Stadium High School - Tahoma Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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THE TAHOMA

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6 TAHOMA QE

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10 THE TAHOMA , Stadium ll'lliiglh Sfolhooll It was to be the best hotel in the West, for not only was a great deal of money, S750,000, to be spent in its completion, but it was to be erected in the most beautiful and scenic sur- roundings of all. It was to be bui'lt high on a cliff that over- looks the picturesque Puget Sound, with its numerous inlets and islands. In the background, which seemed just across the bay, to the west could be plainly seen the Alp-like Glympics, while to the southwest the high snowcovered peak, Mount Tacoma, jutted up from the Cascade range. It was named by the In- dians The Mountain That Was God because of its height and stateliness. Such were the wonderful prospects that confronted the Ta- coma Land Company and the Northern Pacific Railway officials, builders of that never-completed tourist hotel. Today the same scenes are viewed daily by the students of Stadium High School, for it is on this same site that the high school stands. 9 The hotel was begun in 1891 with plans for a seven-story structure. Work on the new building went on with great rapidity until the depression of 1893-94 was felt, then it began to slow up until in the year 1895 all action on erection of the building came to an end. The contractors and owners could not collect enough money to pay the workmen. So all the windows and openings were boarded up, the lumber and steel girders were put