Historical Touring Map of Lakewood
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This project was funded with a BENEFITS of HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN LAKEWOOD Lakewood Lodging Tax Grant and Pierce HISTORICAL County Historical Preservation Grant Compiled by the Lakewood Landmarks Landmark Criteria Benefits for the Economic Benefits Environmental Benefits Heritage Advisory Board 2013 and 2015. And Responsibilities Property Owner for the Community • Re-using existing buildings eliminates For further information please To be considered “qualified” for tax • Special Tax Valuation: A local tax • Rehabilitation of historic buildings unnecessary landfill waste. In 1996 Touring Map incentives properties must be listed incentive program, reducing property creates more jobs and tax revenue than 35-38% of all landfill waste was from contact: www.cityoflakewood.us on the Lakewood Landmark Register. tax for 10 years for qualified, locally construction of new buildings or roads. construction and demolition debris. of LAKEWOOD, WA registered properties. • Demolishing a building 25’ wide by 120’ Criteria for placement on the register: A New Jersey study, Economic Impacts • Federal Investment Tax Credit: 20% of Historic Preservation, developed deep erases the recycling of 1,344,000 • The property must be 50 years old, or federal income tax credit for qualified conservative “recipes” for assessing the aluminum cans. a district that has resources more than income producing properties. economic impact of historic preservation. • Reusing buildings and materials has two 50 years old, • Studies show historic properties within For example, for every $1 million significant environmental benefits: it spares For further information on area dollars spent on nonresidential historic • Have retained integrity of location, historic districts have higher property the resources that would otherwise be used history and resources consult: rehabilitation 38.3 jobs, $1,302,000 to make new products, and it prevents the design, setting, materials, workmanship, appreciation value than comparables not www.historicfortsteilacoom.com feeling and association, and in historic districts. in income, and $202,000 in taxes is waste of resources that have already been generated. The same amount spent fashioned into products and structures. www.lakewoodhistorical.org • Significance based on: 1) association • Consideration in Land Use Actions under on new nonresidential construction • Investing in historic neighborhoods www.lakewood-chamber.com with events– broad patterns of Washington State Environmental Policy generates 36.1 jobs, $1,223,000 in results in less sprawl. Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room national, state, or local history, 2) Act review. income, and $189,000 in taxes. association with lives of persons New development requires the expansion www.tpl.lib.us • Use of special building code for • Rehabilitation results in more local and significant in national, state, or local of basic infrastructure and services such www.piercecountylibrary.org existing structures. jobs and business for local suppliers. history, 3) embodies distinctive as roads, water, sewage, utilities, and www.lakewoldgardens.org Historic Sites characteristics of a type, period, style, Economic Benefits of Due to the nature of rehabilitation work, it fire and police protection. In contrast, by www.fortlewismuseum.com or method of design, 4) contains relies on local craftspeople and suppliers. rehabilitating our historic neighborhoods www.mcchordairmuseum.org of the Heritage Tourism New construction involves more off-site information important in prehistory or and downtowns we experience growth assembling that uses fewer workers and without the corresponding increase in Lakewood Landmarks and history, or 5) is an outstanding work of The National Trust for Historic Preservation Lakes District is often done out-of-town or even out- expensive services and infrastructure. Heritage Advisory Board a designer or builder who has made a defines heritage tourism as “traveling to of-state. Of course, the income earned by Although services in historic areas may need substantial contribution to the arts. experience the places, artifacts, and activities that authentically represent the stories and these local workers and trades people has upgrading, it is certainly less expensive, less Responsibilities for registered properties people of the past and present.” a multiplier effect on the economy since damaging to the environment, and results in includes obtaining a certificate of those same workers and business owners less sprawl than expanding services to new • Heritage travelers spend more, do more, appropriateness before any alteration spend their money locally. areas on the urban fringe. and stay longer than other types of tourists. may be made to the character defining elements of the landmark that are • Visiting historic and cultural sites is second only to shopping for people on identified in the nomination form. “…I would suggest to you that any claim for rights that is not balanced with responsibilities removes the civility from vacation to heritage sites. civilization, and gives us an entitlement mentality as a nation of mere consumers of public services rather than a nation CITY OF LAKEWOOD • 1 in 3 international visitors to the US of citizens. A consumer has rights; a citizen has responsibilities that accompany those rights. Historic preservation is 6000 Main Street SW • Lakewood WA 98499 tours a historic or cultural attraction. a responsibility movement rather than rights movement. It is a movement that urges us toward the responsibility of (253) 589-2489 • www.cityoflakewood.us stewardship, not merely the right of ownership. Stewardship of our historic built environment, certainly; but stewardship of the meaning and memory of our communities manifested in those buildings as well.” The primary duty of the Board is to identify and actively encourage the conservation of the City’s historic resources by establishing CITY OF LAKEWOOD • 6000 Main Street SW • Lakewood WA 98499 and maintaining a register of historic landmarks, landmark sites, historic special review districts, and conservation districts; reviewing – Don Rypkema proposed changes to register properties; raising community awareness of the City’s history and historic resources; and serving as the (253) 589-2489 • www.cityoflakewood.us Nationally recognized expert in Economics City’s primary resource in matters of history, historic planning, and preservation, as provided for in this chapter (LMC 2.48.035) TIMELINE of HISTORICAL EVENTS IN LAKEWOOD The Hudson’s Bay Company Byrd Cemetery Boatman- Rhodesleigh brings a group of settlers Fort from the Red River Valley Ainsworth House in Canada. Fort Nisqually cannot supply the settlers Steilacoom with the supplies they were promised in Canada. Willis Boatman Rhodesleigh is completed, Park Most settlers leave. A few Washington becomes constructs a an English Tudor country stay and one builds a cabin a territory. hunting cabin. Washington Territory John Ainsworth adds on to estate for Henry A. Rhodes. Colonial Center is complete, Washington State where the Fort Steilacoom buys the Fort Steilacoom Boatman’s hunting cabin Villa Madera (Villa Carmen) one of the first planned leases the Western State buildings are today. All of The Puget Sound Byrd Cemetery is Chief Leschi is buildings from the Federal to make the Boatman- built on 18 acres of virgin Tacoma Speedway fails Mueller Harkins Hanger is suburban shopping centers Hospital farm to Pierce the Red River settlers are area becomes established and used tried for murder Fort Steilacoom is Government, and they Ainsworth House look as it Thornewood (Castle) Cole/Smith house evergreen forest on the and becomes Mueller constructed to service the west of the Mississippi, Norton Clapp calls County to be used as gone after a couple of years. American Territory for pioneers until 1882. and hanged. decommissioned. become a mental hospital. does today. is constructed. is constructed. shores of Gravelly Lake. Harkins Airport. Tacoma Airport. including Lakewood Theater. Rhodesleigh home. a park. 1841 1844 1846 1849 1853 1855 1858 1861 1868 1869 1870 1874 1878 1889 1911 1912 1914 1917 1919 1920 1922 1924 1929 1932 1937 1938 1939 1946-53 1965 1996 2006 Joseph Heath moves into In May a group of Indian Wars begin. Fort The Civil War begins. The Federal Government The Federal Government Washington Tacoma Speedway holds its Hopkins House is Tacoma Speedway and Woodbrook Hunt Club Custer School, also known Little Church on the Prairie Chauncey Griggs obtains Lakewood takes the abandoned Red River Snoqualmie Indians come Steilacoom offers haven Federal soldiers are called buys the Hudson Bay donates the former military becomes a state. first race on 5 mile, then 3 constructed as a summer Indianopolis are the only is established. as the “Little Red School is created out of an old preliminary drawings over management Valley settler’s cabin. to Fort Nisqually to check to settlers threatened by back east. The fort is staffed Company assets in reservation to Washington ½ mile, then 2 mile tracks. retreat, typical of lakeside two Class A tracks in the House” is constructed. grocery store building. for a house by Frank of Fort Steilacoom His expensive lifestyle in on a Chief’s daughter living Indian war parties. by volunteers. the Northwest. Territory for use as an John Flett builds a house. retreats on American Lake. country, Tacoma’s is the faster Lloyd Wright. The house Park from England forced his family with a fort Indian. A gun “asylum for the insane