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Vol. CXXIII, No. 149
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF TACOMA Devoted to the Courts, Real Estate, Finance, Industrial Activities, and Publication of Legal Notices
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Public hearing Aug. 13 for 3 Tacoma school buildings historic nominations Article By Todd Matthews, Editor Images Courtesy Tacoma Landmarks Preservation Commission Tacoma's Landmarks Preservation Commission is gathering public comments regarding a recent effort to nominate three local public school buildings to the City of Tacoma's Register of Historic Places. McKinley Hill Elementary School, located at 3720 McKinley Ave., was built in 1908 and designed by architect Frederick Heath, who also designed the Pythian Temple, Stadium High School, and the Ansonia Hoyt Elementary Building. Last year, HisSchool, located at 2708 N. Union St., toric Tacoma, a non-profit is one of three puborganization that advolic school buildings cates for the protection and recently nominated to preservation of the city's the City of Tacoma's historic buildings and arRegister of Historic chitectural heritage, placed the McKinley Hill Elemen- Places. The mid-centary School building on its tury modern building was constructed in Watch List of endangered 1957 and designed properties. Oakland Elby Tacoma architect ementary School, located Robert Billsbrough at 3319 S. Adams St., was Price, who also debuilt in 1912 and designed signed Tacoma Fire by Heath and his business Station No. 17, the partner, George Gove. FiTacoma Bicentennial nally, Hoyt Elementary Pavilion, and Sky TerSchool, located at 2708 N. race Apartments. Union St., was built in 1957 and designed by Tacoma architect Robert Billsbrough Price, who also designed Tacoma Fire Station No. 17, the Tacoma Bicentennial Pavilion, and Sky Terrace Apartments. The nominations were prepared by preservation activist Marshall McClintock on behalf of Historic Tacoma. Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement, Western Washington, or "Docomomo WEWA," a Seattle-based non-profit organization focusing on the preservation of mid-century modern architecture in the Pacific Northwest, has written a letter supporting the nomination of Hoyt Elementary School because "it is an outstanding example of modern institutional design and is an excellent example of the work of architect Robert Billsbrough Price, one of Tacoma's most prolific and CONTINUED prominent designers." ON PAGE 2
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