Completed St. Joseph's Hospital. The uniquely designed hospital was 189 feet tall and 14 stories. Built at a cost of about $13,000,000, the hospital was reportedly the first in the world to use a circular floor design. Walls were ten inches thick and there was enough concrete used in the building construction for five miles of freeway. The hospital was dedicated on December 15, 1974 and accepted its first hospital transfer on January 31, 1975, three weeks later than first scheduled. Photograph ordered by Bertrand Goldberg & Associates, Chicago. (TNT 1-24-74, D-4 article; TNT 12-12-74, A-2-article)
Hospitals--Tacoma--1970-1980; St. Josephs Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma);