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Photograph of Charles and Mary Louise Curran House
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Charles and Mary Louise Curran House

Built in 1955 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1955, modern architecture, by Robert Billsbrough Price.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listed as. Curran, Charles and Mary Louise, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 4009 Curran Ln., University Place, 98466
  • When was it listed? March 2012
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Tacoma
  • When was it built? 1955
  • Architectural style. modern architecture
  • Architect. Robert Billsbrough Price
  • National Register reference number. 12000088 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Charles and Mary Louise Curran House between 2005 and 2008, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTIMBERLAKE
6 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPILLMAN

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Charles and Mary Louise Curran House: 15 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Meadow Park Pit & MillLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holroyd Land PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lakewood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcneil Island Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sprague & S. Tacoma Way PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Steilacoom PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Custer School3.0 miles1987
Fort Steilacoom3.1 miles1977
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Ruins3.3 miles1992
Wollochet-Point Fosdick School3.4 miles1987
Fox Island School3.6 miles1987
Davidson House3.7 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000088 in Record Group 79.
Pierce CountyAll 215 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.