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AKA: City Hall Annex / Public Safety Building, Tacoma, WA; Allied Arts Center / Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - corporate headquarters; built works - commercial buildings - office buildings; built works - social and civic buildings - correctional institutions - prisons
Designers: Anderson, Eivind, Building Contractor (firm); Langford and Bridges, Building Contractors (firm); Shipley, W.M., Building Contractor (firm); Tacoma Lumber and Manufacturing Company (firm); Talbot, Charles B., Architect (firm); Eivind Anderson (building contractor); Bridges (building contractor); Langford (building contractor); M. J. Nicholson (architect); W. M. Shipley (building contractor); Charles B. Talbot (architect)
Dates: constructed 1887-1888
4 stories
Construction began on this building in 08/15/1887, and was completed by 09/1888. The Weyerhauser Company utilized the Northern Pacific Headquarters for its offices after 1900. The Northern Pacific Railroad sold the building to the City of Tacoma in 04/1922 for use as its City Hall Annex / Public Safety Building. The city purchased the building for $50,000. City officials decided to demolish the southern portion of the building and construct a new jail in 1928-1929.
rehab c.1983 by The Harris Architects, arch. and Darrell Adams and Pease & Son, Inc., contr.)
The south wing of the Northern Pacific Headquarters Building was demolished in 03-04/1929; on its site, the City of Tacoma erected a jail, or what was known as the City Hall Annex / Public Safety Building. Eivind Anderson worked as the Building Contractor for the jail. This jail annex was, in turn, demolished in 04/1974. The rest of the Northern Pacific Headquarters Building was restored c. 1983 by The Harris Architects, and Darrell Adams and Pease & Son, Incorporated, Building Contractors. It was renamed the Headquarters Building / One Pacific Building after this time.
Tacoma Register of Historic Places (01/02/1975): 23159
National Register of Historic Places (May 4, 1976): 76001901 NRHP Images (pdf) NHRP Registration Form (pdf)
PCAD id: 8575
