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Goodrich Silvertown Building, 1955 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Pierce County, WA

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Goodrich Silvertown Building, 1955 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Pierce County, WA

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Significance: The Goodrich Silvertown Building is significant as an intact example of a type of commercial structure which combined the exuberance of the Art Deco architectural style with advanced construction technology to provide a functional space for servicing the booming automotive market which developed in the 1910s and 1920s. It bears witness to the transition in Tacoma from a rail-oriented transportation system to an automotive one. The Goodrich building also exhibits, in the use of space spanning bow trusses, the desire to create large unobstructed work areas for the servicing of motorized vehicles.
Survey number: HABS WA-158
Building/structure dates: 1930 Initial Construction

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Date

1930 - 1980
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
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Location

pierce county47.24438, -122.43639
Google Map of 47.2443767, -122.4363899
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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