PCAD - Tacoma Building, Downtown, Tacoma, WA

AKA: Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, World Headquarters #1, Downtown, Tacoma, WA; Tacoma Commercial Club, Downtown, Tacoma, WA

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - corporate headquarters; built works - commercial buildings - office buildings

Fire insurance map location for the Tacoma Building, Tacoma, WA, 1912. From Library of Congress.gov, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, Tacoma, WA, 1912-01/1950, Vol. 1, Map #108

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Downtown, Tacoma, WA

Overview

In 1900, lumber giant, the Weyerhaeuser Corporation, bought 900,000 acres of Washington state timberland from the Northern Pacific Railway, and shifted its base of operations from the Midwest to Tacoma, WA. Originally, Weyerhaeuser rented land in various Tacoma buildings for its main offices, but by 1910, it partnered with the Tacoma Commercial Club to build the Tacoma Building, where it would maintain its headquarters from 1910 until about 1971, when it built its remarkable five-story office building in Federal Way, WA.

PCAD id: 19631

Tacoma Building, Downtown, Tacoma, WA (1910)