The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Fircrest was officially incorporated on September 19, 1925. Like its neighbor University Place, it is a middle-class suburb of Tacoma. The community was developed by Edward Bowes, who later gained fame as the host of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour radio talent show. The town attempted to associate itself with academia by naming a number of its streets after universities (e.g. Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, Vassar, Stanford) and was originally known as Regents Park in a reference to the regents of a university. Some other streets (e.g. Bowes Drive, Spring Street, and Ramsdell Street) were named after those involved in the initial development.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fircrest’s history is told.
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Fircrest, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Fircrest is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Fircrest has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Charles and Mary Louise Curran House in University Place, 2.2 miles away.
Fircrest and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.