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Marvin D. Boland Collection BOLAND-B24357
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Title
Marvin
D
.
Boland
Collection
BOLAND-B24357
Description
This
is
how the
Merit
Building
,
315
So
.
11th
St.
,
appeared
near
the
close
of
1931
.
Built
in
1909
,
it
housed
the
Merit
Hotel
(new
in
1915)
and the
Hollywood
Apparel
Shop
,
Miller
Furs
, and the
Olympic
Dairy
Store
&
Ice
Cream
Parlor
. The
Rhodes
Bros
.
Department
Store
is
on the
right
and the
Market
Street
Drug
Store
on the
left
of the
business
block
. The
primary
tenant
, the
Hotel
Merit
,
opened
in
November
of
1915
in its
location
near
Market
St
.
It
contained
70
rooms
newly
furnished
in
mahogany
and
oak
and
hot
and
cold
water
in
each
room
. The
small
hotel
furnished
its
lobby
in
wicket
and its
smoking
room
,
located
just
off
the
lobby
, in
oak
and
leather
.
H.K
.
Slauter
was the
hotel's
proprietor
. He was a
former
salesman
with the
Suter
Jewelry
store
in
Seattle
.
(Tacoma
Sunday
Ledger
,
12-5-15
,
p
.
28)
Subjects
Merit Hotel (Tacoma)
Hotels--Tacoma--1930-1940
Merit Building (Tacoma)
Hollywood Apparel Shop (Tacoma)
Miller's Furs (Tacoma)
Olympic Dairy (Tacoma)
Rhodes Brothers Department Store (Tacoma)
Commercial streets--Tacoma--1930-1940
Image Date
1931-12-30
Decade
1930s
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Jpeg Image
Print type
8x10"
Local identifer
0\38808.jpg
Collection
Marvin D. Boland Collection
Series
Marvin D. Boland Collection BOLAND
Address
315 S 11TH ST, TACOMA
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