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Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index - Image Display (new Building search)
Displaying Record #17487
| Address | Built | Demolished | Style | Registry? | Images? |
| 2111 SO. J ST., Tacoma | 1925 | | modified Gothic | City | 5 Images | Morton Matthew McCarver Intermediate School
Hill & Mock, arch.
Bachelor & Wallin, contr.
-opened 11/2/1925
-dedicated 3/26/1926
-renamed McCarver Junior High School in 1928,
elementary classes added in 1938, became
McCarver Elementary School in 1968 after
junior high classes were discontinued
-addition in 1962
-named in honor of Tacoma founder and early
school district director Morton Matthew McCarver
-added to the Tacoma Register
in Dec. 2010
TDL 8/7/1924 p.10 McCarver School plans
inspected (hard copy only)
T.Times 11/13/1924 p.1 Call bids on school Dec. 5
TDL 11/30/1924 p.E8 Will let third bid on Friday
TDL 12/6/1924 p.1 Four local firms win
contracts
TDL 1/25/1925 p.E8 Work started on new
school
TDL 8/30/1925 p.A12 (il)
TNT 9/3/1925 (il)
TDL 11/1/1925 p.A12 New McCarver School
opens (il)
TDL 3/7/1926 p.A8 (il)
TNT 3/19/1926 ... to be dedicated
TDL 3/21/1926 p.A12 McCarver ready for
dedication
TDL 3/27/1926 p.1 Pay honor to city builder
in rites at school (hard copy only)
TDL 4/14/1926 Suppl. (il)
TNT 11/30/1927 p.6 (architectural award)
T.Times 10/19/1929 Faculty of Morton
McCarver Intermediate School (il)
T.Times 1/10/1941 After many years
TNT 4/16/1946 p.5 Teenagers file plaint
(against closing of teen recreation centers)
TNT 4/17/1946 p.5 Centers to stay open
TNT 9/25/1960 p.D10 Painting to be presented
to McCarver
TNT 1/12/1961 p.14 Blocking of McCarver unit
is thwarted (protest over school segregation)
TNT 3/12/1962 New primary rooms opened
at McCarver (Worthen, Wing, Seifert &
Forbes, arch.)
TNT 11/25/1962 p.A14 McCarver dedication
set Tuesday (il)
TNT 11/25/1964 p.1 Special high school proposed
at McCarver
TNT 4/12/1968 p.1 McCarver Junior High to be
closed (to be elementary school only)
TNT 5/5/1968 McCarver to serve as
elementary unit
TNT 6/20/2001 p.B3 McCarver courtyard
is revived
T.Daily Index 12/8/2010 p.1 Six Tacoma
schools added to historic register (il)
(Catalog)371.01 OL8F p.127,128,137,138 (il)
(Catalog)371.62 C498R
TNT = Tacoma News Tribune
TDL = Tacoma Daily Ledger
T.Times = Tacoma Times
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