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930 TACOMA AVE S, TACOMA

  • 15 images. County-City Bldg. A. Gordon Lumm, arch. Macdonald Bldg. Co., contr. -aluminum and glass -12 stories, 167 ft. -plans at TPL -approved by voters 11/4/1952 -construction started 7/25/1956 -dedicated 4/10/1959 -bldg. debt retired in July 1977 -addition (court facilities wing) built in 1988 -metal detectors installed at entrances in 1994 -for the City and Pierce County Jail SEE: 701 NOLLMEYER LANE SEE ALSO: TPL Catalog/Clipping File
  • TDL 4/20/1928 p.1 City-County building idea is suggested
  • TDL 9/29/1929 p.A4 City-County Building seen as future Tacoma project
  • TDL 6/13/1937 p.A1 Does city need new city hall (sketch of bldg. proposed for site)
  • TNT 5/2/1939 p.1 Big public building reviewed; need for County-City structure argued
  • TNT 9/11/1949 p.A1 Officials again talk City- County Building
  • TNT 11/23/1949 p.1 Plan bond issue for city hall
  • TNT 12/17/1949 p.3 Fawcett appeals for new building
  • TNT 1/22/1950 p.1 New County-City building favored (plan endorsed by the Tacoma Metal Trades Council)
  • TNT 6/2/1950 p.D1 City-County Bldg. group enlarged
  • TNT 6/22/1950 p.D4 Drop city hall plan
  • TNT 12/21/1951 p.1 City-County Bldg. on ballot to be aim
  • TNT 1/29/1952 p.16 County-City site sought
  • TNT 2/27/1952 p.6 County-City project up
  • TNT 3/26/1952 p.24 Architect fee fixed
  • TNT 4/2/1952 p.A9 City joins with County T.Reporter 8/6/1952 p.2 Architects ready drawings for City-County Building T.Reporter 8/8/1952 p.1 City-County Building plans win approval (sketch of proposal) T.Star 8/14/1952 County committee being named (sketch of proposal)
  • TNT 8/14/1952 p.30 C-C Building advisers picked
  • TNT 8/19/1952 p.1 Lay committee to plan ...
  • TNT 8/26/1952 p.1 County-City site to await election
  • TNT 9/3/1952 p.14 Ask choice of 38th St.
  • TNT 9/5/1952 p.18 County-City issue cited (il of bldg. committee chair Arthur H. Brouse) p.29 Would use present site
  • TNT 9/6/1952 p.1 Site choice delay urged
  • TNT 9/12/1952 p.1 Put civic building on ballot
  • TNT 9/18/1952 p.C9 County-City building on ballot Nov. 4 T.Star 9/21/1952 A.H. Brouse is chosen head of lay group T.Star 9/4/1952 Chamber of Commerce favors bonds
  • TNT 9/5/1952 County-City issue cited
  • TNT 9/12/1952 Put civic building on ballot T.Star 9/25/1952 Money will pay structure cost on level site
  • TNT 10/3/1952 p.D10 County-City plan urged
  • TNT 10/5/1952 p.B5 Vote Yes (ad)
  • TNT 10/10/1952 p.4 Minute Men urge vote
  • TNT 10/12/1952 p.C13 Tacoma architects present plans of proposed County-City Bldg. (sketch)
  • TNT 10/28/1952 p.15 City-County bldg. backed
  • TNT 11/3/1952 p.17 Vote yes (ad)
  • TNT 11/6/1952 p.24 County-City Building
  • TNT 11/18/1952 p.1 Speed action on site ...
  • TNT 11/29/1952 p.3 Old location urged for new city hall
  • TNT 12/9/1952 p.1 County-City Building site "selling" difficult T.Star 12/11/1952 Site sponsors must submit location data
  • TNT 12/21/1952 p.A1 Suggest sites galore ...
  • TNT 1/13/1953 p.7 No sites yet submitted for building
  • TNT 2/3/1953 p.1 Ten sites are submitted
  • TNT 2/10/1953 Ten County, City Bldg. sites listed T.Star 2/19/1953 ... project may look like this (sketch)
  • TNT 2/22/1953 p.A1 Which of these sites will win County-City Building (map)
  • TNT 2/26/1953 p.A1 County-City site hearing under way T.Star 2/26/1953 (full page ad for So. 38th St. site)
  • TNT 2/27/1953 p.1 No incidents at hearing ...
  • TNT 3/2/1953 p.13 Browns Point "wins" as county building site
  • TNT 3/24/1953 p.1 So. 38th and Pine site backers urge action
  • TNT 3/26/1953 p.A1 Suggest site near hospital T.Star 3/26/1953 Yards and yards of cards (il of petition from So. 38th St. site backers)
  • TNT 5/4/1953 p.17 ... survey favors three sites
  • TNT 5/5/1953 p.1 Market St. - Tacoma Ave. site leading
  • TNT 5/7/1953 p.A1 Planners pick C-C Bldg. sites
  • TNT 5/10/1953 p.A1 Architect to be hired soon ...
  • TNT 5/15/1953 p.A11 Labor backs No.1 site
  • TNT 5/18/1953 p.1 County still delays architect selection p.4 Buried again? (ad)
  • TNT 5/19/1953 p.A1 Choice of architect is held in abeyance
  • TNT 5/20/1953 p.1 Squabble on architect still stalls site choice
  • TNT 5/22/1953 p.A1 Lumm named architect for new C-C building
  • TNT 5/23/1953 p.1 Incensed over "deal" allegation; Tacoma Society of Architects condemns statement ...
  • TNT 5/25/1953 p.1 Mayor hits Co. board for "deal" on architect p.12 Police want in C-C Bldg.
  • TNT 5/26/1953 p.1 Gleason remains mum on meaning of "deal"
  • TNT 5/30/1953 p.1 Builders want County heads to reconsider
  • TNT 6/2/1953 p.2 Council favors local firms on C-C Building p.15 Site approval is next step
  • TNT 6/8/1953 p.4 Planner hits C-C Building site ratings p.5 Not dead yet! (ad)
  • TNT 6/15/1953 p.1 Lumm contract signed as architects fume
  • TNT 7/3/1953 p.1 Pierce County rejects proposal of appraisers
  • TNT 7/22/1953 p.8 County, City meet on bldg. T.Star 7/23/1953 (full page ad demanding vote /election on site selection)
  • TNT 7/24/1953 p.10 Bratrud prods County Dads on C-C Bldg.
  • TNT 8/13/1953 p.A1 Three sites appraised
  • TNT 9/1/1953 p.1 Legality of joint title questioned
  • TNT 9/2/1953 p.A2 Auditor fears plane expense is not legal
  • TNT 9/5/1953 p.3 Architects' trip expenses ruled legal
  • TNT 9/24/1953 p.A10 C-C Building report bared
  • TNT 9/28/1953 p.1 Lumm presents survey of major C-C buildings
  • TNT 10/9/1953 p.1 New city hall plan offered by utilities
  • TNT 10/19/1953 p.1 County still waits on site for C-C structure
  • TNT 10/21/1953 p.C4 J.W. Slayden asks action p.C10 New flag back at courthouse
  • TNT 10/22/1953 p.A8 Morris asks for action
  • TNT 10/27/1953 p.1 Building site decision due November 10 T.Star 10/29/1953 Suit looms over choice of slum site
  • TNT 11/10/1953 p.1 Pick present Courthouse site: Four square blocks selected
  • TNT 11/12/1953 p.A1 CC Building will face Tacoma Av.; church is problem
  • TNT 11/15/1953 p.A1 County-City Building site (aerial il)
  • TNT 11/25/1953 p.2 Joint County-City jail seen as real tax-saver
  • TNT 12/7/1953 p.1 C-C bond sale bids called
  • TNT 12/8/1953 p.1 County soon to buy land
  • TNT 1/7/1954 p.D3 C-C Building cost division is submitted
  • TNT 1/11/1954 p.1 C-C bond bids to be opened
  • TNT 1/13/1954 p.1 Bidding error loses deal on county bonds
  • TNT 1/20/1954 p.1 Officials at odds on new C-C Building
  • TNT 1/24/1954 p.A1 County and city differ on building
  • TNT 1/26/1954 p.1 Council still balks at plan for C-C Bldg.
  • TNT 1/28/1954 p.A1 City-County impasse over building ends
  • TNT 2/4/1954 County-City writing camp (signing of first of 6,000 bonds)
  • TNT 2/9/1954 p.1 ... site value set at $600,000
  • TNT 2/10/1954 p.1 Bond signing job concluded
  • TNT 3/11/1954 p.A1 City, County to review joint building plans
  • TNT 3/12/1954 p.1 C-C Building plans to have $5,000 survey
  • TNT 3/14/1954 p.A1 $612,000 is offered for co-city site
  • TNT 3/16/1954 p.1 City demands new plan on C-C Building
  • TNT 3/30/1954 p.12 Garden clubs demand space
  • TNT 4/6/1954 p.15 More plans sought for City-County Building
  • TNT 4/12/1954 p.1 Council to get new plans
  • TNT 4/13/1954 p.1 County-City site property condemned
  • TNT 4/14/1954 p.A1 Experts scan County-City Building plans
  • TNT 4/15/1954 p.D4 C-C Building review on
  • TNT 4/16/1954 p.1 ... plans OKd by experts
  • TNT 4/18/1954 p.A1 Here is basic plan ... (sketch)
  • TNT 4/19/1954 p.14 County board OKs survey on building p.15 County-City site owners will meet
  • TNT 4/20/1954 p.1 Council raps building plan T.Star 4/22/1954 Owners protest C-C offer
  • TNT 4/27/1954 p.1 Council still bitter over joint tenancy
  • TNT 5/3/1954 p.1 Basic plan of C-C Building officially OKd
  • TNT 5/4/1954 p.1 Showdown due as City Dads reject plans
  • TNT 5/11/1954 p.1 City eyes utilities building
  • TNT 5/12/1954 p.B3 City clarifies stand on building controversy
  • TNT 5/19/1954 p.14 City-County debate mild
  • TNT 5/20/1954 p.A1 End hinted to County, City row
  • TNT 5/21/1954 p.A1 County-City feud eases in new plan
  • TNT 5/22/1954 p.5 Sprinker tells County's side in building issue
  • TNT 5/23/1954 p.A1 County-City differences on building unresolved (sketch) p.A3 Walk in rain likely at Co.-City Building
  • TNT 5/26/1954 p.C10 New delay on C-C structure
  • TNT 5/29/1954 p.1 Mayor deplores lack of County cooperation
  • TNT 5/30/1954 p.A7 City hall tower might add C-C Building touch (sketch)
  • TNT 6/2/1954 p.9 Judges dislike changed plan ...
  • TNT 6/3/1954 p.A1 County offers building plan
  • TNT 6/4/1954 p.D8 City officials cool to new building plan
  • TNT 6/15/1954 p.3 County-City Bldg. cost set at $5,994,300
  • TNT 6/22/1954 p.15 Council asks for space in south wing
  • TNT 6/25/1954 p.1 Separate wing for courts held essential
  • TNT 6/27/1954 p.A1 City, county anxiously await new building OK (il of A. Gordon Lumm)
  • TNT 6/28/1954 p.1 City told separate wing out of question: Jobless workerspin hopes on C-C structure
  • TNT 6/29/1954 p.A1 County Dads call C-C delay "political": Battin seeks County post; hits C-C plan
  • TNT 6/30/1954 p.A1 Building delays cost taxpayers $173 daily
  • TNT 7/1/1954 p.C12 County votes cash to buy building site
  • TNT 7/7/1954 p.1 City offers to buy wing of C-C Bldg.
  • TNT 7/11/1954 p.A10 Candidate's new plan: multi-winged building
  • TNT 7/13/1954 p.1 City launches plan to build own annex
  • TNT 7/22/1954 p.A6 Commissioner derides City architect plan
  • TNT 7/27/1954 p.1 County owns 1/3 of C-C site
  • TNT 8/10/1954 p.1 City to meet County again on building
  • TNT 8/16/1954 p.1 County-City confer over new building
  • TNT 10/12/1954 p.6 Know the facts (campaign ad for Battin for commissioner)
  • TNT 10/17/1954 p.B7 Know the true facts
  • TNT 10/19/1954 p.6 Know the true facts
  • TNT 10/27/1954 p.B5 Dr. Battin gives reply
  • TNT 11/7/1954 p.A1 Mid-1955 seen for Co-City Building start
  • TNT 11/16/1954 p.1 Condemnation of Co.-City site starts
  • TNT 11/17/1954 p.A1 Jury delayed in survey of building site
  • TNT 11/18/1954 p.A1County nears end of court suits for site
  • TNT 11/19/1954 p.A1 Jury to rule on site value
  • TNT 11/25/1954 p.A1 Jury grants $150,000 for church site
  • TNT 11/28/1954 p.A1 Razing next City- County site chore
  • TNT 12/21/1954 p.1 "Stalling" on C-C Building lease charged
  • TNT 12/26/1954 p.A17 This is it (sketch)
  • TNT 12/30/1954 p.1 County-City dads agree on tenancy
  • TNT 1/12/1955 p.11 Jail chapel under study
  • TNT 1/17/1955 p.2 New problems bobbing up on C-C structure
  • TNT 1/25/1955 p.1 Building site must be clear
  • TNT 2/7/1955 p.1 ... demolition bids called
  • TNT 2/25/1955 p.C2 City, County reach accord on building
  • TNT 3/8/1955 p.1 Demolition bids opened ...
  • TNT 3/9/1955 p.1 Tacoma firm gets contract (Coast Contractors to demolish bldgs. on site)
  • TNT 3/15/1955 p.14 Warns against pilfering at building site
  • TNT 3/19/1955 Co-City site demolition is starting (il)
  • TNT 3/20/1955 p.A18 Co-City site demolition in starting (il of contr. Walter McHugh of Coast Contractors)
  • TNT 4/3/1955 p.A10 Bucket bites deep for County-City Building (il of demolition project)
  • TNT 4/5/1955 p.1 County, City still talking office layout
  • TNT 4/10/1955 p.C13 County-City Building (sketch)
  • TNT 4/20/1955 p.29 County lease proposal put under knife
  • TNT 4/24/1955 p.C7 One down, six to go (il of demolition project)
  • TNT 4/27/1955 p.A4 C-C leasing arrangement agreed upon County Officer May 1955 p.103 New County-City Building for Pierce County, Tacoma, Washington by Harry Sprinker
  • TNT 5/8/1955 p.A1 Destruction before construction (il of demolition project) p.A8 War scene? No County-City Bldg site (il)
  • TNT 6/12/1955 p.A1 Public buys "anything" as buildings razed (aerial il of demolition project)
  • TNT 6/16/1955 p.A8 County-City lease Okayed
  • TNT 6/19/1955 p.C14 National Publication tells of C-C Building (County OfficerMagazine, May 1955)
  • TNT 7/26/1955 p.1 County and City agree on tenancy
  • TNT 8/1/1955 p.2 County ratifies building lease
  • TNT 8/16/1955 p.25 City, County to sign pact
  • TNT 8/17/1955 p.A1 Officials sign lease pact on C-C structure
  • TNT 8/28/1955 p.A1 No hurricane - County-City site clearance (il of demolition project)
  • TNT 9/11/1955 p.A1 (il of demolition project)
  • TNT 9/17/1955 p.1 Down it goes (last bldg. on site, Central Lutheran Church at 1001 So. G St., is demolished) (il)
  • TNT 12/30/1955 p.1 Construction to start month after award; revised architect's drawing (sketch)
  • TNT 2/7/1956 p.14 Tough steel picked fo new jail bars
  • TNT 2/21/1956 p.1 ... bids opened
  • TNT 2/22/1956 p.1 C-C Bldg. bids exceed 8 millions
  • TNT 2/23/1956 p.A1 Sprinker determined to build
  • TNT 2/27/1956 p.1 City may pull out of CC Building
  • TNT 2/28/1956 p.4 City Council has ball in CC Building problem
  • TNT 3/1/1956 Officials quiz Lumm ...
  • TNT 3/2/1956 City Dads to reappraise bldg. dilemma
  • TNT 3/5/1956 p.1 One negative vote may halt C-C Building plan
  • TNT 3/6/1956 p.25 Architect to consider fee on building
  • TNT 3/7/1956 p.A1 Lumm, County agree on fee for building
  • TNT 3/11/1956 p.A1 County-City Building can and should be constructed now, public officials declare (sketch)
  • TNT 3/12/1956 p.1 Building fund ordinance to be introduced
  • TNT 3/13/1956 p.1 Council argues building riddle; City fathers wax hot on measure
  • TNT 3/14/1956 p.A1 County plan for bldg. "dead duck"
  • TNT 3/16/1956 p.1 County-City Building is fact-theory problem
  • TNT 3/18/1956 p.A1 Council due to vote on building tomorrow
  • TNT 3/20/1956 p.1 Council rejects C-C building plan; financing ordinance voted down (il of demolition project)
  • TNT 3/21/1956 p.A1 Port aid on CC Building to be asked
  • TNT 3/22/1956 p.A1 County rejects building bids; Port offer is illegal says law
  • TNT 3/24/1956 p.1 Tollefson's bldg. plan wins favor
  • TNT 3/26/1956 City C-C "out" under study
  • TNT 3/28/1956 p.A1 City breaks silence ...
  • TNT 3/29/1956 p.A1 "Secret 6" on council get blast
  • TNT 3/30/1956 p.1 Councilmen deny secret sessions held
  • TNT 4/12/1956 p.6 State help on C-C Building not sufficient
  • TNT 4/24/1956 p.1 C-C Building dilemma solved; use present funds, City Dads told
  • TNT 4/26/1956 p.A1 Council approves building
  • TNT 5/8/1956 p.1 Lumm ordered to redesign ...
  • TNT 5/28/1956 p.1 Second call for C-C bids
  • TNT 6/3/1956 p.A1 County-City Building to be started in July
  • TNT 7/3/1956 p.2 City-County jail plan to be surveyed
  • TNT 7/10/1956 p.1 Award to be signed tomorrow
  • TNT 7/11/1956 p.A1 Contract on C-C Building is awarded
  • TNT 7/17/1956 p.1 Tollefson asks new bonds for C-C Building
  • TNT 7/24/1956 p.1 City okays CC Building lease pact
  • TNT 7/25/1956 p.A1 C-C Building job starts (il)
  • TNT 8/7/1956 p.1 City Council votes to add 2 stories to C-C Building
  • TNT 8/8/1956 p.A1 C-C Building to be taller
  • TNT 8/12/1956 p.B2 C-C Building site readied (il)
  • TNT 8/14/1956 p.1 City, County to confer on building wing
  • TNT 8/17/1956 p.1 County-City proposal goes back for study
  • TNT 9/4/1956 p.1 Bond issue favored for C-C Building wing
  • TNT 9/8/1956 p.3 Committee takes pulse on C-C wing
  • TNT 9/14/1956 p.1 C-C edifice bond issue on ballot
  • TNT 9/30/1956 p.A6 Just the beginning (il of site)
  • TNT 10/14/1956 p.A1 Still going up (il under construction)
  • TNT 10/21/1956 Voters will decide (sketch)
  • TNT 10/25/1956 ... jail space estimated
  • TNT 10/31/1956 p.A15 Voters will decide (sketch)
  • TNT 11/4/1956 p.B9 Vote "Yes" on County Proposition No. 1
  • TNT 11/18/1956 p.A10 C-C Building rising (il under construction)
  • TNT 11/19/1956 p.A1 Survives 40-foot drop (car crashes into construction site)
  • TNT 12/16/1956 p.A1 C-C Building progresses (il under construction)
  • TNT 12/21/1956 p.8 State asks County plans for building Tacoma Daily Index 12/10/2020 p.3 Three new courtrooms and associated spaces completed for County City Building district court
  • Year Built: 1959
  • Decade Built: 1950s

930 TACOMA AVE S, TACOMA

  • County-City Bldg. (CONTINUED)
  • TNT 01/14/1957 The big payoff (Pierce County Auditor Jack Sonntag receives bond check)
  • TNT 01/21/1957 p. 1 C-C Building wing okayed
  • TNT 01/25/1957 p. 5 "Miniature Rainier" (il of excavation)
  • TNT 02/20/1957 B2 C-C Building detail poses real problem
  • TNT 03/10/1957 B2 Beneath it all (il of foundation work)
  • TNT 03/31/1957 C15 Taking shape (il under construction)
  • TNT 04/11/1957 A1 The new blotting out the old (il under construction)
  • TNT 05/06/1957 p. 28 ... rises rapidly (il under construction)
  • TNT 05/12/1957 C13 Lincoln Bowl parking expansion (dirt from the County-City Bldg. site excavation used as fill)
  • TNT 06/16/1957 C15 Farm buses get C-C lot
  • TNT 07/07/1957 A1 Reaching for sky (il under construction)
  • TNT 08/04/1957 B2 Reaching for the clouds (il under construction)
  • TNT 08/22/1957 A1 Youth survives 94-foot fall
  • TNT 08/23/1957 p. 1 94-ft. plunge proves fatal (Delphus Bachman falls from 8th story)
  • TNT 10/27/1957 B7 New view (il under construction)
  • TNT 01/05/1958 A1Work on C-C edifice now at halfway point (il under construction)
  • TNT 02/04/1958 p. 2 C-C Bldg. gets cheap power
  • TNT 03/09/1958 A1... due for occupancy in one year (il under construction)
  • TNT 04/27/1958 C14 C-C Building phone system city's largest
  • TNT 06/29/1958 A1 County-City's new jail will be the best except for the folks who have to go there (il)
  • TNT 10/19/1958 A6 County-City Building passes Emily's muster
  • TNT 10/24/1958 p. 19 Roy Devish County-City Building boss
  • TNT 11/23/1958 A9 Trying it on for size (interior il of council chambers)
  • TNT 12/29/1958 A6 First employee takes place in C-C Building (Mrs. Fern Evans, marriage license clerk)
  • TNT 12/31/1958 p. 1 C-C Building dedication set
  • TNT 02/01/1959 A1 Sheriff Stojack ready for mounted posse ride (il)
  • TNT 02/15/1959 A1 Huge moving job confronts the City and County Dads (il)
  • TNT 02/16/1959 p. 12 Seven firms bid on moving to C-C Building
  • TNT 02/17/1959 p. 19 Three firms hired for City move
  • TNT 02/18/1959 A1 Daffodil royalty and a new view (il from rooftop)
  • TNT 02/20/1959 p. 6 County lets contracts on moving
  • TNT 02/26/1959 p. 6 Court opens first time in new building (interior il)
  • TNT 03/02/1959 p. 3 C-C Bldg. rites to be outlined
  • TNT 03/03/1959 p. 7 No big party despite look (empty beer cartons used in move)
  • TNT 03/04/1959 A5 Police start moving to new building p. A15 Some party (il)
  • TNT 03/11/1959 Salute to Alaska (il of window lights configuration)
  • TNT 03/12/1959 B7 City offices will get new phone system
  • TNT 03/15/1959 A1 Color tag system works smoothly in move... (il) p .A14 Man injured at County-City Building (elevator accident while moving old safe into bldg.) p. C14 (ad for
  • TNT's Dedication Edition, out 04/07/1959) (sketch)
  • TNT 03/17/1959 p. 13 Confusion reigns as County offices move
  • TNT 03/22/1959 A1 News Tribune opens teletype circuit from County-City Building
  • TNT 03/24/1959 p. 1 The faces are familiar (interior il of first City Council meeting in bldg.)
  • TNT 03/31/1959 p .2 Firm bids $11,013 on landscaping
  • TNT 04/07/1959 County-City Building dream comes true (Special County-City Building Edition) (il,interior il)
  • TNT 04/08/1959 A1 County-City Building solicitation ruled out; UGN only exception
  • TNT 04/09/1959 A1 County, City dedicate new home on Friday p. A2 C-C Building memorial set (plaque dedicated to veterans)
  • TNT 04/10/1959 A1 C-C Building is dedicated as Daffodil-land awaits parade; structure now seat of government (il)
  • TNT 05/027/1959 B4 Police moved into C-C Bldg
  • TNT 05/28/1959 p. 8 Old culprit gains aim - No. 1 in new jail: First session of Police Court held on the hill Western City Aug. 1959 p.26
  • TNT 10/11/1959 Most helpful woman? Answer not hard to find at C-C Building
  • TNT 08/12/1959 A15 Firemen search County-City Bldg
  • TNT 09/09/1959 D3 C-C Building too clean, juror finds (walks into huge pane of glass)
  • TNT 10/11/1959 A12 Most helpful woman? Answer not hard to find at C-C Building (il of volunteer greeters)
  • TNT 11/19/1959 B6 C-C Building parking fee plan decried
  • TNT 12/04/1959 A9 Lift works like crazy in C-C Bldg
  • TNT 03/15/1960 p. 7 C-C Building parking lot rules drawn
  • TNT 03/26/1960 p. 2 C-C Building emergencytest fails
  • TNT 03/31/1960 B8 Rosellini tours County- City Bldg
  • TNT 04/26/1960 p. 3 Flowers shrubs to be planted at C-C Building
  • TNT 05/01/1960 A1 Civil defense drill to empty County-City Building offices
  • TNT 05/04/1960 A1 1000 scramble to C-C cellar in alert test (interior il)
  • TNT 05/15/1960 D13 Jail kitchen rates an "A" card.. .
  • TNT 06/03/1960 A10 Living gift (il of rhododendron donated by American War Mothers)
  • TNT 08/07/1960 B10 On top of the world (il of Junior Fair princesses on rooftop)
  • TNT 08/14/1960 A10 Blind man operates C-C Bldg. snack bar (il of Tom's Snack Bar)
  • TNT 12/23/1960 p. 1 The glowing spirit of Christmas (il)
  • TNT 02/21/1961 D5 County-City Building lawn watered in rain
  • TNT 02/25/1961 p. 3 Blown fuse caused some stiff necks
  • TNT 04/05/1961 A5 Girl Scouts plant roses (il)
  • TNT 04/06/1961 A2 C-C Building gets gift of rose bushes
  • TNT 04/08/1961 p. 2 Rose gift planted (il)
  • TNT 05/29/1961 p. 13 Perfectly planted (il of rose garden)
  • TNT 12/23/1961 County-City Building has 50 Yule trees
  • TNT 02/21/1962 C18 Acoustics bad in chamber, engineer says
  • TNT 05/21/1962 p. 6 C-C Building gets license as shelter (bomb shelter)
  • TNT 08/12/1962 A12... building supt. has complex job making own weather (interior il)
  • TNT 08/17/1962 p. 10 New Orleans group studies C-C Building
  • TNT 08/26/1962 Seismograph installed at C-C Building
  • TNT 10/13/1962 p. 1 Storm alters city's face.. .
  • TNT 12/09/1962 A24 Yule "park-ride" plan uses County-City lots (il)
  • TNT 12/21/1962 B3 The magic of night (il)
  • TNT 01/17/1963 D2 Elevator ride brings suit
  • TNT 10/20/1963 A8 Stored survival supplies, manifests prepared; area's civil defense proceeds without fanfare (interior il)
  • TNT 04/04/1963 Lake daffodil appears at rear of C-C Building (flood)
  • TNT 04/07/1963 A2 C-C Building acoustics get test
  • TNT 04/10/1963 A6 Gift trees for Arbor Day (il)
  • TNT 05/17/1963 A11 Old safe taken from C-C Building
  • TNT 06/03/1963 p. 18 County-City elevator traps woman
  • TNT 08/11/1963 A18 County-City Building slates test (diesel generator to be tested)
  • TNT 12/15/1963 B6... sparkles in Yule decor
  • TNT 12/18/1963 Quirk clears elevators before outage
  • TNT 12/31/1963 p. 1 Gunplay takes heroic officer off guard duty
  • TNT 03/06/1964 p. 2 County-City Building has big fire scare
  • TNT 03/13/1964 p. 18 C-C Building marks 5th anniversary
  • TNT 03/31/1964 p. 15 King-sized daffodil atop C-C Building
  • TNT 04/01/1964 A2 Fence isn't for chickens
  • TNT 04/06/1964 p. 3 Man takes time in County-City Building robbery
  • TNT 04/16/1964 D1 Thief gets busy - on telephones
  • TNT 07/05/1964 German immigrant artist with flowers (il)
  • TNT 05/08/1966 County-City Building space to be studied
  • TNT 03/08/1967 B3 C-C Building expansion study slated
  • TNT 03/11/1967 p. 2 Boy injured in 17-foot fall
  • TNT 05/07/1967 County-City open house Saturday by women voters (il)
  • TNT 06/04/1967 A16 Bright City-County garden beds overseen by World War II foe (il of Ernst Gammer)
  • TNT 08/09/1967 C15 Remodeling approved (police training facility)
  • TNT 08/17/1967 A1 County-City wing to cost $7.8 million
  • TNT 08/30/1967 A1 Building plan asks $8 million
  • TNT 09/03/1967 B8 County-City addition (sketch of proposed addition by Seifert, Forbes & Berry, arch.)
  • TNT 09/15/1967... expansion far off
  • TNT 09/19/1967 p. 1 $22 million bond issues proposed
  • TNT 10/30/1967 p. 6 Vote Yes Prop. No. 1 (sketch of proposed addition)
  • TNT 04/08/1968 p. 1 Tacoma marchers pay tribute to Dr. King (death of Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  • TNT 04/28/1968 A19 Citizens' Information Bureau opens (interior il)
  • TNT 09/19/1968... group studies parking woes
  • TNT 07/05/1968 p. 6 County-City checks power to building
  • TNT 09/19/1968 C20 C-C Building group studies parking woes
  • TNT 01/14/1969... parking plan studied
  • TNT 02/25/1969 County hears proposal for parking lot (portable parking garage proposed)
  • TNT 04/01/1969 p. 4 Betters doors approved for C-C Building
  • TNT 09/04/1969 A12... wing drive pushed p. B4 The door opens (il)
  • TNT 09/06/1969 p. 23 Trailers may ease C-C Building problem
  • TNT 09/23/1969 County-City 5-story wing drive opens
  • TNT 09/26/1969 p. 11 Democrats find chink in plans to remodel County-City Building
  • TNT 10/27/1969 p. 35 ... expansion need told (interior il)
  • TNT 10/28/1969 Law, order, justice tied to new building (interior il)
  • TNT 10/30/1969 C17 (ad for Proposition No. 1, the County-City Building bond issue)
  • TNT 01/18/1970 A1 "Eye" votes unanimous on best spot in town for girl watching (interior il)
  • TNT 04/22/1970 Study urges new $3 million County-City parking garage
  • TNT 06/29/1970 C-C Building 3rd story now possible
  • TNT 09/25/1970 County-City hall locked at night
  • TNT 12/04/1970 A1 All burned up (Sheriff incinerates 150 pounds of marijuana)
  • TNT 12/27/1970 Uglification -- our civic shame (il)
  • TNT 06/02/1971 More C-C parking eyed (sketch)
  • TNT 09/29/1971 Group asks park lot expansion
  • TNT 05/12/1973 $152,545 bid OK'd for new center (law enforcement communications center) T.Review 09/05/1973... painting underway (il)
  • TNT 09/12/1973 "Alcatraz gray" paint job (il)
  • TNT 03/15/1974 County-City Building's hostess is the mostest
  • TNT 05/04/1975 A city-county divorce?
  • TNT 10/18/1975 County-City Building a potential fire trap (il)
  • TNT 10/24/1975 C-C violations to be corrected
  • TNT 03/24/1976 Many County-City Building violations yet uncorrected; County-City Building remodel projects OKd
  • TNT 04/08/1976 County-City Building may never meet code
  • TNT 05/21/1976 County's old shoe stand polished up for new day (interior il)
  • TNT 06/30/1977 Sprinklers called for in C-C Building
  • TNT 07/12/1977 C-C Building finally paid for
  • TNT 11/05/1977 City records get wet (interior il)
  • TNT 04/18/1978 Candyman's heirs deliver his thanks
  • TNT 05/17/1978 Shoes spark pollution fine
  • TNT 11/02/1978 County plans drop-box to cut traffic hassle
  • TNT 12/14/1978 Money shortage prevents taste error; no "artistic" chimney
  • TNT 12/18/1978 (il of new drop box)
  • TNT 02/03/1979... building to get electric heat (to replace steam heating from former Consumers Central Heating Co.)
  • TNT 02/21/1979 A4 Bottiger rips county heating choice
  • TNT 05/31/1979 Building-heating bid under estimate
  • TNT 12/30/1979 D12 The elevator lady gave county residents a "lift" (last day on the job for Marie Dess) (interior il)
  • TNT 04/30/1980 Court-remodeling extension tabled
  • TNT 06/25/1980... remodeling approved (new court facilities by Rasmussen & Hobbs, arch.)
  • TNT 07/01/1980... parking crackdown set
  • TNT 11/11/1980 A courthouse grows on Tacoma Avenue
  • TNT 11/19/1980 C-C Building grew grizzled in quick time
  • TNT 01/08/1984 B8 County parking problems, like cars, won't go away (il)
  • TNT 04/01/1984 City hires architect for remodeling work (new police offices by Tsang-Merritt Associates, arch.)
  • TNT 09/06/1985 Plans for County-City Building may change
  • TNT 05/14/1986 B1 County expands building plans to aid judiciary
  • TNT 09/08/1987 Disorder in court; workmen's noise a trial... (new court wing By Christine Mills /Rasmussen & Hobbs, arch.) (il of addition under construction)
  • TNT 09/16/1987 Prank stops up county's works; flood of raw sewage wreaks havoc in County-City Building (il)
  • TNT 12/3/1987 Wrong ring: Elevator's phones go unanswered
  • TNT 12/12/1987 Chomp! Project eats up business
  • TNT 01/31/1988 County's space gets third look
  • TNT 03/23/1988 B1 County's elevators a sticky situation
  • TNT 05/06/1988 Stortini to dedicate $5 million addition to County-City Building
  • TNT 08/11/1988 County-City Building making folks sick
  • TNT 12/04/1993 B1 County prosecutors hit floor as bullet hits window
  • TNT 04/05/1994 A1 Courthouse to beef up door security (metal detectors to be installed)
  • TNT 08/30/1994 B1 Farewell to arms
  • TNT 10/14/1994 A1 Guards seize arsenal of knives and guns
  • TNT 12/02/1994 A1 County VIPs "rumble" over seized knife
  • TNT 03/03/1995 A5 Bloody day in Seattle silences critics of Pierce County security system
  • TNT 05/10/1995 B4 Area search team honored by tree planting
  • TNT 08/30/1995 B1 Seepage forces police to move offices
  • TNT 05/26/1996 B2 Private eye is called in to solve thefts - at County-City Building
  • TNT 06/01/1996 B2 A forgotten briefcase sets off County-City Building bomb scare
  • TNT 04/02/1997 A10 Pierce County Council to redo its reception area for $15,000, creating a counter for visitors
  • TNT 03/03/1998 B1 Disgruntled man drives into courthouse doors (il) T.Daily Index 07/14/1998 p. 1 County-City Building installs sprinkler system
  • TNT 07/14/1999 B1 Robot "explodes" bones, not bombs; new device gets an unexpected workout... (il) T.Weekly 07/23/1999 p. 3 Bomb threat
  • TNT 09/27/1999 B1 Offices are dull without his polish; shoeshine man, sidelined by a stroke.. .
  • TNT 09/27/2000 A1 Justice in close quarters... cramped, potentially dangerous environment (interior il of 5th floor)
  • TNT 03/01/2001 A1, A8 Quake hits home (earthquake) T.Daily Index 05/04/2001 p. 1 County-City Building to become courthouse
  • TNT 05/04/2001 A1 City, County trading Stadium for courtrooms T.Reporter 50/24/2001 p. 1 Pierce County cited for health, safety violations... lead and asbestos woes
  • TNT 07/11/2001 B2 County Council clears way for Cheney Stadium-office space swap (all City of Tacoma offices to vacate bldg by 12/31/2004
  • TNT 09/26/2001 B1 Pierce County wants crisis HQ out of basement... need for above-ground site T.Daily Index 01/08/2002 p. 1 County-City Building getting a year-round tan; first phase of exterior resurfacing on 43-year-old building almost done (il)
  • TNT 12/01/2002 A1 The art of architecture
  • TNT 06/24/2003 A1 Inmate uses cardboard gun to flee T.Daily Index 06/24/2004 p. 1 Project commences to restore courthouse parking lot
  • TNT 07/18/2004 B3 Sonny always shined downtown (death of shoe shinner Sonny Jefferson) T.Weekly 08/19/2004 A3 New parking lot.. . T.Daily Index 03/08/2005 p. 1... improvements dedicated to fallen officer (Craig Alan Nollmeyer) (il)
  • TNT 03/08/2005 B1 County-City campus spruced up (il) T.Daily Index 03/21/2006 p. 1 $6.5 million county court renovation begins (3rd & 4th floors, formerly occupied by the Tacoma Police Dept., to be remodeled by Pease Construction, Inc., contr.) T.Weekly 04/06/2006 A3 County-City Building getting a facelift
  • TNT 07/04/2007 B1 New courtrooms (remodeling)
  • TNT 07/22/2007 E1, E5 One Percent for Art sculptures bring artful order to the court (installation "13 Compositions" by artist Garth Edwards) T.Daily Index 09/12/2008 p. 1... east plaza renovation begins (Barnett Schorr Architects / Vlahovich Design, arch. and Beisley, Inc. of Belfair, contr.) (sketch)\ Business Examiner 09/28/2008 p. 25... gets a facelift (sketch)
  • TNT 11/17/2008 B1 The goal; A more efficient court
  • TNT 12/04/2008 A1 Tacoma, county plan a bold swap; Tacoma would gain control of Cheney Stadium while Pierce County would get the County-City Building... (il)
  • TNT 12/10/2008 B1 Tacoma, county property swap approved T.Daily Index 03/04/2009 p. 1 Ribbon-cutting for improved County-City Building entrance (il of art installation "Squiggles" by artist Bud Schorr) T.Weekly 03/05/2009 A2 New County-City entrance praised for unique design (il) T.Daily Index 06/03/2010 p. 2 Pierce County updates courthouse security procedures
  • TNT 06/14/2010 A1 Courthouse's new security plan delayed
  • TNT 06/23/2010 A1 U.S. Honor Flag flies in South Sound (il) T.Daily Index 07/12/2010 p. 1 New program assists Pierce County courthouse visitors (Volunteer Information Desk)
  • TNT 09/14/2010 A3 Bomb scare clears County-City Building (il)
  • TNT 12/16/2010 A4 Bomb threat disrupts County-City Building
  • TNT 07/02/2011 A3 Pierce courthouse melee injures 3 guards, murder defendant
  • TNT 01/25/2013 A1 County to renovate offices for council 352.5 C498R, Required information for site selection on the proposed County-City Building 352.5 T119R, Report of joint committee of Tacoma City Planning Commission and Pierce County Planning Commission on the County-City Building sites 363.37 T142O, 100 years of firefighting in the city of destiny, Tacoma, Washington. P. 151 (account of fire in city jail on 09/02/1972) 710.5 P614R, Report on the selection of a location for the proposed county-city building 725.1 B868P, Proceedings re : County-City Building, Tacoma, Wash. 725.1 T128P, Proposed building for Pierce County and City of Tacoma : a preliminary survey report and suggested scheme ----- -print at TPL (General Coll., Richards Coll. #C109723-1)
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