. Murphy's Arcade (il) TDN 8/31/1907 p.22 (il) TDL 9/1/1907 p.11 Arcade opens new quarters (il) TDL 9/8/1907 p.7 (il) TDL 6/25/1908 p.3 (ad, il of crowd ready for sale) TDL 8/16/1908 p.8 Ghost monkeys at the Arcade Store TDL 9/22/1908 p.9 Arcade Store changes hands (sketch) TDL 9/27/1908 p.5 Arcade owners are greatly pleased TDL 10/4/1908 p.15 Grand fall opening at the Arcade Store TDL 5/9/1909 Arcade Store now has $6,000 soda fountain TDL 5/23/1909 p.9 (ad,il) TDL 8/29/1909 p.39 New lunch room and soda fountain (interior il) TDL 5/1/1910 Expansion of Arcade Store TDN 12/14/1910 p.11 (sketch) TDL 12/17/1911 p.15 Arcade makes bright street illumination TDL 2/19/1913 (sketch) TDL 3/16/1913 p.8 New Arcade Store lunch room (interior il) TDL 1/25/1914 p.6 Improve Arcade Store TDL 6/21/1914 p.11 Adopt novel system of store lighting p.35 (il of employees) ----- McCormack Bros. Dept. Store TDL 12/12/1915 p.20 McCormacks will go to Broadway (il) TDL 2/20/1921 p.B7 McCormack store to be enlarged TDL 2/27/1921 p.B4 (R.N. Grant, contr. for addition) TDL 6/11/1922 p.A13 New epoch in store's growth (to remodel, il of president James McCormack at his desk) TDL 2/8/1926 p.1 McCormacks will expand (adjoining Ouimette & Best >Block at 1144-48 Broadway to be added to bldg.) TDL 4/29/1928 p.A7 (ad,sketch) TDL 2/2/1929 p.12 McCormack Store to have market addition feature TDL 8/18/1929 p.A1 Tacoma store consolidated with new firm (Western Stores, Inc.) p.A7 (ad, ketch) 720.979 D25R p.24 (alterations in 1916 by C.A. Darmer, arch. and C.Beil, contr.) ----- Sears, Roebuck & Co. -remodeling style for Sears influenced by the architecture of the Sears Bldg. at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition (T.Times 10/17/1935) -micarta and stucco exterior -opened 5/21/1936 T.Times 10/17/1935 Here's how new Sears, Roebuck building will look (remodeling by Silas E. Nelsen, arch.) (sketch) TDL 10/18/1935 p.4 Big store deal revealed here ... move to ultra-modern emporium at 13th, Broadway (remodeling for Sears, Roebuck & Co. by Silas Nelsen, arch.) TNT 11/6/1935 Work begins on Sears building (Roberts & Johnson, contr.) TDL 12/8/1935 p.B8 Concern gets big contract (John Dower Lumber Co. to supply lumber for remodeling) TNT 5/20/1936 Sears, Roebuck & Co. opening tomorrow (sketch) TDL 5/21/1936 p.5 Big store ready for customers (sketch) TNT 9/5/1936 p.1 City pioneer contractor is stricken TNT 12/3/1939 p.A14 Sears creates new parking lot (il) TNT 2/9/1941 p.B8 Sears' new service station (il) TNT 5/23/1941 p.18 Sears celebrates 13th birthday (il) TNT 4/29/1942 p.13 Sears adds much new space (adjacent Frank Skinner Co. store added to bldg.) (interior il) TNT 3/31/1944 Sears new farm store opening here Monday (opened at 1135 Market St.) TNT 3/31/1947 p.1 Cashier foils Sears store holdup TNT 6/6/1951 New parking center built in record time (il of Sears Parking Center at 1140-50 Court C) TNT 8/29/1951 p.B8 Sears ready for opening (after remodeling) TNT 6/26/1953 p.28 (permit for remodeling taken by J.S. Baker) TNT 2/6/1954 p.1 Trapped in store on Broadway; reformatory parolee shot to death on fourth floor of Sears Roebuck TNT 2/11/1954 p.A1 Policemen absolved in killing TNT 5/20/1954 p.A6 New Sears escalators (interior il) TNT 6/23/1954 p.S1-S11 New, bigger Sears adds escalators; grand opening sale (il,interior il) TNT 1/19/1956 p.A1 Sears store expansion is announced TNT 2/1/1957 p.1 Baker estate buys building (Sears to expand to Johnson Paint Co. building at 1140-42 Broadway) TNT 2/3/1957 p.C14 Sears to expand TNT 9/15/1957 p.C16 Remodeling job proves big challenge (major remodel by Woodworth Construction Co., contr.) (il of roof level remodeling) TNT 6/4/1958 p.B1-B14 Grand opening sale (il) TNT 7/13/1959 p.1 Burglar, back to erase fingerprints, nabbed TNT 11/8/1962 p.B4 Sears' new ski shop (interior il) TNT 5/8/1963 p.A11 Sears plans to expand fourth floor (interior il) TNT 8/5/1965 p.B2 Third floor at Sears open for business (interior il after remodeling) TNT 8/28/1966 p.B6 (remodeling) TNT 4/16/1967 p.C19 permit taken for structural remodeling of second floor) TNT 12/13/1967 p.A8 Downtown Sears gets Ford award TNT 8/11/1968 New Sears men's store open Monday (Kings Road Dept.) TNT 9/14/1979 It happened! Downtown losing Sears TNT 9/16/1979 Sears' move upsets old shoppers (Sears to move to the Tacoma Mall in 1981) TNT 4/11/1981 Sears downtown to close this summer TNT 7/21/1981 Sears making move to Mall ----- Cornerstone Bldg. TNT 10/14/1981 Work beginning on old Sears site TNT 10/18/1981 “Skinning” old Sears building is first step TNT 12/2/1981 p.C13 Hillhaven announces headquarters move (sketch) TNT 4/4/1982 Interior work begins on Cornerstone Building (il) TNT 9/23/1982 p.A16 Cornerstone Building ready in six weeks (interior il) TNT 11/4/1982 p.A14 Hillhaven nearing downtown move to Cornerstone (third and fourth floors remodeled for Hillhaven Corp. by Reed, Litzenberger & Reinvald, arch.) TNT 12/4/1982 Cornerstone Building sold TNT 4/19/1983 Tacoma Bank to move to Cornerstone TNT 10/30/1983 Tacoma Bank's '83 ledger will show profit, new home (il) TNT 6/30/1993 p.E1 Hillhaven buys its Tacoma building TNT 12/12/1995 p.A1 Hillhaven, 400 jobs to leave Tacoma TNT 6/1/1996 p.B1 County has eye on former Hillhaven building TNT 6/6/1996 p.B1 King County Medical offers to buy Hillhaven headquarters TNT 7/19/1996 p.B7 Hillhaven farewell TNT 1/24/1997 p.B9 Insurer moving into Tacoma building (King County Medical Blue Shield) T.City Paper 7/10/1997 p.10 Tacoma's hidden treasures (interior il of Piper Jaffray Investment Brokers) TNT 12/11/2000 p.B2 South Sound Photo Album (il c.1890s) T.Weekly 8/19/2010 p.C1 Know your public art (il of “Fish Ladder” by artist Paul Clinton, dedicated in 1984, made of Keystone blue granite from Georgia) 720.28 T119TR p.59-63 (rehab c.1982 by Olson-Walker, arch. and Gall, Landau, Young Construction Co. contr.) ( il)
  • Year Built: 1892
  • Decade Built: 1890s