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- 12 images National Bank of Tacoma Sutton, Whitney & Dugan, arch. Albertson, Cornell Bros. & Walsh, contr. -Wilkeson sandstone -plans at TPL -added to National Register 08/01/2007 -site includes 1121-23 Pacific Ave. TNT 06/24/1920 p. 22 New bank structure will be handsome (sketch) TDL 07/26/1920 p. 6 (sketch) TDL 01/02/1921 B6 (il) TDL 02/27/1921 B4 New bank home will be ready early in June (il under construction) TDL 03/06/1921 B5 Bank building will use central heat TDL 05/29/1921 A11, F1 (special grand opening suppl.) TDL 06/05/1921 A2 Hundreds inspect bank's new home p.B5 Concrete given careful testing (bldg. built to last “decades, even centuries”) TDL 01/01/1922 B5 (il) TDL 01/04/1925 B4 (interior il) TNT 11/30/1927 p. 6 (architectural award) Architect & Eng. Mar. 1928 p.55 TDL 03/28/1937 C9 (ad, sketch of interior) 338.973 P83Pt The Port and city of Tacoma; annual review of shipping, manufactures and development of the city of Tacoma 1921 p. 26 (sketch); 1923 p. 84 (il) 720 ST711S Stone : ten thousand years ago and now / pen drawings and historical data by Muriel Cambern (il) 979.7 W28A Apr. 1928 (il) ----- National Bank of Washington T.Times 8/17/1937 Ask right to change name of bank here TNT 4/4/1938 p.14 Gold of daffodils fills bank lobby (interior il) TNT 11/14/1939 p.1 Tacoma and N.W. jarred by tremblor ... large stone is thrown from bank building TNT 4/7/1940 p.A6 To improve bank space TNT 4/10/1940 p.7 It's tulip time again (interior il) TNT 8/25/1940 p.C15 Bank has been remodeled (interior il) TNT 4/22/1941 p.5 (il) T.Times 12/3/1941 p.10 (interior il) TNT 12/4/1941 p.4 Rehabilitation program for bank now complete (interior il) TNT 7/15/1951 p.B4 Bank tunnel under 12th ready soon TNT 7/29/1951 p.C12 National Bank of Washington tunnel (il) TNT 4/11/1954 p.A12 Modernizing is completed (interior il of third floor) TNT 10/6/1959 p.13 Bank to raze garage for parking space TNT 11/4/1960 p.B1-B5,B8 Oldest bank modernized and expanded (interior il) TNT 5/7/1963 p.A1 Vivid optical illusion results in false alarm TNT 7/15/1966 p.1 Robber takes $1,560 at downtown bank ----- Tacoma Art Museum -opened 5/25/1971 -Dr. Lester S. Baskin Hall, Sara Little Center for Design Research, Helen B. Murray Gallery TNT 1/9/1970 p.1 Art Museum to have new home (il) TNT 1/11/1970 p.A18 A new era for the Tacoma Art Museum (interior il) TNT 5/23/1971 p.E1,E2 Art Museum open for business (il,interior il) TNT 5/26/1971 p.A1 Many view art works, new museum (guests included Governor Dan Evans) Progressive Architecture Mar. 1973 p.42 Old bank becomes new Tacoma Art Museum (remodeling by Alan Liddle, arch. and Charles Rueger, associate arch.) Interiors Magazine June 1973 p.6-8 Bank recycled into museum A.I.A. Journal June 1976 p.34 Tacoma bank made into an art museum (interior il) TNT 1/12/1997 p.A1 Tacoma Art Museum exhibit hailed as “watershed moment”; Catalan Masters in Tacoma TNT 8/6/2000 p.A1 Growing pains test TAM ... a look at the history of the museum Business Examiner 9/3/2001 p.17 TAM is banking on historic building ... (sketch) TNT 4/27/2003 p.D3 Old-fashioned tea held to bid farewell to old building 709.797 M613D 979.778 H628H Vol.III p.96 ----- Asia Pacific Cultural Center -unofficial opening 10/3/2003 TNT 2/14/2002 p.A1 Asia Pacific Cultural Center buys museum (sketch) T.Daily Index 3/8/2002 p.1 ... plans move along (il) Northwest Asian Weekly 8/10/2002 p.1 Asian cultural center buying Tacoma Art Museum's home (sketch) TNT 4/5/2003 p.B1 Asia center asks for more funding to meet deadline Business Examiner 4/14/2003 p.1 Culture center finds inspiration in setback Business Examiner 4/28/2003 p.1 How great thou art? (sketch) TNT 4/29/2003 p.B2 Funds needed quickly to buy TAM site T.Weekly 5/2/2003 p.A1 Time running out for APCC (sketch) TNT 7/24/2003 p.D1 Asia Pacific center has home Business Examiner 8/4/2003 p.1 Cultural Center beats deadline for purchase T.Weekly 10/9/2003 p.A6 World premier opens new Asia Pacific Cultural Center (Smiles of Korea exhibit) Northwest Asian Weekly 5/14/2005 p.1 Asian cultural center closes its doors; building sold; future of APCC unclear ----- Invivo Health Partners T.Weekly 6/22/2006 p.A3 ... recommended for historic register TNT 6/23/2006 p.D1 Coffee-shop dreams become health care solutions TNT 11/30/2006 p.B2 Remove false panels, and viola! (remodeling for Pacific Partners by Rushforth Construction, contr.) (interior il) ----- Sound Inpatient Physicians TNT 11/9/2007 p.D1 Doctors take over bank (interior il)
- Year Built: 1921
- Decade Built: 1920s
- On National Historic Register
- Style: Italian Renaissance