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- 6 images. Rust Bldg. Wm. R. Rust, builder Sutton, Whitney & Dugan, arch. J.E. Bonnell, contr. -twelve stories, 150 ft. -partial plans at TPL -known as the Townsend Bldg. from 1929 to 1931 -remodeled by Seafirst Bank in 1986 and renamed Seafirst Center -renamed the Commerce Center in 2003 -site includes 950-62 Pacific Ave., 951-59 Commerce St., 201-15 So. 11th St. -occupants included: Lundquist-Lilly Clothing, Ambrose Physiological Clinic, W.H. Opie & Co. Real Estate, Havelock C. Boyle & Co., Maryland Realty Co., Equitable Life Assurance Society, Alt's Sandwich Nook, Townsend & Co. Investments, KVI Radio, First United Bank, Bruno Photograhic Studio, Kress Malted Milk, American Federal Savings & Loan Assoc., Seafirst Bank -partial plans at TPL
- TDL 7/6/1919 p.B7 Site of 12-story building to be erected soon (il)
- TDL 8/3/1919 p.B5 (il of site)
- TDL 8/31/1919 p.B5 Steel for Rust Building
- TDL 11/30/1919 p.B5 Local firms will build Rust Block (sketch)
- TDL 12/28/1919 p.B14 (real estate ad, floor plan)
- TDL 1/25/1920 p.B7 Landmarks fast becoming history (il)
- TDL 2/15/1920 p.C1 (il of excavation)
- TDL 2/29/1920 p.C10 Macks make mark in excavation work (il)
- TDL 5/23/1920 p.B5 (progress)
- TDL 8/1/1920 p.B6 (il under construction)
- TDL 8/7/1920 p.1 Infant christened on swaying girder; little Marjorie Hope Powell given name on beam 120 feet above street (il)
- TDL 8/8/1920 p.B8 Work rushed on office building; announce floor plans ...
- TDL 9/12/1920 p.B7 (il under construction)
- TDL 10/31/1920 p.B5 Big clothing house starts store here (Lundquist-Lilly leases entire second floor)
- TDL 1/2/1921 p.B6 (il)
- TDL 1/16/1921 p.A6 Crowds attend store opening p.A11 (ad for Lundquist-Lilly) (sketch)
- TNT 2/12/1921 (sketch)
- TDL 5/15/1921 p.B5 Ambrose Clinic has big growth (interior il of Ambrose Physiological Clinic)
- TDL 12/11/1921 p.B10 Opie company moves offices (W.H. Opie & Co. to manage the Rust Bldg., leases fourth floor)
- TDL 12/12/1921 p.9 (description,il)
- TDL 1/1/1922 p.B5 (il)
- TDL 3/5/1922 p.B3 Old firm occupies attractive offices (interior il of W.H. Opie & Co.)
- TDL 4/9/1922 p.E10 Pioneer firm to take new offices (Maryland Realty Co. leases part of third floor; Havelock C. Boyle & Co. leases part of fifth floor)
- TDL 7/30/1922 p.E5 Company opens larger offices (Equitable Life Assurance Society leases space in bldg.)
- TDL 11/6/1927 p.E9 Judge orders tax rebate on Rust Building
- TNT 11/30/1927 p.6 (architectural award)
- TDL 7/22/1928 p.A3 (interior il of Alt's Sandwich Nook at 953 Commerce St.)
- TDL 3/30/1929 p.1,3 Rust Bldg. leased for $3,750,000 (Townsend & Co. leases bldg. for 49 years) (il)
- TDL 10/11/1929 To rename W.R. Rust Building (to Townsend Bldg.)
- TDL 10/12/1929 p.10 Change name of Rust edifice
- TDL 4/29/1930 Rotogravure Sec. p.7 (il)
- TDL 1/24/1931 p.1 Credit girl with saving Gen. Ashton
- TDL 10/9/1931 Rust name back on building
- TDL 10/11/1931 p.D6 (mention of name change)
- TDL 2/9/1932 Gravure Sec. p.1 (il)
- TDL 12/12/1933 p.1 KVI station is model for Pacific Coast (new radio station on fifth floor dedicated)
- TDL 1/1/1937 p.1 New views in sensational kidnapping case (il)
- TDL 5/9/1937 p.B9 First United Bank now completed (il)
- TDL 6/6/1937 p.A2 ... celebrating new school (remodeling for Lundquist- Lilly Co.)
- TNT 9/23/1938 p.2 Studio announces formal opening (interior il of Bruno Photographic Studio)
- TNT 6/2/1939 p.1 Direct Jubilee shower; buttons will be dropped from sky ...
- TNT 2/23/1941 p.B6 Clothing firm is remodeling
- TNT 3/28/1941 p.4 Handsome new entrance (il of Cararra Glass front of Lundquist-Lilly Store) p.13 Lundquist-Lilly notes birthday
- TNT 5/28/1941 p.8 New Pacific Avenue unit is now open (il,interior il of Kress Malted Milk at 960 Pacific Ave.)
- TNT 9/14/1942 p.3 Tacoman hurt by fall into elevator pit
- TNT 10/7/1948 p.27 Biggest opening day on Pacific Coast (interior il of Thom McAn Shoe Store)
- TNT 11/18/1948 p.C6,C7 Grand opening of "the Rathskeller" (interior il of Rathskeller Cafeteria)
- TNT 2/25/1949 p.1 Business offices looted
- TNT 7/29/1949 p.5 New Regal store (il of Regal Shoe Store at 960 Pacific Ave.)
- TNT 10/6/1950 p.16 New location ... (interior il of Northern Life Insurance Co.)
- TNT 6/5/1951 p.24 Remodeling nearly over (Lundquist-Lilly Store)
- TNT 6/6/1951 p.A5 Remodeling nearly over (sketch)
- TNT 3/2/1952 p.A16 Air raid shelters ...
- TNT 3/25/1954 p.A4 Escapes after daring holdup
- TNT 12/24/1954 p.A1 Masked men stage three holdups (incident at the Lake Finance Co.)
- TNT 1/12/1955 p.2 (permit for new elevators)
- TNT 6/26/1955 p.C19 New elevators installed in Rust Bldg. (interior il)
- TNT 7/10/1955 p.D9 Lindy's Chuck Wagon Cafe opens Monday in the Rust Building (interior il)
- TNT 12/2/1957 p.1 Loan firm's safe punched (Lake Finance Co.)
- TNT 3/16/1958 p.A1 Loan firm held up by two thugs (Lake Finance Co.)
- TNT 1/25/1959 p.B15 Northern Life Tacoma office rates high (remodeling on 11th floor for Northern Life Insurance Co. by Reyier & Wick, contr.) (interior il)
- TNT 2/5/1959 p.A7 Fire damages shoe store (Regal Shoes at 960 Pacific Ave.)
- TNT 3/9/1962 p.18 Shoe sales halted as key breaks off in lock (incident at the Regal Shoe Store at 960 Pacific Ave.)
- TNT 10/2/1963 p.A1 American S-L to move into Rust Building
- TNT 11/3/1963 p.B6 Remodeling downtown (sketch of proposed remodeling for American Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. by Sibold & Nesland, arch.)
- TNT 3/11/1964 p.C8 $207,000 low bid on Rust Building job (remodeling by Sibold & Associates of Seattle, arch. and Concrete Construction Co., contr.)
- TNT 5/6/1964 p.B10 Tacoma firm wins contract (Concrete Construction Co.)
- TNT 1/3/1965 p.B12 American Federal opens new home office downtown (interior il of American Federal Savings & Loan Assoc.)
- TNT 4/11/1965 p.B6 (12th floor to be remodeled for Anderson & Pearson)
- TNT 6/2/1968 p.C21 (permit taken to remodel 4th floor)
- TNT 8/20/1970 p.A1 Rust Building damaged after runaway truck kills woman waiting for traffic light (il)
- TNT 10/26/1972 p.B12 American Federal S & L purchases Rust Building (il) 338.973 P83Pt 1921 p.30 (sketch); 1924 p.58 (il) 340.9 P611L 1922 (ad for the Rust Bldg. Barber Shop) 720 ST711S Stone : ten thousand years ago and now / pen drawings and historical data by Muriel Cambern (il) 979.7 B64 Vol. II p.758 979.7 W28A Apr. 1928 (il) 979.7788 ST769H p.40 ----- Seafirst Center
- TNT 10/24/1985 Seafirst to occupy offices in redone Tacoma building
- TNT 9/25/1986 Former Rust Building to reopen next week with new look, financial and legal tenants (remodeling by Reed Reinval Architects, arch.) (il,interior il)
- TNT 3/31/1996 p.SL3 KH2O launches its reign (radio station opens on 12th floor)
- TNT 6/25/1996 p.C6 Rust Building -- the name, that is -- coming back
- TNT 9/29/1998 p.C6 KHHO vacates
- TNT 8/2/2000 p.D1 Local radio, world wide web audience (StreamAudio.Com takes space in bldg.) (interior il) ----- Commerce Center
- TNT 11/6/2002 p.D1 World Trade Center Tacoma plans move
- TNT 11/18/2002 p.B1 It's no contest ... (proposal to rename the bldg. to the Commerce Bldg.) T.Daily Index 4/3/2003 p.1 WTC Tacoma, EDB, Chamber sign agreement; pooling office spaces ... (il) Business Examiner 9/29/2003 p.13 For some, it'll still be the Rust Building ... (il) T.Daily Index 12/9/2004 Under one roof; Commerce Center open house ... Puget Sound Business Journal 9/16/2022 p.9 Tacoma family expands camping-themed coffee business (ext il)
- Year Built: 1920
- Decade Built: 1920s