Comfort Station for Women


Status: Unbuilt

Created: October 1, 1910
Address: 625 COMMERCE ST, TACOMA


Three of eight technical drawings for a proposed but unbuilt Comfort Station for Women, created by Wilbur C. Raleigh on October, 1910. The design places the restroom on the south 7th street side of the Old City Hall building, with a small, covered doorway leading underground to the facilities. Wilbur C. Raleigh also designed the Shops and Stables building and acted as supervising engineer for the construction of the Murray Morgan and Puyallup River Bridges.


Technical Drawings:
Sheet 1
Sheet 4
Sheet 6

The box-shaped structure in the middle of South 10th street (on the left) is the entrance to Tacoma's below-street-level Women Only comfort station.
Detail of underground comfort station at 10th and Pacific which shares some similarities in design
Photo by Marvin D. Boland (BOLAND-B10776), 1924-08-22
Courtesy Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room