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- 6 images. Holy Rosary Catholic Church C. Frank Mahon / Lundberg & Mahon, arch. -cornerstone laid 5/30/1920 -dedicated 11/24/1921 -added to Tacoma Register by Resolution No.23502, 8/19/1975 -steeple is 54 ft., 270 ft. from ground to top of cross (the tallest church in Washington State)
- TDL 9/28/1919 p.B7 Holy Rosary to build next year (sketch)
- TDL 2/1/1920 p.B6 Start excavation for new church
- TDL 5/30/1920 p.A10 Lay cornerstone for church today
- TDL 8/22/1920 p.B5 Electric heating in Holy Rosary Church (il under construction)
- TDL 1/2/1921 p.B6 (il)
- TDL 11/6/1921 p.E7 Bishop O'Dea to dedicate city church
- TDL 11/20/1921 p.A15 Dedicate church on Thanksgiving Day (il under construction)
- TNT 11/24/1921 New $200,000 church edifice dedicated
- TNT 11/25/1921 Crowds see blessing of new church (il)
- TDL 1/1/1922 p.B5 (il)
- TDL 3/12/1922 p.D7 New organ to be dedicated
- TNT 5/16/1925 (il)
- TDL 4/10/1928 Gravure Sec. p.3 (il) T.Times 7/27/1929 Holy Rosary is landmark (il)
- TDL 5/29/1934 p.C8 (il)
- TDL 3/26/1935 p.B7 (il)
- TNT 10/8/1938 p.6 Church installs address system (il)
- TNT 10/16/1941 p.6 To mark half century (il) T.Times 10/20/1941 Golden anniversary for church T.Reporter 7/9/1952 p.6 (permit taken for foundation)
- TNT 9/21/1952 p.C12 Holy Rosary will change heating plant (il)
- TNT 5/29/1955 Tacoma displays many towers and spires (il)
- TNT 11/4/1956 p.A15 Holy Rosary Church steam-cleaned (il)
- TNT 2/3/1963 Magazine p.1 (il)
- TNT 11/1/1964 p.A1 They liveat the end of their rope hundreds of feet over your head (il of steeplejack)
- TNT 4/29/1965 p.A1,A5 Violent earthquake rumbles across NW;Tacoma damaged (cross falls from rooftop during earthquake)
- TNT 7/24/1966 Magazine p.4 Holy Rosary Church expects thousands to attend diamond jubilee (includes brief history of church)
- TNT 8/10/1966 p.C5 Holy Rosary to raise cross for anniversary (16 ft. high aluminum cross to replace cross topled in 1965 earthquake)
- TNT 8/15/1966 p.11 Holy Rosary Church gets new cross (il)
- TNT 11/29/1966 p.A1 Baby left on church's doorstep (il)
- TNT 11/30/1966 p.C10 Woman makes claim to abandoned baby
- TNT 12/3/1966 p.1 Abandoned baby baptized as William Joseph
- TNT 1/31/1967 p.27 Doorstep foundling now ward of court
- TNT 3/3/1968 p.D12 This was early Tacoma (sketch) T.Review 2/23/1972 Paint job requires 45-ft. staging (interior il)
- TNT 2/11/1973 Tacoma landmarks (sketch) T.Review 8/13/1975 Buildings designated landmarks (il)
- TNT 10/9/1977 p.A7 Holy Rosary, legacy of early Tacoma Germans
- TNT 7/13/1991 p.A6 Centennial commemoration (interior il)
- TNT 8/31/1994 p.A1 A higher calling (il of renovation work)
- TNT 11/12/1994 p.B1 Landmark steeple sparkles ... repair includes eye-catching copper spire (il)
- TNT 9/18/2009 p.A5 Winning photo (il)
- TNT 10/4/2009 p.D1 Tacoma's treasured places (il)
- TNT 3/3/2019 p.A1 Crumbling Catholic church needs $10 M in fixes to save it (il)
- TNT 8/25/2019 p.A1 Archbishop says Holy Rosary church will be demolished (il)
- TNT 9/1/2019 p.A3 Parishioners, others working on plan to save Holy Rosary Church from demolition (il) p.A11 Can a Hail Mary save iconic church? It's worth a shot (il) T.Weekly 9/1/2019 p.1 Holy Rosary community works to save iconic church (il) Northwest Catholic Oct. 2019 p.9 Iconic Tacoma church building to be razed (il)
- TNT 10/15/2019 p.A1 New Seattle archbishop's letter puts Holy Rosary demolition on hold (il)
- TNT 5/19/2022 p.2A Can merger boot the Catholic faith in Tacoma? 4 congregations about to find out (ext il) 270 T279T p.20 979.778 H628H Vol.I p.86; Vol.III p.48 (il in 1989); p.309 Swetz Family (mention of steeple construction)
- TNT 12/5/19 p.3A Tacoma Foundation gives $500,000 to save Catholis chruch (il) South Sound Business, July 2020 p.31-33 "The Fate of the Faithful" (il)
- Year Built: 1921
- Decade Built: 1920s
- On City Historic Register
- Style: Gothic