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October 27, 2011

Fire-damaged pagoda redesigned for another 100 years

  • Tacoma is spending about $3 million to restore the Point Defiance Park building and bring it up to code.
    • By SAM BENNETT
    Special to the Journal

    Photo courtesy of Metro Parks Tacoma [enlarge]
    BCRA is using historic photos as a guide to the pagoda’s redesign.

    When architect Luther Twichell designed the pagoda in Tacoma's Point Defiance Park, he and supporters of the building envisioned a structure that would last four generations.


     
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