Dieringer School - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Dieringer School - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Dieringer School buildings are the last remaining group associated with the Dieringer community. Constructed in 1921 and 1928 by Tacoma architect Emanuel J. Bresemann.Gene Grulich and Caroline Gallacci, Grulich Architecture and Planning Services; DIERENGER SCHOOL; National Register of Historic Places Registration Form; United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service; Washington, D.C.; April 14, 1997 As the community of Norwood, established on May 5, 1888, with Joseph C. Dieringer, its first postmaster. Dieringer, had a restaurant in Tacoma, before he moved to the Stuck River Valley in the 1880s. Dr. Charles H. Spinning, had been a physician in the 1860s at the Cushman Indian Agency on the Puyallup Reservation, provided the land for the Dieringer School. In 1892, the post office name was changed from Norwood to Dieringer to honor its first postmaster. Read more on Wikipedia
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