For the last couple decades, the Bostwick has been home to a variety of coffee shops on the ground floor.
It was the summer of 1889, and Tacoma was in chaos. The commercial district of its main rival, Seattle, had just burned to the ground, and Tacoma was emerging as the economic hub of the Northwest.
The city’s population had already increased by over 3,000 percent in just under a decade, from 1,098 residents in 1880 to around 35,000, and now that the Washington Territory had acquired statehood, it was about to surge even more. In fact, so popular was the burgeoning city that a few years
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