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1019 PACIFIC AVE, TACOMA

  • Peerless Saloon
  • TDL 4/17/1898 p.5 (description of interior)
  • TDL 9/29/1898 p.3 Will be a swell resort
  • TDL 3/10/1907 p.18 (steel ceiling by A.F. Cizek, contr.)
  • TDL 12/19/1915 p.27 Old landmarks go with booze (Prohibition)
  • TDL 2/13/1916 p.24 Landmark vanishes for two-story modern building on Avenue
  • Year Built:
  • Decade Built:
  • Demolished

1019 PACIFIC AVE, TACOMA

  • Charles Drury Bldg J.E. Bonnell, contr.
  • TDL 2/13/1916 p.24 Landmark vanishes for two-story modern building on Avenue
  • TDL 4/9/1916 p.10 permits
  • TDL 4/16/1916 p.28 Court stops work on Drury building
  • TDL 7/23/1916 p.24 (alterations) Plans for a proposed hotel by Sutton, Whitney & Dugan at TPL, digitized
  • Year Built: 1916
  • Decade Built: 1910s
  • Demolished

1019 PACIFIC AVE, TACOMA

  • Washington Bldg. Frederick Webber (Philadelphia) , arch. (original design) Doyle & Merriam, arch. (remodeling/completion) Rounds-Clist, contr. (remodeling/completion) David L. Glenn, supt. of construction (remodeling/completion) -bldg. started in 1919 for the Scandinavian-American Bank, but construction was halted after the bank failed, bldg. completed in 1925 for the Washington-California Co . -dedicated 06/29/1925 -17 stories, 237 ft . -"second tallest in the entire Northwest" -"high speed elevators" -site includes 1019-27 Pacific Ave. , 113-21 So. 11th St -partial plans for Arthur Remington remodel by Sutton, Whitney & Dugan architects at TPL -occupants included: Brotherhood Cooperative, National Bank, Tacoma Oriental Steamship Co., Blyth & Co., Personal Finance Co., Washington Minor Hospital, Tacoma Club, American Savings & Loan Assoc., Tacoma Merchants Credit Union, Great Northern Realty Co., United Mutual Savings Bank, Sterling Financial Corp.
  • TDL 07/27/1919 B6 15-story bank building for city assured (sketch) T.Times 07/28/1919 (sketch)
  • TDL 10/12/1919 B5 Bank building will be model (sketch of proposed interiors)
  • TDL 10/19/1919 D2 Dinner compliments Philadelphia architect
  • TDL 01/04/1920 B5 Plans here for new skyscraper
  • TDL 01/25/1920 B7 Landmarks fast becoming history
  • TDL 02/08/1920 B5 Arrives here to manage building (Percy C. Shanstrom)
  • TDL 02/15/1920 C1 (il of demolition of the Berlin Bldg.)
  • TDL 02/22/1920 p.1 Skyscraper to be virtually Tacoma-built p.B5 (sketch)
  • TDL 02/29/1920 B5 More contracts awarded for new bank building
  • TDL 04/11/1920 B4 (Standard Oil leases entire 10th floor) (floor plan of office floors)
  • TDL 06/06/1920 B5 Steel for bank building is on way from east
  • TDL 09/26/1920 B7 Greatest shipment of steel unloaded (il)
  • TDL 10/24/1920 B7 Laying huge girders for bank building
  • TDL 11/14/1920 B7 Great steel beams attract attention (il under construction)
  • TDL 01/16/1921 A1 Scandinavian American Bank of Tacoma closed (bank failure) (bldg. proposed as hotel)
  • TDL 09/18/1921 B5 Start work to place roof on bank building (to secure bldg. after bank failure)
  • TDL 03/25/1923 B10 May complete iron skeleton
  • TDL 04/17/1923 p.1 Way open to S.A. Bank Building sale
  • TDL 07/04/1923 p.1 Sale of S.A. Bank Building ordered
  • TDL 09/02/1923 A1 Bank frame completion is forecast A3 (il)
  • TDL 03/07/1924 p.1 Mellon pushes S.A. deal in Tacoma; Secretary of Treasury is head of McClintic-Marshall Company which relinquishes big claim
  • TDL 03/12/1924 p.1 Skeleton's completion confirmed
  • TDL 04/27/1924 A1 Completion of skeleton anticipated
  • TDL 04/28/1924 p.1 Owners tell plans for S.A. skeleton
  • TDL 05/27/1924 p.1 Push completion of S.A. building
  • TDL 05/28/1924 p.1 Chapin plans improvement in building
  • TDL 06/11/1924 p.1 Start work completing skyscraper (Doyle & Merriam, arch. and David L. Glenn, supt. of construction)
  • TDL 08/07/1924 p.10 Will open bids…
  • TDL 08/10/1924 B10 Incorporate to complete big building (Washington-California Co.)
  • TDL 08/24/1924 B4 Skyscraper to be completed in six months
  • TDL 08/31/1924 A8 (il under construction)
  • TDL 09/14/1924 A1 Washington Building leased for new railroad brotherhood's bank (Brotherhood Cooperative National Bank)
  • TDL 09/25/1924 p.1 (il under construction)
  • TDL 10/19/1924 E8 (il under construction)
  • TDL 11/16/1924 A1 S.A. losers win $50,000 by decision
  • TDL 11/30/1924 E8 Tacoman gets steel contract
  • TDL 01/25/1925 A2 Make strides on big building
  • TDL 01/27/1925 p.1 (il under construction)
  • TDL 03/18/1925 p.2 Work of installing bank safe starts
  • TDL 04/08/1925 Suppl. (il under construction)
  • TDL 04/29/1925 p.1 Finds job in search of thrill ; young man amazes street crowds with impromptu exhibition on cornice…
  • TDL 05/26/1925 p.1 (il)
  • TDL 05/31/1925 E8 New structure towers on sky line of Tacoma (il) Pacific Builder & Eng. 06/06/1925 p.9 Contractors complete big Tacoma office building (il)
  • TDL 06/27/1925 p.9 Skyscraper to open on Monday
  • TDL 06/28/1925 B1-B5 Washington Building marks big forward step for city (il)
  • TDL 06/30/1925 p.1 City dedicates new structure
  • TNT 06/30/1925 (il)
  • TDL 07/01/1925 p.1 Bank is ready to open doors (Brotherhood Cooperative National Bank)
  • TDL 07/02/1925 p.4 Doors of new bank opened (interior il)
  • TDL 07/05/1925 E8 Party atop skyscraper views city
  • TDL 02/04/1926 p.1 Exposition is drawing well (Southwest Washington Manufacturers Exposition)
  • TDL 02/07/1926 A2 (il)
  • TDL 02/25/1926 p.8 Much wealth locked up in these boxes (interior il)
  • TDL 07/19/1926 p.1 Ole Larson home again... after release from prison (connected with Scandinavian-American Bank failure)
  • TDL 01/15/1928 A1 Rabbits and pigs live high (scientific zoo housed on top of bldg.)
  • TDL 03/10/1928 p.1 Liquidation of bank is completed (Scandinavian-American Bank)
  • TDL 04/10/1928 Gravure Sec. p.2 (il)
  • TNT 04/24/1928 (Tacoma Oriental Steamship Co . leases part of bldg.)
  • TDL 02/17/1929 E8 (Blyth & Co. to remodel offices)
  • TDL 04/09/1929 Gravure Sec. p.3 (il)
  • TDL 10/31/1929 p.7 Finance firm opens new office (interior il of Personal Finance Co.)
  • TNT 09/17/1936 New social club starts ; "Tacoma" Club to be business, professional body
  • TDL 12/27/1936 B1... bid in for $451,000 (bldg . to be sold at sheriff's sale)
  • TNT 05/10/1937 House warming for Tacoma Club (interior il) T.Times 05/10/1937 New Tacoma Club's "open house" this evening (interior il)
  • TDL 05/11/1937 p.1 Downtown men's club is opened (Tacoma Club leases quarters on 16th, 17th and 18th floors)
  • TNT 08/29/1937 B8 Moving to new office (American Savings & Loan Assoc. leases space on first floor)
  • TNT 11/13/1939 p.1 Tacoma and N.W. jarred by tremblor (minor damage to bldg.)
  • TNT 04/30/1940 B6 (interior il of Tacoma Merchants Credit Bureau)
  • TNT 06/27/1940 p.7 Store has open house (interior il of Camera Shop at 1021 Pacific Ave)
  • TNT 08/25/1940 B14 (ad for Great Northern Realty Co.) (il)
  • TNT 07/17/1941 p.1 Sign up for three years (interior il of military induction station)
  • TNT 11/24/1941 p.1 After spectacular collision (il)
  • TNT 12/21/1941 A14 Un. Mutual opens up in new home
  • TNT 12/25/1941 p.4 United Mutual's new home (interior il) T.Times 04/08/1943 U.S. leases 6 floors of building
  • TNT 05/19/1943 p.1... into new quarters (Internal Revenue Service takes space in bldg.)
  • TNT 07/06/1943 p.1 John S. Baker buys Washington Bldg. (il)
  • TNT 03/26/1948 p.1 Washington Bldg. bandit caught
  • TNT 02/20/1949 It's a living... elevator operator
  • TNT 02/19/1952 A18 (permit for addition at 117 So. 11th St. by Udall Construction Co., contr.)
  • TNT 03/02/1952 A16 Air raid shelters…
  • TNT 10/17/1952 B2 (interior il of Horluck's Restaurant)
  • TNT 07/27/1953 p.1 IRB office equipment headed for Seattle
  • TNT 01/10/1954 A7 Completely remodeled (sketch of United Mutual Savings Bank)
  • TNT 01/15/1954 p.7 United Mutual in new remodeled quarters (interior il)
  • TNT 12/05/1954 A19 15 stories up... (il of window washer)
  • TNT 01/11/1956 A1 17-story building loses elevators in wiring fire
  • TNT 11/02/1957 p.1 Squeegee falls, hits pedestrian
  • TNT 06/22/1958 Who-o-o-se tooth? (il of owl perched on bldg.)
  • TNT 01/20/1963 B9 (remodeling of Karlen-Davis Co. offices on 7th floor)
  • TNT 04/29/1963 p.2 Light up the sky (huge neon sign for the Bank of California installed on roof top)
  • TNT 08/18/1963 B5 (permit taken for alterations to the Tacoma Club)
  • TNT 07/05/1964 A10 Remodeling work completed at United Mutual
  • TNT 10/18/1964 B8 (permit taken for installation of windows)
  • TNT 06/13/1965 B6 Washington Building to get U.S. attention (to appear in Buildings Magazine)
  • TNT 1/17/1968 p.B2 Investment firm given Ford award (John S. Baker Investment Co.) T.Review 09/19/1973 Hospital began with 7 beds… (mention that the Washington Minor Hospital, predecessor of Allenmore Hospital, first opened in the Washington Bldg. in 1929)
  • TNT 07/06/1975 Time Machine: Washington Building erected to fit city's business needs (il)
  • TNT 02/09/1989 D4 Facelift for Tacoma landmark (il)
  • TNT 10/30/1991 Tacoma Club to cross street for more efficient site
  • TNT 01/27/1996 B4 The Vault will unlock lots of activity in downtown Tacoma ("restaurant-reception facility" to open)
  • TNT 04/20/1996 B4 The Vault swings open in stages downtown Tacoma
  • TNT 08/25/1998 C7 Tacoma entrepreneurs find keys to downtown dining in Vault (The Vault Bar & Grill adds space by leasing the former Tacoma Club space on the 17th floor) T.Daily Index 09/15/2000 p.1 Gas leak cause of evacuation
  • TNT 07/22/2001 B2 Bits of concrete fall from building on Pacific Avenue
  • TNT 08/06/2003 B2 Man pleads not guilty to rape in incident at The Vault T.Daily Index 08/04/2005 p.1 Historic Washington Building sold for $9.6 million (il)
  • TNT 08/05/2005 D1 Washington Building sells (il) T.Daily Index 01/07/2008 p.1 New tenant, lobby renovation for downtown Washington Building (remodeling for the Stratford Co. LLC) (Sterling Financial Corp. leases entire 13th floor) T.Daily Index 01/20/2009 p.1 Downtown lobby or history museum? (interior il) T.Daily Index 04/03/2009 p.1 Historic honor for downtown Washington Building; nomination would place 1925 building on National Historic Register (il)
  • TNT 04/03/2009 D1 Washington Building in Tacoma seeks landmark designation
  • TNT 06/21/2009 B1 Mysteries of history.. . (missing Pegasus flying horse neon sign) T.Daily Index 12/17/2010 p.1 Historic buildings, historic recession T.Daily Index 01/13/2011 p.1 High hopes for historic Tacoma skyscraper (il) T.Daily Index 03/20/2012 p.1 Community Health Care to move administrative staff to Washington Building (il) T.Weekly 07/03/2015 B4 Popular night spot, Encore, closing (interior il)
  • TNT 05/12/2016 A1 Tacoma's historic downtown high-rise hits hard times (il)
  • TNT 11/26/2016 A1 Washington Building may see new life (il)
  • TNT 01/04/2017 A14 Washington Building sale opens the door for more downtown apartments in Tacoma
  • TNT 01/12/2017 A8 Washington Building tenants moving out as renovation starts Puget Sound Business Journal 2/17/2023 p.16 Tacoma landlords are turning offices into apartments 979.7 B64 Vol.II p.783, History of Pierce County, Washington by W. P. Bonney: Scandinavian-American Bank failure 979.7 W28A April 1928 Washingtonian : a state magazine of progress: (il) 979.7788 ST769H p.47, Hidden history of Tacoma : little-known tales from the city of destiny by Karla Stover
  • Year Built: 1925
  • Decade Built: 1920s
  • On City Historic Register;