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TPL-4061
Date(s)
- 1911 (Creation)
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ca. 1911. South Tacoma Branch Library, corner So. 56th and Puget Sound Ave. This was the first branch library in a building of its own in the Tacoma Public Library System. The idea grew from the Women's Christian Temperance Union's South Tacoma Reading Room, opened in 1905 as an alternative to South Tacoma's numerous saloons. This branch library building opened in 1911, the same year as Union Station. It was designed by George Gove, Architect and W. K. Steele served as contractor. Cost of construction was $3,620. In 1958, the building was judged to be unsafe and obsolete. It was demolished and replaced in 1959 with a modern $112,000 library and fire station. TPL-4269
Tacoma Public Library, South Tacoma Branch (Tacoma); Public libraries--Tacoma;