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950 BROADWAY, TACOMA

  • 17 images. Rhodes Bros. Dept. Store Judge Wm. A. Snell, builder Russell & Heath, arch. F.H. Goss, contr. -three stories added in 1911 -"All Roads Lead to Rhodes" -Rhodes Bros. Dept. Store closed 12/28/1974 -occupied by University of Puget Sound Law School (Norton Clapp Law Center) from 1980 to 1999 (school purchased by Seattle University in 1994, relocated to Seattle in 1999) -site includes 944-56 Broadway
  • TDL 1/18/1903 p.17 (mention)
  • TDL 3/22/1903 Contract for Snell block let
  • TDL 3/29/1903 p.15 (sketch)
  • TDL 5/17/1903 p.17 Excavating for Snell building completed
  • TDL 7/19/1903 p.23 (il under construction)
  • TDL 7/26/1903 p.23 (sketch)
  • TDL 11/5/1903 p.7 (ad for grand opening,il)
  • TDL 11/8/1903 p.17 Auspicious opening of new store TDN Annual 1/18/1904 p.49 (il) TDN 6/29/1905 (il)
  • TDL 10/1/1905 p.21 Sprinkler system for big dept. store
  • TDL 10/29/1905 p.20 (water tank installed)
  • TDL 7/7/1907 p.16 Department store will be enlarged
  • TDL 7/21/1907 p.17 Permit issued for C St. building (addition by Frederick Heath, arch. and J.E. Bonnell, contr.)
  • TDL 7/12/1908 p.8 Rhodes Brothers open their new tea room
  • TDL 1/9/1910 p.37 (addition)
  • TDL 3/19/1911 p.40 Big store to be twice as large (three-story addition by Frederick Heath, arch. and J.E. Bonnell, contr.) (il) T.Daily Tribune 7/4/1911 ... addition of three stories>(sketch)
  • TDL 8/27/1911 p.15 (ad,sketch)
  • TDL 10/1/1911 p.29 (remodeling by J.E. Bonnell, contr.)
  • TDL 12/3/1911 p.17 (ad for opening of "Greater Rhodes Bros. Store") p.21 Rhodes Brothers enlarged store opens tomorrow (full page) (il)
  • TDL 7/3/1914 p.7 Lunch where the cool breezes blow (il of the Rhodes Roof Garden)
  • TDL 1/4/1920 p.B6 Contract let for store extension; Rhodes Bros. will bridge Court C (Heath & Gove, arch. and J.E. Bonnell, contr.)
  • TDL 4/4/1920 p.B4 Many changes for department store (Rhodes Bros. purchases bdlgs. on Market St. and connects to main store by bridge over alley) (il of alley bridge)
  • TDL 11/7/1920 p.B6 Spend $120,000 on new store addition (il of alley bridge)
  • TDL 12/5/1920 p.B6 Tons of candy for all Tacoma kiddies (interior il of Rhodes candy kitchen)
  • TDL 4/29/1923 p.C6 Rhodes' sign crew on the job now (il)
  • TDL 10/11/1925 p.B1 Store "date" book one index of life
  • TDL 7/25/1927 p.10 (ad,il)
  • TDL 7/9/1928 p.10 (full page ad) (sketch)
  • TDL 4/20/1930 p.D8 (addition to roof)
  • TDL 4/18/1931 p.1 Auto crashes into Rhodes Brothers store window
  • TDL 3/17/1935 p.A1 New elevators for big store T.Times 8/27/1935 Enlarged cash annex will open Wednesday ...
  • TNT 9/5/1935 Rhodes remodeling work in full swing
  • TDL 10/13/1935 p.A14 (ad showingfloor plan of 3rd floor) p.B5 (interior il)
  • TDL 6/14/1936 p.A2 Branch library at Rhodes busy
  • TDL 3/14/1937 p.A6 New department is opened (interior il of men's shoes department)
  • TDL 5/13/1937 p.10 Rhodes new men's shop (interior il)
  • TNT 7/14/1937 p.7 New shop is modern (interior il of Rhodes Bros. Beauty Salon) p.11 (full page ad) T.Times 11/3/1937 p.19 Ox cart days to 1937 - the story of roads and Rhodes (il)
  • TNT 5/20/1938 p.23 Rhodes Brothers in 1938 and 1905 (il)
  • TNT 8/8/1938 p.3 Rhodes' new toiletry department (interior il)
  • TNT 11/13/1938 p.A8,A9 Rhodes Brothers foresight lauded ... first-floor housewarming (interior il)
  • TNT 3/9/1939 p.14 Modernize third floor T.Times 7/19/1939 Pioneers recall road signs by Rhodes T.Times 2/27/1940 Rhodes record shows many contrasts (il)
  • TNT 4/4/1940 p.13 (il)
  • TNT 3/14/1941 p.24 New shop for boys at Rhodes (interior il)
  • TNT 4/17/1941 p.25 Rhodes is ready for biggest annual sale (il)
  • TNT 3/12/1942 p.16,17 New Rhodes parking lot; Market Street site now available for customers (il) T.Times 3/12/1942 Fee parking for Rhodes customers (il)
  • TNT 4/23/1942 p.8 Dollar Day headquarters (il)
  • TNT 5/10/1942 p.B9 Room for 5,000 coats in new vault at Rhodes (interior il)
  • TNT 6/4/1942 p.25-32 Rhodes salutes 50 years of progress (il)
  • TNT 7/1/1942 p.5 Rhodes Bros. organized for war bond sales; corner window is Victory Booth
  • TNT 8/26/1942 p.9 Rhodes new lunchroom ready (interior il)
  • TNT 9/17/1942 p.26-32 Rhodes of yesteryear (il, interior il)
  • TNT 5/31/1943 p.19-24 51st anniversary (il in 1907 and 1943)
  • TNT 6/20/1944 p.9 $1,000 warrior hat (interior il of Greek community war bond headquarters at Tryfon's Hat Shop at 944 1/2 Broadway)
  • TNT 3/19/1946 p.1 Snores betray stocking foot police eluder
  • TNT 5/16/1946 p.12 Rhodes steps ahead with Tacoma (interior il)
  • TNT 5/28/1946 p.1 Leap kills Miss Todd
  • TNT 9/15/1946 p.B9 Betty MacDonald, "Egg, I" author, at Rhodes Mon.
  • TNT 2/10/1949 p.1 Bandit escapes after Rhodes Bros. holdup
  • TNT 8/18/1949 p.3,6 Basement store open (interior il)
  • TNT 6/19/1951 p.3 $485,000 in work OKed (permit for escalators and elevators taken by Western Dept. Stores)
  • TNT 7/1/1951 p.B4 Store plans escalators
  • TNT 12/18/1951 p.1 Tacoma woman heads big department store
  • TNT 1/16/1952 p.11 Three store projects get bldg. permits
  • TNT 1/20/1952 p.C14 Stores plan escalators
  • TNT 4/1/1952 p.11 Escalators operating
  • TNT 6/23/1957 p.A8 Rhodes keeps pace (il of parking lot)
  • TNT 11/4/1959 p.A1 Boy, 5, finds himself locked in big store
  • TNT 11/29/1959 Budget Store promises new buying era
  • TNT 3/27/1960 p.A1,A4 Store plans to build huge parking garage (sketch)
  • TNT 6/6/1960 p.1 Police find Tacoman in tough spot
  • TNT 7/20/1960 Rhodes lot will park 2,500 cars (il of ground breaking)
  • TNT 12/9/1960 p.A14 Fire damages Rhodes store merchandise
  • TNT 3/12/1961 Vast, new Rhodes parking garage to accommodate 2,000 cars daily (il)
  • TNT 6/10/1962 p.B9 ([permit taken to modernize elevator)
  • TNT 7/4/1965 p.C11 (permit taken to remodel third floor)
  • TNT 5/15/1966 Rhodes began as coffee shop in 1892 (il,interior il)
  • TNT 3/21/1967 p.C7 Planners OK "sky-bridge" at Rhodes (sky bridge by Concrete Technology Corp., contr. to connect with parking garage)
  • TNT 5/17/1967 p.C2 Council approves skybridge plan
  • TNT 5/21/1967 p.B1-B10 75th anniversary (il)
  • TNT 11/5/1967 p.C21 (permit taken for pedestrian overcrossing to garage by Earley Construction Co., contr.)
  • TNT 2/11/1968 p.A28 Sky bridge opening tomorrow (il)
  • TNT 2/14/1968 p.C4 Sky bridge opens (il)
  • TNT 11/16/1973 Rhodes plans Mall store
  • TNT 10/4/1974 p.A6,B23 Downtown Rhodes was first of chain (il)
  • TNT 11/10/1974 p.D2 Popular Rhodes Brothers' tea room ... now only a memory (il)
  • TNT 12/28/1974 Rhodes' first link in chain melts away (store to be closed)
  • TNT 12/29/1974 p.F4 Solemn shoppers, employees pay last respects to time-worn Rhodes store
  • TNT 1/12/1976 Old Rhodes building may be knocked down
  • TNT 1/14/1976 Rhodes building spared
  • TNT 2/12/1976 p.A3 Rhodes Building fate pondered (demolition of bldg. proposed) (il)
  • TNT 2/19/1976 Rhodes fate still up in air
  • TNT 3/24/1976 City death march for old building (interior il)
  • TNT 3/31/1976 Council reverses Rhodes wrecking
  • TNT 5/16/1996 p.B4 All Rhodes lead to "family" reunion at department store 658.87 R346M p.84-87,137-142 917.97 W52W 1905 p.45 Rhodes Bros. daylight store (il) 917.972 T11Co p.13 (il) 917.972 T11Ct (il) 979.72 H91 Vol.I p.357,372 (bldg. site once occupied by orchard, Chinese garden) (il) 979.72 T11T p.46 (il) 979.778 H628H Vol.III p.73; Vol.IV p.16 (il of employees in front of bldg.) 979.778 M364T p.73 (il of delivery wagons) 979.778 T119TV p.349-56 All roads lead to Rhodes 979.7788 ST769H p.33 ----- University of Puget Sound Law School / Norton Clapp Law Center
  • TNT 4/26/1978 UPS Law School eyes downton
  • TNT 6/7/1978 UPS seeking loans for law school (sketch)
  • TNT 10/3/1978 Grant makes law school sure bet
  • TNT 2/20/1979 $250,000 grant give to UPS Law School (from the Weyerhaeuser Co.)
  • TNT 5/23/1979 p.A3 UPS downtown law school plan assured
  • TNT 5/27/1979 p.H7 It's all systems go for UPS's new Law Center (remodeling for law school by Burr & Associates, arch.)
  • TNT 8/18/1979 Work under way on Law Center
  • TNT 10/21/1979 UPS Law Center progressing (il, interior il)
  • TNT 8/4/1980 UPS Law Center guaranteed to be ready for Sept. 1 sign-up
  • TNT 9/7/1980 Law Center dedication honors Clapp (il)
  • TNT 11/23/1980 Before and after (il)
  • TNT 10/13/1982 UPS Law Center refinancing plan OK'd by city council
  • TNT 11/9/1993 p.A1 UPS Law School to leave Tacoma
  • TNT 8/13/1999 p.B1 Law school bids farewell to Tacoma; today is official moving day ... 720.28 T119TR p.68-70 (rehab for Norton Clapp Law Center by Burr Associates, arch. and Hoffman Construction Co., contr.) (il) ----- Tacoma Rhodes Center -State of Washington offices housed in the Tacoma Rhodes Center, including the Broadway Bldg., Market Bldg. & Market Garage
  • TNT 3/27/1996 p.C1 State eyes law school site in Tacoma
  • TNT 9/27/1996 p.B1 Downtown Tacoma gets lift as state buys law-school site T.City Paper 2/3/2000 p.A5 Agencies co-locate to save bucks (remodeling by McGranahan Architects, arch.)
  • TNT 3/30/2000 p.D1 Loss of law school meant eventual gain of state offices
  • TNT 1/11/2001 p.B2 Rhodes name to grace downtown building once again
  • TNT 1/12/2001 p.TG6 Pastrami's might bring a real deli into the Tacoma mix (Pastrami's New York Eatery & Expresso to open in bldg.) T.Weekly 2/2/2001 p.3 Tacoma Rhodes Center ready for business
  • TNT 2/4/2001 p.D1 Remaking history (il of bldg. model) Business Examiner 3/19/2001 p.4 (ad,il)
  • TNT 4/24/2001 p.B1 A tale of two buildings ... (remodeling by the McGranahan Partnership, arch., Bob Bonnett principal architect) Business Examiner 5/28/2001 p.19 Featured building (the Berschauer Phillips Construction Co., contr. for remodeling) (il,interior il)
  • TNT 6/22/2001 p.D1 This is no ordinary state office building (interior il)
  • TNT 9/29/2001 p.B2 Court of Appeals will dedicate new courtroom on Tuesday T.Daily Index 10/3/2001 p.1 Grand opening ... (interior il)
  • TNT 10/28/2001 p.D1 Rhodes name lives on downtown (includes history of the Rhodes Dept. Store) (il,interior il) Business Examiner 10/29/2001 p.19 Department store, law school library now hosts conferences
  • TNT 2/1/2002 p.TG7 Uncompromising quality marks Pastrami's menu
  • TNT 2/1/2007 p.A1 The colossus of Rhodes, a tale of disappointment (state puts bldg. up for sale) (il)
  • TNT 7/15/2007 p.B1 Fix two problems at once if county buys the Rhodes
  • TNT 7/20/2007 p.D1 Here's a way for the building to start and the snickering to stop
  • TNT 6/21/2008 p.D1 Tacoma Rhodes Center sold to Housing Authority Puget Sound Business Journal 4/1/2022 p.8 Music Venue boots Tacoma's Nightlife Scene (ext il) Puget Sound Business Journal 11/4/2022 p.6 Rhodes Center adds four new tenants (ext il)
  • Year Built: 1903
  • Decade Built: 1900s