National Register of Historic Places
North Slope Historic District
Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington
The record
- Listed
- December 22, 2016
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- Area bounded by Division Ave., N. Grant Ave, N. Steele St., and N I St., Tacoma
- County
- Pierce
- State
- Washington
- Period of significance
- 1875 to 1974
- Contributing resources
- 698 buildings, 211 structures
- Coordinates
- 47.26389, -122.46058
- Reference number
- 03000160
The story
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North Slope Historic District is a historic district in Tacoma, Pierce County, covering the area bounded by Division Avenue, North Grant Avenue, North Steele Street and North I Street. It encompasses 698 contributing buildings and 211 contributing structures built between 1890 and 2002, in styles that include Craftsman, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival and American Foursquare.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with significance in architecture and community planning and development at the local level.
Physical character
Walls throughout the district are sided in wood, most often narrow horizontal siding, shingles or clapboard, with brick, stucco, vinyl and asbestos shingle appearing on some houses. Roofs are mostly gabled or hipped, sometimes with dormers or a brick chimney, and dressier houses carry decorative bracketed eaves, a two-story bay window or a Palladian window. The nomination names local architects who worked on the district's houses, among them Ambrose Russell, Charles A. Bartz, Andrew F. Snyder and George Cheetham. The district's resources also include a former electrical substation and a parking lot, plus one noncontributing building.
Historical context
Tacoma City Light acquired part of the site for a distribution yard in 1951, and the K Street Substation there was decommissioned in 1983 before Tacoma Power approved the property's sale for $30,000 in 2000. In 2002 a park in the district was dedicated to the memory of Valerie Sivinski.