21 images. Northern Pacific Headquarters Bldg. Charles B. Talbot, arch. W.M. Shipley, stone contr. Langford & Bridges, brick contr. Tacoma Lumber & Manufacturing Co., interior contr. -construction begun 8/15/1887 -south wing of bldg. demolished and reconstructed as jail in 1929, jail wing again demolished in 1974 -rehab c.1983 -added to Tacoma Register by Resolution No.23159, 1/2/1975 -added to National Register 5/4/1976 -site includes 617-25 Pacific Ave., 119 So. 7th St. -formerly 661 Pacific Ave., 651 Pacific Ave. -partial plans at TPL
TDL 3/6/1887 p.4 The Northern Pacific building
TDL 4/3/1887 p.4 The big brick building
TDL 8/14/1887 p.4 New Northern Pacific building (city to vacate part of street to allow for larger bldg. site)
TDL 8/16/1887 p.8 Bricks for the big building
TDL 8/26/1887 p.8 The building era (description)
TDL 9/21/1887 p.5 (progress)
TDL 9/25/1887 p.8 The big headquarters building
TDL 10/29/1887 p.8 (progress)
TDL 12/15/1887 p.8 (contract let)
TDL 1/1/1888 p.6 permits
TDL 1/12/1888 p.5 (progress)
TDL 2/25/1888 p.4 (progress)
TDL 5/2/1888 p.4 Something about the heavy cornices of the splendid structure
TDL 5/13/1888 p.5 (contract for interior let)
TDL 7/25/1888 p.4 (progress)
TDL 9/8/1888 p.8 Into Headquarters
TDL 10/28/1888 p.8 The Headquarters Building
TDL 10/31/1888 p.6 At Headquarters Building
TDL 8/18/1889 p.3 Woman's exchange
TDL 9/4/1889 p.5 Dainty and pretty
TDL 3/1/1900 p.3 Offices are now selected (Weyerhaeuser Co.)
TDL 6/24/1900 p.13 Painting the building
TNT 11/23/1932 Museum to get weather vane (original bldg. weather vane to be donated to the Ferry Museum)
TNT 6/6/1934 In Tacoma's family album (interior il of ticket office c.1894)
TNT 11/20/1960 p.B1 Out of Tacoma's past (il of 1917 Labor Day Parade) 352.3 G42S p.7 (il) 385 N711N p.24 (il) 385 W85N p.51 (il) 720.28 L235L Vol.II No.4 p.8, Vol.IV No.4 p.28 917.972 Sp4 979.7 N812 Oct. 1888 p.6 (sketch) 979.72 H91 Vol.I p.385,414 979.7788 G1351D p.29,30 (il) 979.7788 K355T p.51 (interior il) B R482Rg (il of blueprint making on the roof) ----- City Hall Annex / Public Safety Bldg. -plans for remodeling c.1922 by M.J. Nicholson, arch. at TPL -plans for remodeling c.1929 by H.E. Flickinger, arch. at TPL -plans for remodeling c.1950 by A. Gordon Lumm, arch. at TPL
TDL 3/28/1920 p.B4 $300,000 bond issue to make this building a realty ... (sketch of proposed public safety bldg. by Roland E. Borhek, arch.)
TDL 4/6/1922 Railroad sells for $50,000 (city purchases bldg.)
TDL 4/23/1922 p.A4 Plan offices for City Hall Annex
TDL 3/5/1928 p.1 Four bond issues are classed as public safety measures
TDL 3/14/1928 p.1 Tacoma bond issues carry
TDL 4/7/1928 p.3 City's engineers to plan stations (M.J. Nicholson, arch. for remodeling)
TDL 4/10/1928 p.1 City Annex work to be let in June
TDL 4/17/1928 p.3 Storm damage in city heavy; weather vane stands
TDL 4/19/1928 p.1 Annex to City Hall will not be remodeled (proposal for new bldg. on Commerce St.)
TDL 4/26/1928 p.7 Joint building snags are seen
TDL 8/21/1928 p.1 Sale of annex O.K. if $85,000 (proposed sale of bldg.)
TDL 11/8/1928 p.1 City Hall Annex will be rebuilt (south half of bldg. to be reconstructed)
TDL 3/17/1929 p.D10 Razes landmark for new jail site (south wing of bldg. demolished)
TDL 4/21/1929 p.D10 (il of demolition)
TDL 5/19/1929 p.A4 City building progressing (Eivind Anderson, contr. for remodeling)
TDL 10/13/1929 p.A8 New city jail acquires homelike touch (interior il)
TNT 3/16/1938 p.1 Annex hit by flames
TNT 10/16/1938 p.1 Fire hits City Hall Annex
TNT 12/23/1938 p.17 Would link buildings
TNT 4/25/1939 p.15 (il c.1890)
TNT 12/7/1939 p.1 (il c.1890)
TNT 11/17/1943 p.19 Bigger jail for women T.Times 11/17/1943 Women police, pawn shop detail are moved into City Hall annex
TNT 3/30/1944 p.1 Before and after (interior il of women's jail)
TNT 11/15/1946 p.1 New police hdqts. planned here (proposal by Mock & Morrison, arch.)
TNT 8/23/1950 p.10 Donated by official (il of second floor shoe shine stand donated by James T. Kerr)
TNT 12/8/1950 p.1 Fleeing bunny reminds police of olden days
TNT 4/20/1951 p.12 Friday moving day for city police dept.
TNT 10/15/1951 p.1 First session in new court (interior il of police court)
TNT 3/2/1952 p.A16 Air raid shelters ...
TNT 8/31/1952 p.A3 Open house Wednesday for new police "lab"
TNT 6/23/1959 p.32 Allied Art to show model of building plan
TNT 6/28/1959 p.C14 Model spurs drive for art center (il of model)
TNT 7/12/1959 p.D12 How art center may look (floor plan)
TNT 9/13/1959 p.A1 Public Safety Bldg. could be fine arts center (sketch)
TNT 10/6/1959 p.2 Art center plan favored
TNT 10/8/1959 p.A1 Weyerhaeuser revealed as art "angel"
TNT 12/15/1959 p.1 Art center lease voted
TNT 5/10/1960 p.A1 Allied Arts trims its plans for Art Center
TNT 5/14/1961 p.D1,D8 Allied Arts of Tacoma (sketch)
TNT 10/5/1961 p.A1,A11 Anyone in market for City 's spare jail (interior il)
TNT 11/1/1961 p.C10 Safety Bldg. lease given to art group
TNT 11/30/1961 p.A1 New life for old building (il)
TNT 12/15/1961 p.A6 Allied Arts center to get new sign
TNT 2/28/1962 p.A9 $5,000 for renovation of Safety Building OKd
TNT 3/4/1962 p.D12 Arts center renovation to begin (sketch)
TNT 3/15/1962 p.A8 Allied Arts begins remodeling project (interior il)
TNT 5/3/1962 p.A8 Allied Arts paint primers (interior il)
TNT 5/20/1962 p.D12 Arts center dedication date set (interior il)
TNT 6/3/1962 p. A1Allied Arts home dedication near (il,interior il)
TNT 6/5/1962 p.3 Old Safety Building opened as art center
TNT 7/15/1962 p.A1 Art Center far cry from old days (interior il)
TNT 10/28/1962 p.A8 ... approved for fallout shelters
TNT 3/4/1963 p.4 Proposition 5 (bldg. proposed for demolition) (il)
TNT 3/10/1963 p.A1 Art League plans move to center
TNT 4/26/1963 p.A2 Old city jail entered by burglars
TNT 5/29/1963 p.C3 Art League changes name to Museum (Tacoma Art Museum)
TNT 7/21/1963 p.D10 Professional director starts work for Art Museum (interior il)
TNT 1/5/1964 p.D11 Tacoma Art Museum to welcome public at open house (interior il) 709.797 M613D p.45,81 ----- Headquarters Bldg. / One Pacific Bldg.
TNT 5/27/1964 p.C9 Destruction of Old City Hall Annex vowed
TNT 3/17/1965 p.A9 Old City Hall Annex poses "situation"
TNT 2/8/1967 p.4 Allied Arts may redo its present building
TNT 6/21/1967 p.B6 Bids wanted to demolish City Annex
TNT 6/28/1967 p.B10 Annex razing cost rises
TNT 12/15/1967 p.A8 Safety Building annex may be torn down
TNT 3/27/1968 p.D11 Council OKs demolition contract for old Public Safety Building
TNT 4/7/1968 p.A8 Demolition day looms for Tacoma landmark
TNT 4/28/1968 p.A1 Tacoma's doomed dome (il)
TNT 5/22/1968 p.B6 Public Safety Building may be spared
TNT 6/5/1968 Two decisions face Tacoma councilmen
TNT 7/17/1968 p.D12 ... annex won't be demolished
TNT 2/28/1969 p.A1 Old Annex gets a bath (il)
TNT 7/27/1969 p.A22 Old City Hall Annex begins to take shape ... (developer John Wallerich to remodel) (interior il)
TNT 12/21/1969 City Hall Annex will be reborn (proposed remodeling by Wm. R. Hocking, arch. and Brynestad Builders, contr.) (il of model)
TNT 12/27/1970 ... "Ugliest Building" candidates
TNT 8/15/1971 Old police annex nears completion, seeking occupants (sketch)
TNT 4/24/1974 p.A1 Ball and chain strike back (il of demolition of former jail / south wing of bldg.)
TNT 8/6/1974 City, owner wrangle over annex's future
TNT 8/25/1974 Area landmarks (sketch)
TNT 11/30/1975 Old NP headquartes may become landmark
TNT 6/14/1976 Old NP building now officially historic (il)
TNT 7/24/1977 Plaques to commemorate 5 historic landmarks (il)
TNT 4/4/1979 Old rail building gets boost
TNT 6/12/1979 One NP plan dies, another is born
TNT 11/1/1979 Grant to be sought for NP building
TNT 11/11/1979 Dream of restored NP building promised fulfillment (sketch)
TNT 7/4/1981 Old NP Building good buy for right person - agent (il)
TNT 5/9/1982 p.G7 Developers eye renovation of former NP headquarters (il)
TNT 3/20/1991 p.B5 Restored office building going on block
TNT 9/26/2003 p.B1 High time for a break (il of dome being painted)
TNT 12/3/19 p.3A New coworking space opens as work at Old City Hall continues 720.28 L235L Vol.II No.4 p.8 Tacoma's NP Building converted to offices (remodeling by The Harris Architects, arch. for Touchstone Development, Limited) (il in 1888) 720.979 T119TR p.13-15,27-30 (rehab c.1983 by The Harris Architects, arch. and Darrell Adams and Pease & Son, Inc., contr.) (il)
TNT 12/15/2019 p.3A Humming wants to be Tacoma's tech startup company (il)
TNT 3/29/2023 p.A1 Tacoma's Historic One Pacific site, Armour Building for sale (ext il) Puget Sound Musiness Journal 3/17/2023 p.2 Historic sale (ext il) South Sound Business, Feb 2020 p.33-36 Seeding the South Sound (Cover il, il)
The Public Safety Building on Pacific Avenue was also known as the City Hall Annex. Originally built for Northern Pacific Railroad for use as its headquarters in 1887, the City of Tacoma purchased the building in 1922 . The south wing of the Italianate, stucco-covered stone structure was later rebuilt to house the jail. The Old City Hall was directly across the street on Pacific. View of the Public Safety Building taken on May 9, 1958, indicates that this was Police Headquarters, with separate entrances for the detective division and for traffic violators. With the completion of the County-City Building in 1959, the Public Safety Building was vacated. An art center was proposed to occupy the empty space and in 1962, the Allied Arts Center began a remodeling project. A few years later, the Public Safety Building escaped total demolition, although the jail wing was destroyed, and was placed on historic registries. Photograph ordered by Alan Liddle, architect. TPL-6491. (Tacoma Rediviva, p. 27)
Public Safety Building (Tacoma); City Hall Annex (Tacoma); Tacoma Police Department (Tacoma);
On Saturday, February 2, 1924, an unidentified boy smiled his way through a "Schick test" at the Health Department's clinic, located in the City Hall Annex at 621 Pacific Avenue. The "Schick test" was a diagnostic test developed by Bela Schick in 1913 to determine susceptibility to the dreaded disease diphtheria. Children testing positive to the injected toxin in the skin test would then be immunized with inactive toxin. Fifty one children reported to the clinic to be tested on February 2nd. Tests were administered by Dr. C.F. Engles, City Health Officer, assisted by Dr. W.B. Penny and Nurse Elizabeth Ericksen. TPL-1634 (TDL 2/3/1924, pg. 4-A) G27.1-128; TPL-1634
Vaccinations; Health care facilities--Tacoma--1920-1930; Clinics--Tacoma--1920-1930;
People are lined up in early February of 1924 to register to vote. State law required that all voters in incorporated cities and towns had to register to vote every two years. February 5th was the last day to register to vote in the city primary to be held on February 26th. The registration office at the City Hall Annex was open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily but Genevieve Martin, city clerk, stated that registration would be extended to midnight on the last day if necessary. 2,460 people lined up to register on February 5th, making it the busiest day for registration that year. The final total of registered voters was 31,686 out of the 40,000 eligible. G42.1-073 (TNT 10-30-23, p. 1-article; TDL 1-7-24, p. 3-article; TDL 2-5-24, p. 1-article; TNT 2-5-24, p. 4; TDL 2-6-24, p. 12)
Glory Ragland (second from left), a public health service nurse, and Percy Brush, look on as a dentist who preferred to remain anonymous provided free dental work to a young patient at the new free dental clinic in the City Hall Annex, 621 Pacific Ave. Opened January 21, 1924 and organized by the Kiwanis Club with the cooperation of county, professional and fraternal organizations, the clinic provided free dental services Monday and Tuesday from 9 am to 12 noon, with a local dentist on duty to volunteer his services. A room in the annex had been completely furnished and painted white. The Kiwanis and Elks provided the equipment. Percy Brush was president of the Kiwanis and chairman of the committee responsible for the clinic when it was founded. (TDL 3/26/1924, pg. 3) TPL-659; G27.1-118
Ragland, Glory; Brush, Percy; Dentistry--Tacoma--1920-1930; Dental equipment & supplies--1920-1930; Dental hygiene--Tacoma; Health care facilities--Tacoma;
Dwight Howell, behind the wheel of a new Ford convertible from Titus Motor Company, is not receiving a ticket. He has just been honored for being a top student driver. In March of 1941, Ford Motor Co. started the Ford Good Driver League. They worked with police and public safety organizations to encourage traffic safety and good driving habits. This photograph was taken in front of the Public Safety Building at 621 Pacific Avenue. The man at the far left is probably Tacoma Chief of Police Einer Langseth. Howell went on to win the Washington State Finals and represent Washington at the Nationals in August, 1941. The 17 year old Howell graduated from Stadium High School in the Spring of 1941.
Howell, Dwight; Ford automobile; Titus Motor Co. (Tacoma); Law enforcement--Tacoma; Law enforcement officers--Tacoma;
Modelling the latest in "tin hats" and armbands are Civilian Defense officers, left to right, Joseph Lanser, Frank Evans and George Russell. On Friday, April 17, 1942, Tacoma received its first shipment of steel helmets and armbands for their Air Raid Wardens. The shipment included 250 of each. The "tin hats" were made of steel thick enough to protect the wearer from shrapnel splinters. The trio is posing at the Civilian Defense Volunteer office at the City Hall Annex. (T. Times 4/18/1942, pg. 1)
World War, 1939-1945--Civil defense--Tacoma; Lanser, Joseph; Evans, Frank; Russell, George; Helmets; Flags--United States;