Stadium District - Tacoma, Washington

Address:Centered around Stadium High School
Tacoma, Washington

The Stadium District is home to many buildings of architectural significance. Stadium High School, for instance, was originally conceived as a grandiose seven-story hotel built in the style of a French chateau in 1891. It was later transformed into a high school. There is also the Stadium Bowl, located right next to the high school. The Stadium Bowl was the first stadium on the American West Coast and was visited by three different American presidents (Theodore Roosevelt, Warren Harding, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt), as well as Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey. Tacoma's Stadium District is also home to more than 100 turn-of-the-last-century mansions and stately homes that can be found in the area around the stadium, including the Rust Mansion, which dates back to 1905.