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Photograph of Landmark Convention Center
Photograph by Murderbike, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Masonic Temple Building-Temple Theater

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Landmark Convention Center in Tacoma, Washington, United States is located at 47 St. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.”

Wikipedia article Masonic Temple Building-Temple Theater, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Masonic Temple Building--Temple Theater - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 47 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, 98402
  • When was it listed? April 1993
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Movie Theaters in Washington State MPS
  • Census division. Tacoma
  • Architectural style. Art Deco
  • Architect. Ambrose J. Russell
  • National Register reference number. 93000357 - 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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Masonic Temple Building-Temple Theater in 2005, 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
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 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 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Masonic Temple Building-Temple Theater: 15 past producers, 2 plants. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Nickel, Arsenic, Aluminum, Contained or Metal. 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
(Facility) Asarco RefineryCopper, Nickel, ArsenicPlant
Tacoma Reduction PlantAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant1943
Christel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
County Line PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hylebus PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marshall Ave. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
McKinney PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sound Refining PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sprague & S. Tacoma Way PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this property

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tacoma, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1997Tornado (F1)Tacoma$150,000A weak tornado touched down in a south Tacoma neighborhood just east of I-5. A church suffered roof and beam damage and several trees were pushed over or snapped off. There were also some downed fences.
October 2015Heavy RainTacoma$50,000A landslide closed southbound Schuster Parkway in Tacoma on the afternoon of Oct 10th after a burst of heavy rain moved through Pierce County. The heavy rain and wind also caused sporadic power outages and some spinouts elsewhere in Pierce County. A part of I-705 was also closed at South 11th Street due to flooding. ||Runoff from the heavy rainfall overwhelmed drainage systems near Tacoma's Stadium High School resulting water and debris running through the campus and tumbling into and flooding the football field.
September 2013Heavy RainTacoma$50,000Heavy rain inundated more than 60 units in a mini storage business in Tacoma.|Tacomas environmental services crews responded to 76 calls of flooding due to heavy rain.

Every storm 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
Henry Drum House0.1 miles1977
Fire Alarm Station0.2 miles1986
Wright Park and Seymour Conservatory0.2 miles1976
Fire Station No. 10.2 miles1986
Walker Apartment Hotel0.2 miles1994
John F. Yuncker House0.3 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000357 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.